System Integration Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

System Integration Testing (SIT)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring System Integration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited System Integration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 134 137
Rank change year-on-year +43 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 11 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.47% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 4
10th Percentile £325 £403 £323
25th Percentile £375 £413 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +9.68% -32.02%
75th Percentile £463 £545 £414
90th Percentile £550 £577 £439
South East median daily rate £425 £500 £473
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.82% -5.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for System Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

System Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for System Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

System Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for System Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

System 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 System Integration Testing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +20 6 £375 -
Berkshire +27 4 £550 +22.22% 7
Oxfordshire +5 1 £475 +11.76% 3
System Integration Testing
South East

System 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 2 (18.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
2 2 (18.18%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (18.18%) MS Access
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) QARun
1 2 (18.18%) WinRunner
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Test Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 3 (27.27%) Test Leader
4 2 (18.18%) Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Integration Testing
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Validation
3 6 (54.55%) Logistics
3 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (54.55%) Waterfall
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Test Planning
4 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
6 3 (27.27%) SDLC
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
7 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Microservices
7 2 (18.18%) Migration
7 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (18.18%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
2 2 (18.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) ISEB
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix