System Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Preston

System Integration Testing (SIT)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring System Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.83% 5.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 5.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.88% - -
75th Percentile £612 £419 -
90th Percentile £647 £430 -
Lancashire median daily rate £548 £400 -
% change year-on-year +36.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £72.66 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

System Integration Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 71 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.71% 91.03% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 47 23
10th Percentile £286 £358 £223
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £475 £585
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -18.80% +33.71%
75th Percentile £652 £630 £648
90th Percentile £712 £674 £930
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 18
10th Percentile £37.25 £23.32 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £40.83 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +70.24% +154.20% -65.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £47.12 £22.99
90th Percentile £80.00 £60.39 £35.16
Lancashire median hourly rate £61.57 £44.09 £35.36
% change year-on-year +39.65% +24.69% -23.43%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing System Integration Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston.

System Integration Testing job vacancy trend in Preston

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing System Integration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing System Integration Testing

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing in Preston over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in Preston

System Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing System Integration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing System Integration Testing

System Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Learning Management System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Project Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP