Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in the South East

Integration Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 150 154
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 +74
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 38 34 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 0.74% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.90% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 28
10th Percentile £325 £446 £286
25th Percentile £349 £534 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £692 £538
Median % change year-on-year -33.19% +28.65% +2.49%
75th Percentile £570 £735 £678
90th Percentile £694 £765 £713
England median daily rate £490 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £53.25 - £51.33
25th Percentile £54.38 - £69.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £71.25
75th Percentile £58.75 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £51.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +41.46% -26.79% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,105 3,792 4,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.17% 82.60% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,936 2,272 3,332
10th Percentile £220 £255 £250
25th Percentile £379 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.65%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 254 256
10th Percentile £13.35 £16.08 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £31.44 £24.07
Median hourly rate £21.25 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.95% +9.24% +63.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.86 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in the South East

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Integration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the South East

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Integration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +5 19 £425 -40.56% 5
Hampshire +22 16 £550 +12.82% 5
Buckinghamshire +16 11 £325 -38.82%
Berkshire +5 8 £575 -19.80% 4
Surrey +9 5 £688 +71.88% 1
West Sussex -5 1 - -
Integration Testing
England

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (10.53%) Confluence
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.26%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.53%) SaaS
4 3 (7.89%) OCI
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.63%) AWS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.63%) npm
6 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) HTTP
2 3 (7.89%) SNMP
2 3 (7.89%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (7.89%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (7.89%) MS Access
4 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) JIRA
2 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.89%) Git
3 3 (7.89%) GoogleTest
3 3 (7.89%) Robot Framework
4 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.26%) QARun
4 2 (5.26%) WinRunner
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (2.63%) Postman
5 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.63%) Automotive
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Test Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Consultant
4 5 (13.16%) Integration Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Integration Test Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Test Leader
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Ada Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Ada Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Integration Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) SAP EWM Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Test Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Web Services
2 5 (13.16%) SOAP
3 4 (10.53%) WebdriverIO
4 3 (7.89%) CSS
4 3 (7.89%) HTML
4 3 (7.89%) Middleware
4 3 (7.89%) Node.js
5 2 (5.26%) .NET
5 2 (5.26%) REST
5 2 (5.26%) RESTful
6 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.63%) OAuth
6 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.63%) ONNX
6 1 (2.63%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.63%) Swagger
6 1 (2.63%) WSDL
6 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) SCADA
3 1 (2.63%) State Machine
3 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Unix
4 1 (2.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) System Integration Testing
2 16 (42.11%) Test Automation
3 15 (39.47%) Agile
3 15 (39.47%) Software Testing
4 14 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (34.21%) DevOps
5 13 (34.21%) Validation
6 12 (31.58%) Waterfall
7 11 (28.95%) Logistics
8 10 (26.32%) Test Planning
9 9 (23.68%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (21.05%) Data Migration
10 8 (21.05%) Defect Management
10 8 (21.05%) Migration
11 7 (18.42%) Scenario Testing
11 7 (18.42%) SDLC
11 7 (18.42%) Test Management
12 5 (13.16%) End-to-End Testing
13 4 (10.53%) Acceptance Criteria
13 4 (10.53%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) SQL
2 9 (23.68%) C#
3 6 (15.79%) VB
4 4 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 4 (10.53%) Python
5 2 (5.26%) Ada
5 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) C
6 1 (2.63%) C++
6 1 (2.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) OCP
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Firmware
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) HP ALM
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Rsyslog
2 2 (5.26%) SCOM
3 1 (2.63%) Cilium
3 1 (2.63%) Rancher
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle
2 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Citrix
3 3 (7.89%) SAP
4 2 (5.26%) HP
4 2 (5.26%) IFS
4 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.63%) Snow
5 1 (2.63%) VMware