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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 293 261
Rank change year-on-year +67 -32 +41
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 111 104 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.50% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.60% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 63 117
10th Percentile £353 £308 £300
25th Percentile £405 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £736 £625
90th Percentile £626 £765 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.48% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 17
10th Percentile £52.50 - £48.40
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 £58.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £63.13 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% -20.69% +20.83%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +36 38 £488 -28.44% 35
North of England +15 20 £450 -7.69% 26
South West +58 17 £506 +6.58% 14
Scotland +9 14 £431 -28.92% 10
Midlands +11 13 £463 -9.76% 23
North West +8 13 £450 -7.69% 21
East of England +27 8 £550 +76.00% 21
East Midlands +12 8 £463 -7.50% 7
Yorkshire +12 6 £563 +25.00% 5
West Midlands +9 5 £461 -12.14% 16
Northern Ireland -11 1 £550 - 7
Wales - 1 £525 - 7
North East - 1 £363 -
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 9 (8.11%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.70%) JBoss
3 3 (2.70%) OpenROAD
3 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.80%) Mule
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.90%) Apache
5 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.90%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) Maximo
2 2 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.80%) SAP LE
2 2 (1.80%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.90%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.90%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.90%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.90%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.90%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.90%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.32%) Azure
2 16 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.21%) AWS
4 5 (4.50%) Power Automate
4 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.50%) PowerApps
4 5 (4.50%) SaaS
5 4 (3.60%) GitHub
5 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.80%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.80%) OCI
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.90%) npm
8 1 (0.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.90%) Slack
8 1 (0.90%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) HTTP
1 4 (3.60%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (2.70%) SNMP
3 2 (1.80%) Internet
3 2 (1.80%) SSL
4 1 (0.90%) Intranet
4 1 (0.90%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.70%) MS Access
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.80%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.80%) MySQL
4 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.80%) ObjectStore
4 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.90%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) Git
2 15 (13.51%) JIRA
3 11 (9.91%) Selenium
4 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.41%) JMeter
6 5 (4.50%) LoadRunner
7 4 (3.60%) Robot Framework
8 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.70%) GitLab
8 3 (2.70%) GoogleTest
8 3 (2.70%) Postman
8 3 (2.70%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.70%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.80%) JUnit
9 2 (1.80%) QARun
9 2 (1.80%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.80%) WinRunner
General
1 31 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.92%) Finance
3 16 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.50%) Banking
5 5 (4.50%) Retail
6 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.90%) Back Office
9 1 (0.90%) Electronics
9 1 (0.90%) Games
9 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Military
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (20.72%) Analyst
1 23 (20.72%) Developer
2 17 (15.32%) Lead
3 14 (12.61%) Test Analyst
4 13 (11.71%) Senior
5 10 (9.01%) Consultant
6 7 (6.31%) Test Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Test Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Oracle Analyst
7 6 (5.41%) Project Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Project Leader
7 6 (5.41%) Test Leader
7 6 (5.41%) Tester
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Integration Consultant
9 4 (3.60%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Software Test Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.91%) Kafka
2 9 (8.11%) .NET
2 9 (8.11%) CSS
2 9 (8.11%) HTML
2 9 (8.11%) Web Services
3 7 (6.31%) React
4 6 (5.41%) REST
5 5 (4.50%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.50%) RESTful
6 4 (3.60%) Node.js
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.70%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (2.70%) Blazor
7 3 (2.70%) Java SE
7 3 (2.70%) OAuth
7 3 (2.70%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.60%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.70%) EPoS
4 3 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) CMDB
5 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.01%) Linux
2 6 (5.41%) Windows
3 4 (3.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.04%) Agile
2 38 (34.23%) Test Automation
3 31 (27.93%) User Acceptance Testing
4 30 (27.03%) DevOps
5 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (26.13%) Software Testing
6 28 (25.23%) System Integration Testing
7 26 (23.42%) Validation
8 23 (20.72%) CI/CD
9 20 (18.02%) Unit Testing
10 18 (16.22%) End-to-End Testing
11 17 (15.32%) Test Strategy
12 15 (13.51%) System Testing
13 14 (12.61%) Waterfall
14 13 (11.71%) Performance Testing
14 13 (11.71%) SDLC
15 12 (10.81%) API Integration
15 12 (10.81%) Manual Testing
15 12 (10.81%) Scrum
16 11 (9.91%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.03%) SQL
2 13 (11.71%) JavaScript
3 11 (9.91%) Python
4 10 (9.01%) C#
5 9 (8.11%) Java
6 6 (5.41%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.70%) C++
7 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.80%) VB
9 1 (0.90%) Bash
9 1 (0.90%) C
9 1 (0.90%) COBOL
9 1 (0.90%) Dart
9 1 (0.90%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.90%) Go
9 1 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.91%) ISTQB
4 9 (8.11%) Degree
5 5 (4.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.80%) ISEB
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.12%) QA
2 8 (7.21%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.41%) Docker
3 4 (3.60%) Firmware
4 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.70%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.80%) Ansible
3 2 (1.80%) Terraform
4 1 (0.90%) OPNET
4 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.90%) Puppet
4 1 (0.90%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Oracle
2 14 (12.61%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.81%) SAP
4 9 (8.11%) VMware
5 8 (7.21%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.60%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.70%) Citrix
7 3 (2.70%) HP
8 2 (1.80%) IBM
8 2 (1.80%) Nintex
9 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.90%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.90%) Google
9 1 (0.90%) Micro Focus
9 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.90%) Perforce
9 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.90%) Snow