Integration Testing Contracts in the South East

Integration Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 119 153 173
Rank change year-on-year +34 +20 +26
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 40 52 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 0.94% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.10% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 35 22
10th Percentile £375 £353 £410
25th Percentile £425 £550 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +12.50% +13.21%
75th Percentile £592 £746 £721
90th Percentile £600 £775 £737
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.14% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £53.63 - £67.75
25th Percentile £55.31 - £70.94
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £59.69 - -
90th Percentile £61.38 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +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 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in the South East

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the South East

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in the South East

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 1 May 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 +26 25 £500 -25.93% 12
Berkshire +6 16 £588 -13.76% 7
Hampshire +35 15 £531 -15.00% 13
Buckinghamshire - 7 £375 - 5
Surrey +18 2 - - 7
Oxfordshire +6 2 £525 +23.53%
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 3 (7.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.50%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.00%) PowerApps
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.00%) AWS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) npm
7 1 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 3 (7.50%) SNMP
3 1 (2.50%) BGP
3 1 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (5.00%) MS Access
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Git
2 7 (17.50%) JIRA
3 4 (10.00%) Robot Framework
4 3 (7.50%) GoogleTest
4 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (5.00%) QARun
5 2 (5.00%) WinRunner
6 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.50%) JMeter
6 1 (2.50%) Mocha
6 1 (2.50%) Postman
6 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Consultant
5 4 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Test Leader
6 3 (7.50%) Project Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Project Leader
6 3 (7.50%) Senior
6 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Automation Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) CSS
1 9 (22.50%) HTML
2 6 (15.00%) .NET
3 5 (12.50%) Web Services
4 3 (7.50%) Kafka
4 3 (7.50%) Node.js
4 3 (7.50%) REST
5 2 (5.00%) Middleware
5 2 (5.00%) SOAP
6 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.50%) Flutter
6 1 (2.50%) JSON
6 1 (2.50%) Laravel
6 1 (2.50%) NETCONF
6 1 (2.50%) OAuth
6 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.50%) Playwright
6 1 (2.50%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (2.50%) XML
6 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.50%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.50%) EPoS
2 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Agile
2 18 (45.00%) Software Testing
3 12 (30.00%) Validation
4 11 (27.50%) DevOps
4 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (27.50%) System Integration Testing
4 11 (27.50%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.00%) SDLC
5 8 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 8 (20.00%) Workflow
6 7 (17.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (17.50%) System Testing
6 7 (17.50%) Waterfall
7 6 (15.00%) LLM
7 6 (15.00%) Logistics
7 6 (15.00%) Test Planning
7 6 (15.00%) Test Strategy
7 6 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) SQL
2 10 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) C#
4 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) VB
7 1 (2.50%) Dart
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) ISEB
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Def Stans
3 2 (5.00%) GDPR
3 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.50%) Firmware
3 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Rancher
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) OpenAI
3 5 (12.50%) Oracle
4 4 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix
5 2 (5.00%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Snow