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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 341 342
Rank change year-on-year +61 +1 0
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 72 57 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.27% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.32% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 34 74
10th Percentile £325 £333 £388
25th Percentile £375 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% -8.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £530 £588
90th Percentile £682 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.00
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £51.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £49.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

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 12,335 17,544 20,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.49% 82.74% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 10,293 13,900
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £366 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,015 2,178 1,270
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.88 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.59 £38.12 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% +17.65% +54.29%
75th Percentile £54.38 £61.90 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +29 21 £489 +0.36% 2
North of England +29 21 £489 +0.36% 5
South East +39 19 £375 -11.76% 24
Midlands +9 14 £463 +10.45% 11
South West +49 11 £525 -6.67% 13
West Midlands +13 11 £463 -7.50% 6
Scotland +6 3 - - 5
East Midlands -7 3 - - 4
East of England +24 2 £536 +7.25% 3
Wales - 2 £460 - 3
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 5 (6.94%) NetWeaver
2 4 (5.56%) Confluence
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.39%) CICS
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (9.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.17%) SAP CO
2 3 (4.17%) SAP FI
2 3 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (2.78%) Maximo
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.39%) Azure
2 17 (23.61%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.94%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
4 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.78%) AWS
5 2 (2.78%) SaaS
5 2 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.39%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) HTTP
2 1 (1.39%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (8.33%) Siebel EIM
2 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (4.17%) MS Access
4 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.39%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 26 (36.11%) JIRA
2 4 (5.56%) JMeter
2 4 (5.56%) LoadRunner
3 3 (4.17%) Selenium
4 2 (2.78%) QARun
4 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.78%) WinRunner
4 2 (2.78%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.39%) Postman
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.22%) Finance
3 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.11%) Banking
5 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.56%) Military
8 1 (1.39%) Billing
8 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (22.22%) Analyst
1 16 (22.22%) Tester
2 13 (18.06%) Test Analyst
2 13 (18.06%) Test Manager
3 10 (13.89%) Developer
4 8 (11.11%) Lead
5 7 (9.72%) Test Leader
6 6 (8.33%) Consultant
7 5 (6.94%) Integration Analyst
7 5 (6.94%) Integration Developer
7 5 (6.94%) SAP Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Siebel Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Integration Test Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (5.56%) Senior
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) SAP FI Consultant
9 3 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Test Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) Middleware
2 12 (16.67%) Web Services
3 11 (15.28%) JMS
3 11 (15.28%) SOAP
4 5 (6.94%) EDI
4 5 (6.94%) IDoc
4 5 (6.94%) JDBC
4 5 (6.94%) REST
4 5 (6.94%) SAP PI
4 5 (6.94%) XML
4 5 (6.94%) XSLT
5 4 (5.56%) WebdriverIO
6 3 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (1.39%) ISPF
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 5 (6.94%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.94%) SCADA
3 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) EPoS
5 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Windows
2 6 (8.33%) Linux
3 3 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (1.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.89%) User Acceptance Testing
2 37 (51.39%) Agile
3 36 (50.00%) Integration Testing
4 30 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 27 (37.50%) SDLC
6 24 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 23 (31.94%) End-to-End Testing
8 21 (29.17%) Test Management
9 20 (27.78%) DevOps
10 19 (26.39%) Defect Management
10 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (25.00%) Software Testing
12 17 (23.61%) Migration
12 17 (23.61%) Waterfall
13 16 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
14 15 (20.83%) Validation
15 14 (19.44%) Test Planning
16 12 (16.67%) Change Management
16 12 (16.67%) Scrum
16 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.83%) SQL
2 9 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 6 (8.33%) C#
3 6 (8.33%) VB
4 5 (6.94%) ABAP
4 5 (6.94%) Java
5 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) ISEB
6 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
2 3 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.39%) CA Endevor
2 1 (1.39%) OPNET
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) Oracle
2 13 (18.06%) SAP
3 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.72%) HP
5 6 (8.33%) Siebel
6 5 (6.94%) MuleSoft
7 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.17%) Citrix
8 3 (4.17%) IBM
9 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.39%) Infor
9 1 (1.39%) Ingenico
9 1 (1.39%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.39%) Salesforce