Integration Testing Contracts

Integration Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Integration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Integration Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 336 338
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 290 447 714
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.75% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.83% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 295 465
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £600
90th Percentile £765 £718 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £523 £475
% change year-on-year +14.83% +10.00% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 23 24
10th Percentile £54.71 £38.96 £44.78
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.13 £49.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +25.65%
75th Percentile £66.88 £75.00 £61.38
90th Percentile £86.50 - £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +20.83% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Integration Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing.

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Integration Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +33 240 £525 - 108
London +73 133 £500 -9.09% 34
UK excluding London +6 117 £600 +14.83% 78
Work from Home +48 105 £513 -4.87% 50
South East +28 52 £663 +10.42% 16
Midlands +5 18 £513 -13.57% 16
Scotland +42 15 £607 +12.88% 7
West Midlands +16 14 £544 +2.11% 12
North of England +4 13 £550 - 14
North West +11 10 £575 +98.28% 10
East of England +12 9 £313 -37.50% 17
South West -10 6 £600 +33.33% 9
East Midlands +14 4 £470 -21.67% 4
Northern Ireland +11 4 £500 -
Yorkshire +9 3 £470 -9.18% 3

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (6.21%) Apache
2 17 (5.86%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.38%) Confluence
3 4 (1.38%) IIS
3 4 (1.38%) JBoss
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.03%) CMS
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.41%) Simulink
3 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.72%) Stateflow
4 5 (1.72%) TargetLink
5 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.69%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 17 (5.86%) SAP EWM
2 15 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (4.14%) SAP QM
4 6 (2.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (1.72%) SAP PM
5 5 (1.72%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.72%) SAP SD
6 4 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (1.38%) Endur
6 4 (1.38%) SAP VC
7 3 (1.03%) ION MarketView
7 3 (1.03%) OPENHousing
7 3 (1.03%) SAP GTS
7 3 (1.03%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.69%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.69%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.69%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 47 (16.21%) Azure
2 40 (13.79%) AWS
3 21 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (2.76%) GitHub
5 7 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (2.41%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.41%) SaaS
5 7 (2.41%) Serverless
6 6 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.38%) OCI
8 4 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.86%) MPLS
2 14 (4.83%) Radio Access Network
3 13 (4.48%) BGP
3 13 (4.48%) Ethernet VPN
3 13 (4.48%) VPN
4 6 (2.07%) SNMP
4 6 (2.07%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.38%) PBX
5 4 (1.38%) PSTN
5 4 (1.38%) VoIP
6 2 (0.69%) DHCP
6 2 (0.69%) DNS
6 2 (0.69%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) Internet
6 2 (0.69%) LAN
6 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.69%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.34%) 4G
7 1 (0.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.76%) NoSQL
2 17 (5.86%) MongoDB
2 17 (5.86%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.76%) DB2
5 7 (2.41%) KDB
6 6 (2.07%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.38%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.03%) Big Data
9 3 (1.03%) Flink
9 3 (1.03%) Parquet
10 2 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (15.86%) JIRA
2 24 (8.28%) Git
2 24 (8.28%) Selenium
3 17 (5.86%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.52%) GitLab
5 13 (4.48%) Robot Framework
5 13 (4.48%) TestRail
6 8 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.76%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.76%) JUnit
6 8 (2.76%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.41%) TestNG
8 6 (2.07%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.07%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.72%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.72%) Subversion
10 4 (1.38%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.03%) JMeter
11 3 (1.03%) NUnit
11 3 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.28%) Finance
3 25 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.52%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.10%) Banking
5 9 (3.10%) Manufacturing
