Integration Testing Contracts

Integration Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 262 313 331
Rank change year-on-year +51 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 291 289 449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 0.66% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.77% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 183 293
10th Percentile £318 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £601 £644 £638
90th Percentile £699 £765 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £520
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 23
10th Percentile £52.50 £54.71 £38.96
25th Percentile £55.31 £56.25 £52.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £86.50 -
UK excluding London 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

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Top 17 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 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
England +54 239 £514 -2.14% 203
London +38 132 £550 +10.00% 77
UK excluding London +60 112 £500 -16.67% 160
Work from Home +10 73 £488 -2.50% 140
South East +34 40 £500 -25.93% 58
North of England +30 24 £463 -15.91% 20
South West +55 15 £513 -14.58% 17
North West +21 14 £450 -21.74% 11
Midlands +17 12 £463 -11.90% 24
Scotland +10 12 £463 -23.77% 10
Yorkshire +14 9 £600 +27.66% 7
East of England +28 7 £550 +76.00% 26
West Midlands +7 7 £461 -15.17% 15
East Midlands +12 5 £463 -7.50% 8
Northern Ireland -11 1 £550 +10.00% 6
Wales - 1 £525 - 5
North East - 1 £363 - 2

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 24 (8.25%) Confluence
2 14 (4.81%) SAS
3 5 (1.72%) Apache
3 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.03%) Documentum
4 3 (1.03%) JBoss
4 3 (1.03%) OpenROAD
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.69%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.69%) Camunda
5 2 (0.69%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) Mule
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.34%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (6.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.44%) SAP PP
3 9 (3.09%) SAP R/3
4 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.03%) SAP LE
5 3 (1.03%) SAP MM
5 3 (1.03%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.69%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.69%) Murex MxG2000
6 2 (0.69%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.69%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.69%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.69%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 1 (0.34%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 50 (17.18%) Azure
2 41 (14.09%) AWS
3 35 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (3.78%) Power Automate
4 11 (3.78%) Slack
5 9 (3.09%) SaaS
6 7 (2.41%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (2.41%) GitHub
6 7 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.06%) OCI
8 5 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.72%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.37%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.03%) GCP
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.03%) Serverless
10 3 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.09%) HTTP
2 4 (1.37%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.03%) LAN
3 3 (1.03%) SNMP
4 2 (0.69%) BGP
4 2 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.69%) Firewall
4 2 (0.69%) MPLS
4 2 (0.69%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.69%) VPN
4 2 (0.69%) WAN
5 1 (0.34%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) Intranet
5 1 (0.34%) Multicast
5 1 (0.34%) SSL
5 1 (0.34%) WebEx
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.93%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.15%) MySQL
3 15 (5.15%) Oracle Database
4 13 (4.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.06%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.06%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.37%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.37%) Power BI
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.03%) MS Access
8 3 (1.03%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.69%) ObjectStore
9 2 (0.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 47 (16.15%) JIRA
2 39 (13.40%) Git
3 26 (8.93%) Selenium
4 17 (5.84%) Cucumber
5 16 (5.50%) Jenkins
6 15 (5.15%) JUnit
7 13 (4.47%) JMeter
8 12 (4.12%) Jasmine
9 11 (3.78%) GitLab
9 11 (3.78%) Postman
10 9 (3.09%) SpecFlow
11 8 (2.75%) Cypress.io
12 6 (2.06%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.06%) LoadRunner
13 5 (1.72%) Appium
13 5 (1.72%) Robot Framework
14 4 (1.37%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.37%) Gatling
14 4 (1.37%) NeoLoad
14 4 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (15.12%) Finance
4 29 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.50%) Banking
