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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 321 329
Rank change year-on-year +66 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 294 278 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 0.65% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.75% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 178 280
10th Percentile £323 £311 £325
25th Percentile £400 £414 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £632
90th Percentile £699 £752 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £600 £523
% change year-on-year -20.83% +14.83% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 24
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.08 £39.44
25th Percentile £55.31 £56.25 £52.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -19.30% +18.75%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £62.25 £77.10
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 26,789 37,090 51,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.26% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,213 23,884 36,030
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 2,438 1,721
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.34 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.81% +8.74% +75.00%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +88 239 £506 -3.57% 228
London +37 133 £520 +0.41% 97
UK excluding London +59 114 £475 -20.83% 164
Work from Home +23 75 £475 -5.00% 144
South East +36 40 £500 -25.93% 61
North of England +30 25 £456 -6.41% 17
South West +52 15 £513 -14.58% 23
North West +20 15 £405 -16.92% 13
Scotland +8 14 £438 -27.89% 7
Midlands +17 12 £461 -12.14% 26
Yorkshire +19 9 £600 +27.66% 3
East of England +22 7 £550 +76.00% 24
West Midlands +13 6 £461 -15.17% 19
East Midlands +11 6 £456 -8.75% 7
Northern Ireland -9 1 £550 - 4
Wales - 1 £525 - 9
North East - 1 £363 - 1

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 25 (8.50%) Confluence
2 12 (4.08%) SAS
3 5 (1.70%) Apache
3 5 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.02%) Documentum
5 3 (1.02%) JBoss
5 3 (1.02%) OpenROAD
6 2 (0.68%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.68%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.68%) Mule
7 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) Appian
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.34%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 10 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (6.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.40%) SAP PP
3 9 (3.06%) SAP R/3
4 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (1.02%) SAP LE
5 3 (1.02%) SAP MM
5 3 (1.02%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.68%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.68%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.68%) Murex MxG2000
6 2 (0.68%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.68%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.68%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 49 (16.67%) Azure
2 40 (13.61%) AWS
3 34 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (3.74%) Slack
5 10 (3.40%) Power Automate
5 10 (3.40%) SaaS
6 7 (2.38%) GitHub
6 7 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (2.04%) OCI
8 5 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.70%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.70%) Serverless
9 4 (1.36%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.02%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.06%) HTTP
2 4 (1.36%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.02%) LAN
3 3 (1.02%) SNMP
4 2 (0.68%) BGP
4 2 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.68%) Firewall
4 2 (0.68%) Internet
4 2 (0.68%) MPLS
4 2 (0.68%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.68%) VPN
4 2 (0.68%) WAN
5 1 (0.34%) Intranet
5 1 (0.34%) Multicast
5 1 (0.34%) NFC
5 1 (0.34%) SSL
5 1 (0.34%) WebEx
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.18%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.10%) MySQL
4 13 (4.42%) Apache Cassandra
4 13 (4.42%) Oracle Database
5 9 (3.06%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.70%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.70%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.36%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.36%) Power BI
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.02%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.02%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.02%) MS Access
9 3 (1.02%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.68%) GIS
10 2 (0.68%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 47 (15.99%) JIRA
2 42 (14.29%) Git
3 27 (9.18%) Selenium
4 19 (6.46%) Jenkins
5 16 (5.44%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.10%) JUnit
7 12 (4.08%) Jasmine
7 12 (4.08%) JMeter
8 11 (3.74%) GitLab
8 11 (3.74%) Postman
9 8 (2.72%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.72%) SpecFlow
10 7 (2.38%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.04%) LoadRunner
12 5 (1.70%) Appium
12 5 (1.70%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.70%) TestComplete