5 9 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.76%) Retail
7 6 (2.07%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.72%) Automotive
8 5 (1.72%) Electronics
8 5 (1.72%) Legal
9 4 (1.38%) Marketing
9 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.38%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.03%) Back Office
10 3 (1.03%) Front Office
10 3 (1.03%) Law
10 3 (1.03%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (18.62%) Developer
2 40 (13.79%) Analyst
3 35 (12.07%) Consultant
4 32 (11.03%) Lead
5 29 (10.00%) Senior
6 25 (8.62%) Test Analyst
6 25 (8.62%) Test Engineer
7 23 (7.93%) SAP Consultant
7 23 (7.93%) Test Manager
8 18 (6.21%) Tester
9 16 (5.52%) Architect
10 15 (5.17%) Software Developer
11 12 (4.14%) Network Engineer
11 12 (4.14%) SAP QM Consultant
11 12 (4.14%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.14%) Test Leader
12 8 (2.76%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (2.76%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.41%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.62%) .NET
2 24 (8.28%) REST
3 20 (6.90%) RESTful
3 20 (6.90%) SOAP
4 17 (5.86%) JSON
5 16 (5.52%) WebSockets
6 15 (5.17%) FastAPI
6 15 (5.17%) NETCONF
7 14 (4.83%) Node.js
8 13 (4.48%) RESTCONF
9 12 (4.14%) CSS
9 12 (4.14%) React
9 12 (4.14%) YANG
10 11 (3.79%) AngularJS
10 11 (3.79%) HTML
10 11 (3.79%) XML
11 10 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (2.07%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.07%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.38%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.38%) Derivative
7 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.03%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.03%) NHS
7 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.03%) PACS
7 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.03%) Wiki
8 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.83%) Windows
2 12 (4.14%) Linux
3 8 (2.76%) Unix
4 5 (1.72%) AIX
5 4 (1.38%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.83%) User Acceptance Testing
2 91 (31.38%) Agile
3 88 (30.34%) Test Automation
4 70 (24.14%) Unit Testing
5 60 (20.69%) CI/CD
6 51 (17.59%) System Integration Testing
7 49 (16.90%) End-to-End Testing
8 47 (16.21%) DevOps
9 40 (13.79%) Test Scripting
10 38 (13.10%) Scrum
10 38 (13.10%) Software Testing
11 37 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (12.41%) Migration
13 35 (12.07%) Analytics
14 34 (11.72%) Regression Testing
14 34 (11.72%) Test Strategy
15 32 (11.03%) Performance Testing
16 27 (9.31%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (9.31%) GAP Analysis
17 25 (8.62%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (22.07%) SQL
2 58 (20.00%) Python
3 29 (10.00%) Java
4 27 (9.31%) C#
5 23 (7.93%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.10%) C
6 9 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.76%) C++
8 7 (2.41%) MATLAB
9 5 (1.72%) PHP
9 5 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.38%) Bicep
10 4 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.38%) Scala
11 3 (1.03%) ABAP
11 3 (1.03%) Ada
12 2 (0.69%) Ada 95
12 2 (0.69%) COBOL
12 2 (0.69%) SAPscript
12 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.59%) Degree
4 20 (6.90%) ISTQB
5 14 (4.83%) ISEB
6 9 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.72%) SAP Certification
9 4 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.38%) PMP
10 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.69%) CCNA
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.69%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.69%) QA
2 12 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.72%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.72%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.72%) MISRA
4 5 (1.72%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.03%) GxP
5 3 (1.03%) HL7
6 2 (0.69%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.69%) GDPR
6 2 (0.69%) NIST
6 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.69%) PMO
6 2 (0.69%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (7.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (4.83%) Terraform
2 9 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.38%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (1.38%) Tivoli
4 3 (1.03%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.69%) Ansible
5 2 (0.69%) Nmap
5 2 (0.69%) OpenNMS
6 1 (0.34%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.34%) Control-M
Vendors
1 71 (24.48%) SAP
2 32 (11.03%) Oracle
3 24 (8.28%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.14%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.07%) IBM
5 6 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.07%) Workday
6 5 (1.72%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.72%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.38%) Blue Prism
7 4 (1.38%) Capita
7 4 (1.38%) F5
7 4 (1.38%) HP
7 4 (1.38%) Northgate
8 3 (1.03%) Adobe
8 3 (1.03%) Ariba
8 3 (1.03%) Cisco
8 3 (1.03%) Databricks
8 3 (1.03%) Murex
8 3 (1.03%) Tradeweb