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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 161 170
Rank change year-on-year +43 +9 +36
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 36 43 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.21% 0.76% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.92% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 20
10th Percentile £340 £313 £324
25th Percentile £389 £594 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £613
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +10.20% +16.11%
75th Percentile £550 £756 £721
90th Percentile £603 £775 £739
England median daily rate £463 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -11.90% +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 £72.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% -20.69% +20.83%

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 2,707 4,681 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.36% 83.11% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,738 2,707 3,450
10th Percentile £250 £260 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £504
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.29% +0.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 451 217
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.14
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.26 £22.16
Median hourly rate £26.53 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.15% -9.52% +141.77%
75th Percentile £61.71 £62.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.85% - +50.00%

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 June 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 June 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 +18 22 £450 -38.78% 124
Hampshire +39 16 £550 -12.00% 50
Berkshire +9 12 £550 -25.17% 76
Buckinghamshire - 9 £375 - 32
Surrey +20 1 - - 28
Oxfordshire - 1 £475 - 17
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 5 (13.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.78%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 4 (11.11%) PowerApps
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.56%) OCI
6 1 (2.78%) AWS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) npm
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (8.33%) HTTP
2 3 (8.33%) SNMP
3 2 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) MS Access
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Robot Framework
3 3 (8.33%) GoogleTest
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.56%) QARun
4 2 (5.56%) WinRunner
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Lead
3 7 (19.44%) Test Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Consultant
4 4 (11.11%) Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Project Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Project Leader
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Test Leader
6 2 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Integration Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Integration Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Web Services
2 4 (11.11%) CSS
2 4 (11.11%) HTML
3 3 (8.33%) Kafka
3 3 (8.33%) Middleware
3 3 (8.33%) Node.js
3 3 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (5.56%) OAuth
4 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.56%) SOAP
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.78%) Flutter
5 1 (2.78%) Laravel
5 1 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (2.78%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.78%) EPoS
3 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Agile
2 14 (38.89%) Software Testing
3 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (36.11%) System Integration Testing
3 13 (36.11%) Validation
4 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 9 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 8 (22.22%) DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) Logistics
7 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 7 (19.44%) Test Planning
8 6 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (16.67%) Workflow
9 5 (13.89%) Data Transformation
9 5 (13.89%) SDLC
9 5 (13.89%) SOA
10 4 (11.11%) API Integration
10 4 (11.11%) Data Protection
10 4 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) PL/SQL
3 4 (11.11%) C#
3 4 (11.11%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) VB
5 2 (5.56%) C++
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) Dart
6 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) ISEB
4 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) Def Stans
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Rancher
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) VMware
4 3 (8.33%) Citrix
5 2 (5.56%) SAP
5 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.78%) Snow