System Integration Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Integration Testing (SIT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 284 336 360
Rank change year-on-year +52 +24 +40
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 52 63 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.30% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.36% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 78
10th Percentile £375 £304 £384
25th Percentile £425 £388 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -6.70% +5.03%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £600
90th Percentile £623 £647 £702
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.97
25th Percentile - - £51.92
Median hourly rate - - £57.85
75th Percentile - - £62.77
90th Percentile - - £65.12
UK median hourly rate - - £57.85
% change year-on-year - - +41.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for System Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

System Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for System Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

System Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for System Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

System 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 System 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
North West +30 17 £478 -0.68% 12
North of England +28 17 £478 -1.95% 12
South East +36 13 £425 -15.00% 27
West Midlands +18 10 £500 +6.67% 7
Midlands +17 10 £500 +28.21% 8
South West +47 7 £575 +9.52% 4
East of England +28 2 - - 3
Wales +2 2 £460 +187.19% 1
Scotland +9 1 - - 1
System Integration Testing
UK

System 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 6 (11.54%) NetWeaver
2 3 (5.77%) Confluence
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.92%) CICS
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.08%) Azure
2 11 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Pipelines
4 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.77%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) AWS
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.92%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.92%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (5.77%) Siebel EIM
3 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.85%) MS Access
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (38.46%) JIRA
2 6 (11.54%) JMeter
3 5 (9.62%) LoadRunner
4 4 (7.69%) Selenium
5 2 (3.85%) QARun
5 2 (3.85%) WinRunner
5 2 (3.85%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.92%) Mocha
6 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Tester
2 8 (15.38%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) Developer
2 8 (15.38%) Test Manager
3 6 (11.54%) Integration Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Lead
3 6 (11.54%) SAP Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Test Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Test Leader
5 4 (7.69%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) Software Tester
6 3 (5.77%) Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Siebel Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (1.92%) Implementation Manager
8 1 (1.92%) QA Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Senior Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Middleware
2 9 (17.31%) JMS
2 9 (17.31%) SOAP
3 7 (13.46%) Web Services
4 6 (11.54%) EDI
4 6 (11.54%) IDoc
4 6 (11.54%) JDBC
4 6 (11.54%) REST
4 6 (11.54%) SAP PI
4 6 (11.54%) XML
4 6 (11.54%) XSLT
5 1 (1.92%) ISPF
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.92%) Playwright
5 1 (1.92%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Virtual Team
2 6 (11.54%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.62%) SCADA
4 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) EPoS
6 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) User Acceptance Testing
2 29 (55.77%) Agile
3 24 (46.15%) Test Strategy
4 21 (40.38%) Test Automation
5 20 (38.46%) Integration Testing
6 19 (36.54%) SDLC
7 15 (28.85%) DevOps
8 14 (26.92%) Performance Testing
9 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
9 13 (25.00%) Scrum
9 13 (25.00%) Validation
10 12 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
10 12 (23.08%) Software Testing
11 11 (21.15%) Defect Management
11 11 (21.15%) Test Management
12 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (17.31%) System Testing
14 8 (15.38%) Change Management
14 8 (15.38%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) ABAP
2 6 (11.54%) Java
3 5 (9.62%) PL/SQL
4 3 (5.77%) C#
4 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.85%) VB
6 1 (1.92%) C
6 1 (1.92%) JCL
6 1 (1.92%) Python
6 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) ISTQB
4 4 (7.69%) Degree
5 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) ISEB
6 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.92%) CA Endevor
2 1 (1.92%) OPNET
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Oracle
2 8 (15.38%) SAP
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.62%) HP
4 5 (9.62%) MuleSoft
5 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.77%) Siebel
7 2 (3.85%) Citrix
8 1 (1.92%) IBM
8 1 (1.92%) Infor
8 1 (1.92%) Ingenico
8 1 (1.92%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.92%) Salesforce