System Integration Testing Contracts

System Integration Testing (SIT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 367 419 437
Rank change year-on-year +52 +18 +95
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 157 164 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.38% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.44% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 107 211
10th Percentile £313 £318 £375
25th Percentile £380 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £672
90th Percentile £650 £712 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £523
% change year-on-year -2.56% -6.70% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.97
25th Percentile - - £51.92
Median hourly rate - - £57.85
75th Percentile - - £62.77
90th Percentile - - £65.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.85
% change year-on-year - - +41.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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 +57 141 £475 -10.38% 76
London +48 87 £518 -10.00% 25
Work from Home +38 53 £453 -18.38% 45
UK excluding London +52 52 £475 -2.56% 54
North West +30 17 £478 -0.68% 13
North of England +28 17 £478 -1.95% 13
South East +36 13 £425 -15.00% 27
West Midlands +18 10 £500 +6.67% 7
Midlands +17 10 £500 +28.21% 8
South West +47 7 £575 +9.52% 3
East of England +28 2 - - 3
Wales +2 2 £460 +187.19% 1
Scotland +9 1 - - 1

System 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 8 (5.10%) Confluence
2 7 (4.46%) NetWeaver
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.64%) CICS
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.91%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.27%) Notepad++
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (7.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.18%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (3.18%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (3.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.91%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.91%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.27%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.27%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.27%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.64%) Murex MxG2000
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.64%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.64%) SAP FI-AP
6 1 (0.64%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.64%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.10%) Azure
2 14 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (5.73%) AWS
4 7 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (4.46%) SaaS
5 6 (3.82%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (1.91%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (1.91%) Azure Stack
6 3 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.64%) GCP
7 1 (0.64%) GitHub
7 1 (0.64%) OCI
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.64%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.64%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.46%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) Converged Networks
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) LAN
2 1 (0.64%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.64%) WAN
2 1 (0.64%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (5.73%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.82%) MS Access
5 5 (3.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.91%) Siebel EIM
8 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.64%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (18.47%) JIRA
2 10 (6.37%) QARun
2 10 (6.37%) WinRunner
3 8 (5.10%) JMeter
3 8 (5.10%) Selenium
4 5 (3.18%) LoadRunner
4 5 (3.18%) Subversion
5 3 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.27%) Gatling
6 2 (1.27%) Git
6 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.27%) MagicDraw
6 2 (1.27%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.27%) TestCafe
6 2 (1.27%) XMLSpy
6 2 (1.27%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.64%) LSMW
General
1 66 (42.04%) Social Skills
2 55 (35.03%) Finance
3 26 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.10%) Banking
5 10 (6.37%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.73%) Billing
7 6 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.18%) Back Office
8 5 (3.18%) Front Office
8 5 (3.18%) Retail
9 4 (2.55%) Military
9 4 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Legal
11 1 (0.64%) Local Government
11 1 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (25.48%) Analyst
2 32 (20.38%) Test Analyst
3 28 (17.83%) Tester
4 25 (15.92%) Developer
5 19 (12.10%) Senior
6 17 (10.83%) Lead
7 16 (10.19%) Test Manager
8 13 (8.28%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (7.64%) Senior Test Analyst
10 10 (6.37%) Consultant
10 10 (6.37%) Test Leader
11 8 (5.10%) UAT Analyst
11 8 (5.10%) UAT Test Analyst
12 7 (4.46%) .NET Developer
12 7 (4.46%) Integration Developer
12 7 (4.46%) SAP Developer
13 5 (3.18%) C# .NET Developer
13 5 (3.18%) C# Developer
13 5 (3.18%) SAP Manager
14 4 (2.55%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.74%) Middleware
2 13 (8.28%) XML
3 12 (7.64%) Web Services
4 11 (7.01%) SOAP
5 10 (6.37%) JMS
6 8 (5.10%) SAP PI
7 7 (4.46%) .NET
7 7 (4.46%) .NET Framework
7 7 (4.46%) EDI
7 7 (4.46%) Entity Framework
7 7 (4.46%) IDoc
7 7 (4.46%) JDBC
7 7 (4.46%) REST
7 7 (4.46%) XSLT
8 3 (1.91%) FpML
8 3 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.27%) JSON
9 2 (1.27%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.64%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.01%) Product Ownership
1 11 (7.01%) Virtual Team
2 7 (4.46%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.18%) SCADA
4 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.55%) Derivative
4 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.27%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.27%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.27%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.27%) OTC Derivatives
7 1 (0.64%) CMDB
7 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.64%) Equities
7 1 (0.64%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.28%) Windows
2 6 (3.82%) Unix
3 4 (2.55%) Linux
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (67.52%) User Acceptance Testing
2 60 (38.22%) Integration Testing
3 56 (35.67%) Agile
4 46 (29.30%) Test Automation
5 45 (28.66%) Test Strategy
6 37 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (19.75%) Migration
8 27 (17.20%) Test Management
9 26 (16.56%) DevOps
9 26 (16.56%) Software Testing
10 24 (15.29%) End-to-End Testing
10 24 (15.29%) Scrum
10 24 (15.29%) SDLC
10 24 (15.29%) Validation
11 22 (14.01%) Defect Management
11 22 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (13.38%) Performance Testing
13 20 (12.74%) Test Planning
14 19 (12.10%) Waterfall
15 18 (11.46%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.48%) SQL
2 17 (10.83%) PL/SQL
3 16 (10.19%) C#
4 10 (6.37%) Java
4 10 (6.37%) RPG
5 8 (5.10%) RPG IV
6 7 (4.46%) ABAP
7 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.82%) VB
8 4 (2.55%) Python
9 1 (0.64%) C
9 1 (0.64%) JCL
9 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.28%) ISTQB
4 10 (6.37%) Degree
5 4 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.91%) ISEB
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMP
7 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.11%) QA
2 3 (1.91%) GDPR
2 3 (1.91%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (1.91%) SEPA
3 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (4.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.82%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.64%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.64%) OPNET
Vendors
1 28 (17.83%) SAP
2 27 (17.20%) Oracle
3 15 (9.55%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.10%) Murex
5 7 (4.46%) Workday
6 6 (3.82%) Charles River
6 6 (3.82%) Citrix
6 6 (3.82%) HP
6 6 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.18%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.91%) Kronos
9 3 (1.91%) Siebel
10 2 (1.27%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.27%) Ariba
10 2 (1.27%) Calypso
10 2 (1.27%) Genesys
10 2 (1.27%) Infor
10 2 (1.27%) webMethods
11 1 (0.64%) Micro Focus