Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in the South West

Integration Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 113 111
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +33
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 26 12 39
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.13% 0.56% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.65% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 20
10th Percentile £400 £400 £496
25th Percentile £463 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £619 £720
90th Percentile £558 £628 £726
England median daily rate £487 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.45% - -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £64.25 - -
25th Percentile - - £23.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £44.43
75th Percentile £73.75 - £68.25
90th Percentile - - £74.10
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,930 1,849 2,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.06% 86.77% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 1,137 1,758
10th Percentile £263 £284 £300
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £727 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 130 264
10th Percentile £15.25 £19.41 £20.65
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.63 £45.75
Median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Integration Testing job vacancy trend in the South West

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the South West

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol +11 17 £475 -18.98% 4
Dorset - 4 £540 - 1
Wiltshire -11 3 £550 -6.38%
Gloucestershire -5 1 - - 1
Somerset - 1 - -
Integration Testing
England

Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Simulink
1 4 (15.38%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
1 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.85%) GCP
2 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) 4G
2 3 (11.54%) 5G
3 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
1 1 (3.85%) Big Data
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.85%) Impala
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
1 1 (3.85%) Neo4j
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
1 1 (3.85%) Tableau
1 1 (3.85%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Rational Rhapsody
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (15.38%) Rational Team Concert
3 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (19.23%) Military
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Aerospace
2 4 (15.38%) Aviation
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Law
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) C++ Software Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Engineering Specialist
2 3 (11.54%) Test Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Test Leader
4 1 (3.85%) Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) QA Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Senior
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) System Verification Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) NLTK
2 1 (3.85%) Playwright
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) Shiny
2 1 (3.85%) SOAP
2 1 (3.85%) SpaCy
2 1 (3.85%) Tidyverse
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) CUDA
2 3 (11.54%) PKI
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) UML
3 5 (19.23%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
4 4 (15.38%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 4 (15.38%) Mathematics
4 4 (15.38%) Requirements Management
4 4 (15.38%) System Testing
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Analysis
4 4 (15.38%) Test Scripting
5 3 (11.54%) Agile
5 3 (11.54%) Asset Management
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) Cryptography
5 3 (11.54%) Service Management
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) C++
2 5 (19.23%) C
2 5 (19.23%) MATLAB
3 4 (15.38%) Ada
3 4 (15.38%) Fortran
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Python
6 1 (3.85%) Cypher
6 1 (3.85%) Embedded C++
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) R
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 13 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) NCSC
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Check_MK
2 2 (7.69%) Grafana
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) MathWorks
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco
2 3 (11.54%) Fortinet
2 3 (11.54%) Juniper
2 3 (11.54%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) NVIDIA
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce