Integration Testing Contracts in Reading

Integration Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Integration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Integration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 54 71
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +26
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 13 37 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.18% 3.10% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 3.44% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 8
10th Percentile £535 £515 £543
25th Percentile £556 £594 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £735 £721
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +1.94% +15.36%
75th Percentile - £756 £728
90th Percentile £649 £773 £748
Berkshire median daily rate £588 £681 £721
% change year-on-year -13.76% -5.51% +69.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in Reading

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in Reading

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in Reading

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (7.69%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.69%) OCI
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) BGP
1 1 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (7.69%) MPLS
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
3 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (7.69%) SAP EWM Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) .NET
1 6 (46.15%) CSS
1 6 (46.15%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) NETCONF
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) RESTCONF
4 1 (7.69%) XML
4 1 (7.69%) YAML
4 1 (7.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) CentOS
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Unit Testing
3 7 (53.85%) System Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (46.15%) LLM
4 6 (46.15%) Software Testing
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 5 (38.46%) SDLC
6 4 (30.77%) Channel Management
7 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
7 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
7 3 (23.08%) SOA
7 3 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
7 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 2 (15.38%) Data Mapping
8 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
8 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) C#
3 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) ISEB
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) OpenAI
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Snow