System Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in the South East

System Integration Testing (SIT)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring System Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 163 186
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 29 6 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.67% 0.16% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.18% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 20
10th Percentile £397 £402 £411
25th Percentile £475 £405 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.91% -5.95% +45.83%
75th Percentile £639 £603 £638
90th Percentile £648 £631 £716
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.75
Median hourly rate - - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £77.50 £56.18
% change year-on-year -19.35% +37.96% -2.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

System 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 3,711 3,307 4,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.31% 88.12% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,428 2,059 2,912
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +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 370 125 234
10th Percentile £14.73 £19.33 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £22.38 £47.78 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.16% -10.69% +42.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.43 £65.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

System Integration Testing job vacancy trend in the South East

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the South East

System Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

System 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 System Integration Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Thames Valley +10 22 £566 +6.59% 6
Berkshire - 20 £575 - 5
Hampshire - 4 £569 -
West Sussex -6 3 £475 -17.39%
Buckinghamshire +5 2 £375 -29.41% 1
Kent - 1 - -
System Integration Testing
England

System 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 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 17 (58.62%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
1 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (24.14%) OCI
2 7 (24.14%) SaaS
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Metadata
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Billing
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Lead
2 10 (34.48%) Service Transition Leader
3 4 (13.79%) Cutover Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Test Leader
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Implementation Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Implementation Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Test Programme Manager
6 1 (3.45%) UAT Lead
6 1 (3.45%) UAT Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Web Applications Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Web Applications Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Web Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.45%) ADO
2 1 (3.45%) Playwright
2 1 (3.45%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) User Acceptance Testing
2 14 (48.28%) ERP
3 11 (37.93%) ITIL
3 11 (37.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (34.48%) ITSM
4 10 (34.48%) Knowledge Transfer
4 10 (34.48%) Service Management
5 9 (31.03%) DevOps
6 7 (24.14%) Migration
6 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (24.14%) Test Management
7 6 (20.69%) Data Migration
7 6 (20.69%) Integration Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Cloud Operations
8 5 (17.24%) Target Operating Model
9 4 (13.79%) Agile
9 4 (13.79%) Defect Management
9 4 (13.79%) Technology Transformation
9 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
9 4 (13.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) C#
1 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (72.41%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) HP
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce