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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 313 333
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 270 449 699
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.80% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.89% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 279 452
10th Percentile £306 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £647 £625 £600
90th Percentile £748 £701 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £581 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +16.25% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 22
10th Percentile £50.08 £47.47 £45.13
25th Percentile £56.25 £54.73 £52.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +20.83% +17.07%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £62.25 £78.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +20.83% +14.29%

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 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -12 223 £525 +5.00% 121
London +54 127 £515 -1.90% 30
UK excluding London -15 104 £581 +16.25% 92
Work from Home +16 88 £500 -2.44% 54
South East +1 44 £675 +11.94% 18
North of England +9 16 £481 -10.47% 28
Scotland +40 15 £607 +15.57% 7
Midlands +2 14 £513 -13.87% 17
North West +20 11 £488 +68.10% 14
East of England +5 11 £313 -37.50% 17
West Midlands +2 11 £525 -8.70% 9
Yorkshire +5 5 £463 -10.63% 12
East Midlands +6 3 £500 -16.67% 8
Northern Ireland +6 2 - -
South West -31 2 £475 +5.56% 10

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 14 (5.19%) Apache
2 12 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.48%) Confluence
3 4 (1.48%) IIS
3 4 (1.48%) JBoss
4 3 (1.11%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) Mule
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.85%) Simulink
3 5 (1.85%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.85%) TargetLink
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.74%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 19 (7.04%) SAP EWM
2 15 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (4.81%) SAP QM
4 6 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (1.85%) ION MarketView
6 4 (1.48%) Endur
6 4 (1.48%) SAP GTS
6 4 (1.48%) SAP PP
6 4 (1.48%) SAP VC
7 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (1.11%) OPENHousing
7 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (1.11%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.74%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.74%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.74%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.74%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.74%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.30%) Azure
2 40 (14.81%) AWS
3 16 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.59%) SaaS
5 6 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (2.22%) Serverless
6 5 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (1.48%) GitHub
7 4 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.11%) Boomi
8 3 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.11%) GCP
8 3 (1.11%) PaaS
8 3 (1.11%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.19%) MPLS
2 11 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
3 10 (3.70%) BGP
3 10 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (3.70%) VPN
4 6 (2.22%) SNMP
4 6 (2.22%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.48%) PBX
5 4 (1.48%) PSTN
5 4 (1.48%) VoIP
6 2 (0.74%) DHCP
6 2 (0.74%) DNS
6 2 (0.74%) Internet
6 2 (0.74%) LAN
6 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.37%) 4G
7 1 (0.37%) 5G
7 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.81%) MongoDB
2 13 (4.81%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.33%) KDB
5 7 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.85%) DB2
8 4 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.48%) Parquet
8 4 (1.48%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.74%) Big Data
9 2 (0.74%) MySQL
9 2 (0.74%) Power BI
9 2 (0.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 39 (14.44%) JIRA
2 24 (8.89%) Git
3 18 (6.67%) Selenium
4 15 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 14 (5.19%) GitLab
6 10 (3.70%) Robot Framework
6 10 (3.70%) TestRail
7 9 (3.33%) Visual Studio
8 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.22%) JUnit
10 5 (1.85%) Subversion
11 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.48%) Deequ
11 4 (1.48%) Maven
11 4 (1.48%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.48%) TestNG
11 4 (1.48%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.11%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.78%) Finance
3 20 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.33%) Banking
6 8 (2.96%) Retail
7 6 (2.22%) Legal
7 6 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.85%) Automotive
8 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Front Office
9 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.11%) Back Office
10 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.11%) Military
11 2 (0.74%) Electronics
11 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (20.00%) Developer
2 39 (14.44%) Analyst
3 34 (12.59%) Consultant
4 32 (11.85%) Senior
5 27 (10.00%) Lead
6 25 (9.26%) Test Analyst
6 25 (9.26%) Test Manager
7 23 (8.52%) SAP Consultant
8 16 (5.93%) Test Engineer
9 14 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.19%) Software Developer
9 14 (5.19%) Tester
10 13 (4.81%) SAP QM Consultant
11 12 (4.44%) Architect
12 10 (3.70%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.70%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.70%) Test Leader
13 9 (3.33%) Network Engineer
14 8 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
15 7 (2.59%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.15%) .NET
1 22 (8.15%) RESTful
2 21 (7.78%) JSON
3 20 (7.41%) SOAP
4 17 (6.30%) REST
5 15 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 15 (5.56%) WebSockets
5 15 (5.56%) XML
6 14 (5.19%) Node.js
7 13 (4.81%) HTML
7 13 (4.81%) React
8 12 (4.44%) CSS
8 12 (4.44%) NETCONF
9 11 (4.07%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (4.07%) Web Services
10 10 (3.70%) RESTCONF
11 9 (3.33%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.33%) YANG
12 6 (2.22%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (2.96%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.59%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.48%) Derivative
5 3 (1.11%) CMDB
5 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.11%) NHS
5 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.11%) PACS
5 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.74%) CCTV
6 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.74%) Equities
6 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.19%) Windows
2 10 (3.70%) Linux
3 8 (2.96%) Unix
4 5 (1.85%) AIX
5 4 (1.48%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (35.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 91 (33.70%) Agile
3 76 (28.15%) Test Automation
4 64 (23.70%) Unit Testing
5 48 (17.78%) CI/CD
6 47 (17.41%) End-to-End Testing
6 47 (17.41%) System Integration Testing
7 41 (15.19%) DevOps
8 35 (12.96%) Analytics
9 32 (11.85%) Migration
9 32 (11.85%) Test Scripting
9 32 (11.85%) Test Strategy
10 31 (11.48%) Scrum
11 29 (10.74%) GAP Analysis
12 28 (10.37%) Continuous Integration
13 27 (10.00%) Software Testing
14 26 (9.63%) Performance Testing
15 25 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (9.26%) Regression Testing
16 23 (8.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (21.85%) SQL
2 50 (18.52%) Python
3 28 (10.37%) Java
4 25 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 22 (8.15%) C#
6 9 (3.33%) C++
7 8 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.59%) C
8 7 (2.59%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.22%) Bash
10 5 (1.85%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.48%) ABAP
12 3 (1.11%) Bicep
12 3 (1.11%) Scala
12 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.74%) PHP
13 2 (0.74%) SAPscript
14 1 (0.37%) VBA
14 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.52%) Degree
4 16 (5.93%) ISTQB
5 14 (5.19%) ISEB
6 10 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.48%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.48%) PMP
10 3 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.74%) CCNA
11 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.74%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.26%) QA
2 10 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.85%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (1.85%) ISO 26262
3 5 (1.85%) MISRA
3 5 (1.85%) MISRA C
4 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.11%) GxP
4 3 (1.11%) HL7
4 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.74%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (7.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.33%) Terraform
3 4 (1.48%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (1.48%) Tivoli
4 3 (1.11%) Ansible
5 2 (0.74%) Nmap
5 2 (0.74%) OpenNMS
6 1 (0.37%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.37%) Control-M
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 63 (23.33%) SAP
2 30 (11.11%) Oracle
3 20 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.44%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.59%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.85%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.48%) Ariba
7 4 (1.48%) Capita
7 4 (1.48%) Databricks
7 4 (1.48%) F5
7 4 (1.48%) IBM
7 4 (1.48%) Murex
7 4 (1.48%) Northgate
7 4 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.48%) Tradeweb
8 3 (1.11%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.11%) Cisco
8 3 (1.11%) Siemens
8 3 (1.11%) Workday