System Integration Testing Contract Job Trends

System Integration Testing (SIT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring System Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 407 346
Rank change year-on-year +45 -61 +116
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 233 146 280
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.43% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.48% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 103 193
10th Percentile £325 £275 £330
25th Percentile £375 £359 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.27%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £638
90th Percentile £650 £695 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +12.78% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £30.67 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £38.26 £23.43
Median hourly rate £62.50 £51.55 £56.18
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% -8.24% +14.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.46 £91.13
90th Percentile - £73.44 £92.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.60 £23.86
% change year-on-year - +7.32% -51.32%

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 32,245 30,148 39,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.48% 87.93% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,297 18,397 26,233
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,086 1,007 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.85 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.99% -27.21% +39.06%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing System Integration Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

System Integration Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing System Integration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing System Integration Testing

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing System Integration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing System Integration Testing

System Integration Testing
Top 15 Contract Job 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 15 December 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 +49 215 £490 +3.16% 186
London +2 106 £400 -15.79% 21
UK excluding London +19 105 £508 +12.78% 176
Work from Home +24 54 £525 +16.67% 19
South East +19 30 £554 +12.15% 48
North of England -19 30 £526 +61.92% 36
Midlands -22 30 £450 -22.68% 40
West Midlands -20 22 £480 -21.82% 16
North West -14 14 £556 +71.15% 16
Yorkshire -32 11 £468 - 17
East Midlands -10 8 £360 +20.00% 21
East of England -15 8 £488 -11.36% 28
North East - 5 £515 - 3
South West -9 4 £475 +5.56% 17
Scotland +2 3 £481 - 5

System Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (9.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (9.44%) Oracle EBS
2 17 (7.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (6.01%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (4.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 9 (3.86%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (3.00%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (2.58%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (2.15%) Oracle Manufacturing
9 4 (1.72%) NetSuite
9 4 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (1.29%) Algo Collateral
10 3 (1.29%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (1.29%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (1.29%) SAP CO
10 3 (1.29%) SAP FI
10 3 (1.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (1.29%) SAP HR
10 3 (1.29%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.86%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (18.03%) Azure
2 23 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (8.58%) OCI
4 18 (7.73%) GCP
4 18 (7.73%) SaaS
5 14 (6.01%) AWS
6 6 (2.58%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.58%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.15%) GitHub
8 3 (1.29%) Boomi
8 3 (1.29%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.86%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.86%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.86%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.86%) Serverless
9 2 (0.86%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DSL
1 1 (0.43%) FTP
1 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.01%) Oracle Reports
2 11 (4.72%) BigQuery
2 11 (4.72%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (2.15%) MySQL
5 3 (1.29%) Power BI
6 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.86%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) Power Query
7 1 (0.43%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (26.61%) JIRA
2 19 (8.15%) Selenium
3 11 (4.72%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.29%) Postman
5 8 (3.43%) GitLab
6 7 (3.00%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.00%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.58%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (2.58%) TestRail
7 6 (2.58%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.29%) Git
8 3 (1.29%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.86%) Gatling
9 2 (0.86%) JMeter
9 2 (0.86%) Locust
9 2 (0.86%) TestPartner
10 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.43%) Xcode
General
1 95 (40.77%) Social Skills
2 79 (33.91%) Finance
3 28 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.15%) Banking
5 16 (6.87%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.01%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.58%) General Ledger
7 13 (5.58%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Legal
10 5 (2.15%) Back Office
10 5 (2.15%) Billing
10 5 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.72%) Dutch Language
11 4 (1.72%) Retail
12 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.29%) Local Government
13 2 (0.86%) Front Office
13 2 (0.86%) Law
13 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (30.47%) Analyst
2 52 (22.32%) Lead
3 45 (19.31%) Test Analyst
4 35 (15.02%) Consultant
5 29 (12.45%) Senior
6 20 (8.58%) Senior Analyst
6 20 (8.58%) Tester
7 19 (8.15%) Business Analyst
8 18 (7.73%) Senior Test Analyst
8 18 (7.73%) Test Leader
9 16 (6.87%) SAP Consultant
10 14 (6.01%) Test Manager
11 12 (5.15%) Oracle Consultant
12 10 (4.29%) Integration Analyst
12 10 (4.29%) Integration Test Analyst
12 10 (4.29%) Project Manager
12 10 (4.29%) Service Transition Leader
13 9 (3.86%) Architect
13 9 (3.86%) Systems Analyst
14 8 (3.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (6.01%) REST
3 11 (4.72%) Middleware
3 11 (4.72%) SailPoint
4 10 (4.29%) SOAP
5 8 (3.43%) Playwright
6 7 (3.00%) .NET
6 7 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
7 6 (2.58%) ADO
7 6 (2.58%) OpenID
7 6 (2.58%) Web Services
8 5 (2.15%) LDAP
8 5 (2.15%) RESTful
9 4 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (1.72%) WebdriverIO
10 3 (1.29%) EDI
10 3 (1.29%) Kafka
11 2 (0.86%) BAPI
11 2 (0.86%) Spring
11 2 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.43%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.58%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.15%) Derivative
5 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.72%) SCADA
6 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.29%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.86%) AS400
7 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.86%) IVR
7 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.86%) PMI
7 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.87%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Android
2 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.43%) VMS
2 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (71.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 97 (41.63%) Integration Testing
3 64 (27.47%) Agile
4 53 (22.75%) Test Automation
5 48 (20.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 44 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (18.88%) Test Scripting
7 42 (18.03%) Migration
7 42 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (16.74%) Waterfall
9 38 (16.31%) DevOps
9 38 (16.31%) Scenario Testing
10 35 (15.02%) Test Strategy
11 34 (14.59%) ERP
11 34 (14.59%) Test Management
12 31 (13.30%) Defect Management
12 31 (13.30%) Validation
13 27 (11.59%) Data Migration
14 26 (11.16%) CI/CD
15 25 (10.73%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.60%) SQL
2 13 (5.58%) Java
3 8 (3.43%) JavaScript
3 8 (3.43%) Python
4 6 (2.58%) C#
5 5 (2.15%) PHP
5 5 (2.15%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.72%) ABAP
6 4 (1.72%) VB
7 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.86%) Korn
8 2 (0.86%) Ruby
9 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (6.44%) ISTQB
2 14 (6.01%) Degree
3 10 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.72%) CBAP
6 4 (1.72%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.86%) ISEB
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) IIBA
9 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.43%) MBA
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.43%) PMP
9 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.17%) QA
2 9 (3.86%) GDPR
3 6 (2.58%) SEPA
4 5 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.72%) PMO
6 3 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.29%) PSD2
7 2 (0.86%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.86%) SLA
7 2 (0.86%) WCAG
8 1 (0.43%) FATCA
8 1 (0.43%) HL7
8 1 (0.43%) IFRS
8 1 (0.43%) MiFID
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (4.29%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.86%) Grafana
3 2 (0.86%) Kibana
3 2 (0.86%) Terraform
4 1 (0.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 69 (29.61%) Oracle
2 33 (14.16%) SAP
3 23 (9.87%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.72%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.29%) HP
6 7 (3.00%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.15%) Workday
8 3 (1.29%) Freshdesk
8 3 (1.29%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.29%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (1.29%) SmartStream
9 2 (0.86%) Charles River
9 2 (0.86%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.86%) Google
9 2 (0.86%) IBM
9 2 (0.86%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.86%) Siebel
9 2 (0.86%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.86%) Splunk