12 5 (1.70%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.36%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.36%) NeoLoad
General
1 83 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (15.31%) Finance
4 29 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.78%) Manufacturing
6 16 (5.44%) Banking
7 11 (3.74%) Retail
8 10 (3.40%) Aerospace
8 10 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.04%) Front Office
10 6 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.70%) Billing
12 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.36%) Marketing
13 3 (1.02%) Military
13 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Back Office
14 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 87 (29.59%) Developer
2 48 (16.33%) Analyst
3 45 (15.31%) Lead
4 33 (11.22%) Senior
5 31 (10.54%) Software Developer
6 30 (10.20%) Consultant
7 28 (9.52%) Test Analyst
8 26 (8.84%) Tester
9 17 (5.78%) SAP Consultant
10 16 (5.44%) Senior Developer
10 16 (5.44%) Test Engineer
11 15 (5.10%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.42%) Test Leader
13 11 (3.74%) Functional Consultant
14 10 (3.40%) SAP Functional Consultant
14 10 (3.40%) Test Manager
15 9 (3.06%) SAP PP Consultant
15 9 (3.06%) SAP PP Functional Consultant
15 9 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (3.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.52%) .NET
2 20 (6.80%) HTML
3 19 (6.46%) RESTful
4 17 (5.78%) CSS
5 16 (5.44%) Spring
5 16 (5.44%) Spring Boot
6 15 (5.10%) Kafka
7 13 (4.42%) Spring Batch
7 13 (4.42%) Swagger
8 12 (4.08%) OpenAPI
8 12 (4.08%) Spring Security
9 11 (3.74%) Playwright
9 11 (3.74%) React
9 11 (3.74%) Web Services
10 10 (3.40%) XML
11 8 (2.72%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.72%) REST
12 6 (2.04%) SOAP
13 5 (1.70%) ASP.NET
13 5 (1.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.42%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 11 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 6 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.70%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.70%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.02%) CMDB
8 3 (1.02%) Derivative
8 3 (1.02%) EPoS
8 3 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.68%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.56%) Linux
2 12 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (3.74%) Windows
4 5 (1.70%) Unix
5 3 (1.02%) AIX
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.68%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (32.99%) Test Automation
2 84 (28.57%) Agile
2 84 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 82 (27.89%) User Acceptance Testing
4 77 (26.19%) DevOps
5 69 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (22.45%) CI/CD
7 61 (20.75%) System Integration Testing
8 52 (17.69%) Software Testing
9 48 (16.33%) Validation
10 42 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 41 (13.95%) End-to-End Testing
12 38 (12.93%) Test Strategy
13 33 (11.22%) Performance Testing
13 33 (11.22%) Regression Testing
14 31 (10.54%) Migration
14 31 (10.54%) System Testing
14 31 (10.54%) Test Management
15 30 (10.20%) Scrum
16 28 (9.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 75 (25.51%) SQL
2 57 (19.39%) Python
3 45 (15.31%) Java
4 34 (11.56%) C#
5 31 (10.54%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.10%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.42%) Bash
8 11 (3.74%) ABAP
9 7 (2.38%) C++
9 7 (2.38%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.70%) Ruby
11 4 (1.36%) PHP
11 4 (1.36%) Scala
12 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.68%) RPG
13 2 (0.68%) SOQL
13 2 (0.68%) VB
13 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.34%) Dart
14 1 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 84 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.46%) Degree
5 16 (5.44%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.36%) ISEB
8 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) IIBA
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.65%) QA
2 9 (3.06%) Def Stans
3 5 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.70%) SEPA
4 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.02%) GDPR
5 3 (1.02%) 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 24 (8.16%) Docker
2 8 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 31 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.38%) HP ALM
3 5 (1.70%) Terraform
4 4 (1.36%) Ansible
5 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.68%) Control-M
6 2 (0.68%) Grafana
6 2 (0.68%) Istio
6 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.68%) 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 45 (15.31%) SAP
2 35 (11.90%) Oracle
3 30 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.74%) Workday
5 10 (3.40%) OpenAI
5 10 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.40%) VMware
6 9 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.38%) HP
8 6 (2.04%) Murex
9 5 (1.70%) IBM
10 4 (1.36%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.36%) Cisco
10 4 (1.36%) Reuters
10 4 (1.36%) Splunk
11 3 (1.02%) Adobe
11 3 (1.02%) Kronos
11 3 (1.02%) Siebel
12 2 (0.68%) Citrix
12 2 (0.68%) Genesys