Integration Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Integration Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 91 112
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +62
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 20 38 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.20% 1.64% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.94% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 34 10
10th Percentile - £614 £308
25th Percentile £325 £640 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £715 £613
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% +16.73% +6.52%
75th Percentile £550 £743 £709
90th Percentile £673 £765 £721
South East median daily rate £475 £675 £538
% change year-on-year -29.63% +25.46% +2.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,535 1,958 2,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.14% 84.54% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,111 1,724
10th Percentile £300 £263 £310
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £518
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.22% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 114 85
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.90
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.00 £21.65
Median hourly rate £24.00 £56.34 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.40% +12.69% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £66.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £85.65 £75.50
South East median hourly rate £21.32 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.82% +14.70% +100.00%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Buckinghamshire +17 11 £325 -50.00% 5
Berkshire -10 8 £600 -16.08% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 £475 - 4
Integration Testing
South East

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (10.00%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (15.00%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (15.00%) MS Access
4 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) QARun
2 2 (10.00%) WinRunner
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Test Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Integration Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Integration Test Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Consultant
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Test Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Test Leader
6 2 (10.00%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) SAP EWM Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) HR Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Integration Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Programme Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Web Services
2 4 (20.00%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (15.00%) Middleware
4 2 (10.00%) OAuth
4 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
2 13 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (60.00%) Waterfall
4 11 (55.00%) Logistics
5 10 (50.00%) Agile
5 10 (50.00%) Test Planning
6 9 (45.00%) DevOps
6 9 (45.00%) Software Testing
6 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (40.00%) Validation
8 7 (35.00%) SDLC
9 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
9 6 (30.00%) Defect Management
9 6 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (30.00%) Migration
9 6 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (25.00%) Data Transformation
10 5 (25.00%) SOA
10 5 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) VB
3 5 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle
3 3 (15.00%) Citrix
4 2 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Snow