System Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

System Integration Testing (SIT)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring System Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 118 120
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -37
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 15 4 23
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.87% 0.18% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.21% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 15
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £325 £406 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -27.17% +59.72%
75th Percentile £550 £491 -
90th Percentile - £586 -
South East median daily rate £400 £419 £520
% change year-on-year -4.48% -19.47% +44.44%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £88.50

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 1,565 1,877 2,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.36% 86.34% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 1,070 1,613
10th Percentile £268 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 75 92
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.58 £16.44
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.63 £25.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.05 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +6.56% +182.97%
75th Percentile £46.70 £62.85 £68.44
90th Percentile £72.55 £75.09 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £58.49 £54.37
% change year-on-year -64.56% +7.58% +55.34%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

System Integration Testing job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing System Integration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing System Integration Testing

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 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the Thames Valley

System Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing System Integration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing System Integration Testing

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 16 October 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
Berkshire +24 9 £550 +29.41% 6
Buckinghamshire +4 6 £325 -21.21%
System Integration Testing
South East

System Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.67%) Metadata
3 1 (6.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Billing
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Integration Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Integration Test Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Cutover Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Implementation Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Implementation Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Web Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Web Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
1 4 (26.67%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Integration Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Logistics
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Test Management
3 5 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 5 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 4 (26.67%) Defect Management
4 4 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Data Mapping
5 3 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
1 4 (26.67%) VB
2 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow