Integration Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 224 284 282
Rank change year-on-year +60 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 112 116 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 0.56% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.66% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 72 123
10th Percentile £356 £313 £285
25th Percentile £425 £486 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £520
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% +9.47%
75th Percentile £588 £736 £600
90th Percentile £638 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 18
10th Percentile £52.50 - £41.30
25th Percentile £55.31 £56.25 £52.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -20.69% +20.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £66.00 £75.90
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +34 40 £500 -25.93% 62
North of England +30 24 £463 -15.91% 22
South West +55 15 £513 -14.58% 19
North West +21 14 £450 -21.74% 12
Midlands +17 12 £463 -11.90% 26
Scotland +10 12 £463 -23.77% 10
Yorkshire +14 9 £600 +27.66% 8
East of England +28 7 £550 +76.00% 28
West Midlands +7 7 £461 -15.17% 17
East Midlands +12 5 £463 -7.50% 9
Northern Ireland -11 1 £550 +10.00% 6
North East - 1 £363 - 2
Wales - 1 £525 - 5
Integration Testing
UK

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.68%) JBoss
2 3 (2.68%) OpenROAD
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.89%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.89%) Appian
3 1 (0.89%) Mule
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.89%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.68%) SAP LE
1 3 (2.68%) SAP WM
2 2 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.89%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.89%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.89%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.89%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.00%) Azure
2 18 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.93%) AWS
4 6 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (5.36%) Power Automate
4 6 (5.36%) Slack
5 5 (4.46%) SaaS
6 4 (3.57%) GitHub
6 4 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.57%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.68%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.79%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.79%) GCP
8 2 (1.79%) Serverless
9 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.89%) npm
9 1 (0.89%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.36%) HTTP
2 4 (3.57%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (2.68%) SNMP
4 1 (0.89%) BGP
4 1 (0.89%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) Intranet
4 1 (0.89%) MPLS
4 1 (0.89%) SSL
4 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (7.14%) MySQL
2 8 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.79%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.79%) MS Access
5 2 (1.79%) ObjectStore
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (23.21%) Git
2 23 (20.54%) JIRA
3 11 (9.82%) Selenium
4 9 (8.04%) Cucumber
5 8 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.14%) JUnit
6 7 (6.25%) Jasmine
6 7 (6.25%) JMeter
7 5 (4.46%) GitLab
7 5 (4.46%) LoadRunner
8 4 (3.57%) Robot Framework
9 3 (2.68%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.68%) GoogleTest
9 3 (2.68%) Postman
9 3 (2.68%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.79%) QARun
10 2 (1.79%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.79%) TestRail
10 2 (1.79%) WinRunner
General
1 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.07%) Finance
2 18 (16.07%) Public Sector
3 16 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.36%) Retail
4 6 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.46%) Banking
6 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.89%) Back Office
7 1 (0.89%) Electronics
7 1 (0.89%) Military
7 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (27.68%) Developer
2 20 (17.86%) Analyst
3 17 (15.18%) Senior
4 16 (14.29%) Lead
5 11 (9.82%) Senior Developer
5 11 (9.82%) Test Analyst
6 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Consultant
7 8 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (6.25%) Test Leader
9 6 (5.36%) Project Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Project Leader
9 6 (5.36%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Oracle Analyst
10 5 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (4.46%) Tester
11 4 (3.57%) Integration Consultant
11 4 (3.57%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) .NET
2 12 (10.71%) CSS
2 12 (10.71%) HTML
3 11 (9.82%) RESTful
4 10 (8.93%) Kafka
5 8 (7.14%) Spring
5 8 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 7 (6.25%) OpenAPI
6 7 (6.25%) React
6 7 (6.25%) Spring Batch
6 7 (6.25%) Spring Security
6 7 (6.25%) Swagger
7 6 (5.36%) REST
8 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.46%) Web Services
9 4 (3.57%) Node.js
9 4 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (2.68%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 3 (2.68%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (2.68%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.68%) EPoS
6 2 (1.79%) CMDB
6 2 (1.79%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.18%) Linux
2 7 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.57%) Unix
3 4 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.89%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.89%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.61%) Agile
2 40 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 32 (28.57%) DevOps
4 31 (27.68%) CI/CD
5 29 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (25.89%) Software Testing
6 24 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 23 (20.54%) Validation
8 21 (18.75%) Unit Testing
9 20 (17.86%) System Integration Testing
10 19 (16.96%) Test Strategy
11 17 (15.18%) End-to-End Testing
12 16 (14.29%) Performance Testing
12 16 (14.29%) System Testing
13 14 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (12.50%) Software Engineering
14 13 (11.61%) SDLC
15 12 (10.71%) BDD
15 12 (10.71%) Containerisation
15 12 (10.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 35 (31.25%) SQL
2 17 (15.18%) JavaScript
3 15 (13.39%) Python
4 14 (12.50%) C#
4 14 (12.50%) Java
5 7 (6.25%) Bash
6 4 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.68%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.79%) C++
8 2 (1.79%) VB
9 1 (0.89%) COBOL
9 1 (0.89%) Dart
9 1 (0.89%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.89%) Go
9 1 (0.89%) Swift
9 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.93%) Degree
4 8 (7.14%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) ISEB
6 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) QA
2 8 (7.14%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) GDPR
3 2 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (10.71%) Docker
2 7 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 19 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.68%) Ansible
2 3 (2.68%) Terraform
3 2 (1.79%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.89%) OPNET
4 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.89%) Puppet
4 1 (0.89%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (11.61%) Oracle
2 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.93%) SAP
4 9 (8.04%) VMware
5 8 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.25%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.79%) Citrix
7 2 (1.79%) HP
7 2 (1.79%) Nintex
8 1 (0.89%) Ariba
8 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco
8 1 (0.89%) Google
8 1 (0.89%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.89%) Perforce
8 1 (0.89%) Sage
8 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.89%) Snow
8 1 (0.89%) Workday