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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 137 149
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +42
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 30 27 49
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.68% 0.80% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.90% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 31
10th Percentile £363 £348 £400
25th Percentile £420 £416 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £667
90th Percentile £605 - £700
England median daily rate £483 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -12.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £84.75
% change year-on-year +8.00% -26.25% +30.38%

All Process & 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 3,706 3,015 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 89.25% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,439 1,864 2,788
10th Percentile £231 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +0.98%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £614
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 116 255
10th Percentile £14.83 £19.64 £18.20
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.93 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.69 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.78% -22.38% +22.22%
75th Percentile £53.46 £62.50 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.38 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Integration Testing job vacancy trend 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 15 January 2026.

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 15 January 2026. 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 -8 13 £461 -22.44% 24
Berkshire -5 12 £461 -23.17% 10
Hampshire -12 12 £500 +11.11% 8
West Sussex -7 3 £605 +34.33% 7
Middlesex - 2 £552 - 4
Buckinghamshire -5 1 £375 -17.81% 7
Integration Testing
England

Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) OCI
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.33%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) BGP
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) MPLS
1 3 (10.00%) OSPF
1 3 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (6.67%) Postman
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.33%) Selenium
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (10.00%) Finance
7 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Test Manager
2 5 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) IP Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Agile Test Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Database Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Test Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) SOAP
2 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) Play Framework
2 2 (6.67%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) ONNX
3 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.33%) Swagger
3 1 (3.33%) WSDL
3 1 (3.33%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) SCADA
3 1 (3.33%) State Machine
3 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 9 (30.00%) Validation
4 8 (26.67%) ERP
4 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 8 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 7 (23.33%) Scenario Testing
5 7 (23.33%) Test Management
5 7 (23.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.67%) Agile Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Business Continuity
7 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Python
1 4 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) C#
2 2 (6.67%) Java
2 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Scala
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 5 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) OCP
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Cilium
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.33%) Rsyslog
2 1 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 5 (16.67%) Workday
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Nokia
3 3 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.33%) SAP