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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 133 156
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 +45
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 36 40 51
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.83% 1.06% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.21% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 34
10th Percentile £335 £404 £291
25th Percentile £381 £538 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +5.73% -5.42%
75th Percentile £578 £682 £655
90th Percentile £605 £716 £694
England median daily rate £487 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.45% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - +267.65% -
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -15.54% +13.85%

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 3,725 3,304 4,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.55% 87.83% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,434 2,050 2,922
10th Percentile £223 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 129 234
10th Percentile £14.67 £19.19 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
Median % change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.73 £65.96
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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
Hampshire -7 15 £525 - 11
Thames Valley -17 14 £440 -31.38% 11
Berkshire -21 11 £461 -28.80% 7
Buckinghamshire +7 3 £325 -38.82% 3
West Sussex -6 3 £605 +34.33% 3
Surrey -3 2 - - 4
Middlesex - 2 £552 -
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.78%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
3 5 (13.89%) OCI
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
4 2 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) BGP
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
1 3 (8.33%) MPLS
1 3 (8.33%) OSPF
1 3 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.78%) HTTP
2 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (5.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.78%) Selenium
4 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 6 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Developer
1 6 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Test Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) IP Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Test Leader
5 2 (5.56%) Ada Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Agile Test Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Database Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Integration Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Integration Test Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Test Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) SOAP
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) Play Framework
2 2 (5.56%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) RESTful
2 2 (5.56%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.78%) ONNX
3 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.78%) Swagger
3 1 (2.78%) WSDL
3 1 (2.78%) XML
3 1 (2.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) SCADA
4 1 (2.78%) State Machine
4 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (38.89%) Agile
3 13 (36.11%) Test Automation
4 12 (33.33%) DevOps
5 11 (30.56%) Test Management
6 10 (27.78%) Software Testing
6 10 (27.78%) Validation
7 9 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
8 8 (22.22%) ERP
8 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (19.44%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (19.44%) Test Strategy
10 6 (16.67%) Migration
10 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 6 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (13.89%) Business Continuity
11 5 (13.89%) Data Migration
11 5 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) C#
2 4 (11.11%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Ada
3 2 (5.56%) Java
3 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Scala
3 2 (5.56%) VB
4 1 (2.78%) C
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) ISTQB
3 5 (13.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) OCP
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) HP ALM
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Rsyslog
3 2 (5.56%) SCOM
4 1 (2.78%) Cilium
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
2 5 (13.89%) Workday
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) HP
3 3 (8.33%) Nokia
3 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.78%) SAP