6 15 (5.15%) Manufacturing
7 11 (3.78%) Retail
8 10 (3.44%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.72%) Billing
11 5 (1.72%) Front Office
11 5 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.72%) Marketing
12 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.03%) Military
13 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.69%) Back Office
14 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 90 (30.93%) Developer
2 47 (16.15%) Lead
3 42 (14.43%) Analyst
4 34 (11.68%) Software Developer
5 31 (10.65%) Consultant
5 31 (10.65%) Senior
6 26 (8.93%) Tester
7 25 (8.59%) Test Analyst
8 18 (6.19%) SAP Consultant
9 16 (5.50%) Senior Developer
9 16 (5.50%) Test Engineer
10 15 (5.15%) Java Developer
11 12 (4.12%) Test Leader
12 11 (3.78%) Functional Consultant
13 10 (3.44%) SAP Functional Consultant
13 10 (3.44%) Test Manager
14 9 (3.09%) Lead Developer
14 9 (3.09%) SAP PP Consultant
14 9 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (3.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.97%) .NET
2 21 (7.22%) HTML
3 19 (6.53%) RESTful
4 18 (6.19%) CSS
5 15 (5.15%) Spring
5 15 (5.15%) Spring Boot
6 14 (4.81%) Kafka
7 12 (4.12%) OpenAPI
7 12 (4.12%) Playwright
7 12 (4.12%) Spring Batch
7 12 (4.12%) Spring Security
7 12 (4.12%) Swagger
8 11 (3.78%) React
9 10 (3.44%) XML
10 9 (3.09%) Web Services
11 8 (2.75%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.75%) REST
12 6 (2.06%) SOAP
13 5 (1.72%) ASP.NET
13 5 (1.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.47%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 11 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 6 (2.06%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.03%) CMDB
8 3 (1.03%) Derivative
8 3 (1.03%) EPoS
8 3 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.69%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.03%) Linux
2 12 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.44%) Windows
4 5 (1.72%) Unix
5 3 (1.03%) AIX
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.69%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (32.30%) Test Automation
2 86 (29.55%) Unit Testing
3 85 (29.21%) Agile
4 79 (27.15%) DevOps
5 78 (26.80%) User Acceptance Testing
6 72 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (22.34%) CI/CD
8 60 (20.62%) System Integration Testing
9 53 (18.21%) Software Testing
10 45 (15.46%) Validation
11 44 (15.12%) Software Engineering
12 41 (14.09%) End-to-End Testing
13 38 (13.06%) Test Strategy
14 34 (11.68%) Performance Testing
15 33 (11.34%) Regression Testing
16 31 (10.65%) System Testing
16 31 (10.65%) Test Management
17 29 (9.97%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (9.97%) Migration
18 28 (9.62%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 71 (24.40%) SQL
2 58 (19.93%) Python
3 45 (15.46%) Java
4 36 (12.37%) C#
5 33 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.81%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.47%) Bash
8 11 (3.78%) ABAP
9 6 (2.06%) C++
9 6 (2.06%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.72%) Ruby
11 4 (1.37%) PHP
11 4 (1.37%) Scala
12 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.69%) RPG
13 2 (0.69%) SOQL
13 2 (0.69%) VB
13 2 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.34%) Dart
14 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 87 (29.90%) Security Cleared
2 78 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.25%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.87%) Degree
5 15 (5.15%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.03%) ISEB
7 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.69%) PMP
9 1 (0.34%) IIBA
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PhD
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.15%) QA
2 9 (3.09%) Def Stans
3 5 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.72%) SEPA
4 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (7.90%) Docker
2 8 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.03%) Firmware
5 2 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 31 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.06%) HP ALM
3 5 (1.72%) Terraform
4 4 (1.37%) Ansible
5 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.69%) Control-M
6 2 (0.69%) Grafana
6 2 (0.69%) Istio
6 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.34%) OPNET
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 47 (16.15%) SAP
2 36 (12.37%) Oracle
3 31 (10.65%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.78%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.78%) Workday
5 10 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.44%) VMware
6 9 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.06%) HP
8 5 (1.72%) IBM
8 5 (1.72%) Murex
9 4 (1.37%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.37%) Cisco
9 4 (1.37%) Reuters
10 3 (1.03%) Adobe
10 3 (1.03%) Ariba
10 3 (1.03%) Kronos
10 3 (1.03%) Siebel
11 2 (0.69%) Citrix
11 2 (0.69%) Genesys