Hybrid/Remote Integration Testing Contract Job Trends

Integration Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 251 204
Rank change year-on-year +35 -47 +149
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 102 65 197
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 0.54% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.61% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 41 134
10th Percentile £325 £325 £308
25th Percentile £400 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -4.76% -4.20%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £618
90th Percentile £600 £671 £690
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile - £26.28 £70.00
25th Percentile - £26.31 £82.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +145.28% -68.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile - £26.69 £86.50
90th Percentile £75.95 £26.73 £87.30
UK median hourly rate £67.75 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +155.66% -62.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Integration Testing and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Integration Testing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Integration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Integration Testing over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Integration Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Integration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Integration Testing over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Integration Testing hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (2.94%) Confluence
1 3 (2.94%) SAS
2 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) Apache
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.98%) Mule
3 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (6.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.94%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.96%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.96%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.96%) SAP Travel Management
3 2 (1.96%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.98%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.98%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.98%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.98%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.98%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.65%) Azure
2 17 (16.67%) AWS
3 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.86%) GCP
4 7 (6.86%) Serverless
5 6 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.92%) OCI
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.94%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.96%) Boomi
9 2 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.96%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) 4G
1 3 (2.94%) 5G
1 3 (2.94%) Firewall
1 3 (2.94%) HTTP
2 2 (1.96%) DNS
2 2 (1.96%) Internet
2 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.98%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.90%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.96%) DB2
5 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.96%) MySQL
5 2 (1.96%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.98%) Aerospike
6 1 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.98%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.98%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.98%) Power BI
6 1 (0.98%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.69%) GitLab
2 16 (15.69%) JIRA
3 14 (13.73%) Git
4 12 (11.76%) Selenium
5 9 (8.82%) JUnit
6 5 (4.90%) Appium
6 5 (4.90%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.90%) JMeter
7 4 (3.92%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.92%) Postman
7 4 (3.92%) Rational Rhapsody
7 4 (3.92%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.94%) Mockito
8 3 (2.94%) TestRail
9 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.96%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.96%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.78%) Finance
5 5 (4.90%) Banking
6 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.94%) Military
7 3 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.98%) Back Office
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Legal
8 1 (0.98%) Local Government
8 1 (0.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (19.61%) Developer
2 14 (13.73%) Senior
3 11 (10.78%) Analyst
3 11 (10.78%) Java Developer
3 11 (10.78%) Tester
4 10 (9.80%) Consultant
5 9 (8.82%) Lead
5 9 (8.82%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (7.84%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (5.88%) Test Analyst
8 6 (5.88%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Test Specialist
9 5 (4.90%) Architect
9 5 (4.90%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.92%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Scala Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.92%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) REST
2 12 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 10 (9.80%) Spring
4 7 (6.86%) Playwright
4 7 (6.86%) RESTful
5 6 (5.88%) pytest
6 5 (4.90%) Kafka
6 5 (4.90%) Node.js
7 4 (3.92%) ADO
7 4 (3.92%) CSS
7 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.92%) HTML
7 4 (3.92%) JSON
7 4 (3.92%) Play Framework
7 4 (3.92%) WireMock
8 3 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (2.94%) RAML
8 3 (2.94%) SailPoint
8 3 (2.94%) SOAP
8 3 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.92%) CUDA
2 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.92%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.94%) PKI
4 2 (1.96%) Derivative
4 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.96%) IVR
4 2 (1.96%) SCADA
4 2 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.98%) Life Science
5 1 (0.98%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.90%) Windows
2 3 (2.94%) Linux
2 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.96%) Android
3 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.20%) Agile
2 37 (36.27%) CI/CD
2 37 (36.27%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (31.37%) Test Automation
4 31 (30.39%) User Acceptance Testing
5 28 (27.45%) Unit Testing
6 26 (25.49%) DevOps
7 22 (21.57%) System Integration Testing
8 21 (20.59%) Test Scripting
9 19 (18.63%) Containerisation
10 17 (16.67%) Microservices
10 17 (16.67%) Scrum
10 17 (16.67%) Software Testing
11 15 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (12.75%) Code Quality
12 13 (12.75%) Regression Testing
12 13 (12.75%) Software Engineering
13 12 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (11.76%) Validation
14 10 (9.80%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.61%) Java
2 11 (10.78%) SQL
3 9 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 9 (8.82%) Python
4 8 (7.84%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.92%) C#
5 4 (3.92%) C++
5 4 (3.92%) Scala
6 3 (2.94%) ABAP
7 1 (0.98%) C
7 1 (0.98%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.98%) Groovy
7 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.98%) PHP
7 1 (0.98%) R
7 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) Degree
4 4 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.94%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.98%) MBA
7 1 (0.98%) OCP
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (22.55%) QA
2 10 (9.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.88%) WCAG
4 3 (2.94%) GDPR
4 3 (2.94%) NCSC
5 2 (1.96%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.96%) PSD2
5 2 (1.96%) SEPA
6 1 (0.98%) GMP
6 1 (0.98%) GxP
6 1 (0.98%) HL7
6 1 (0.98%) IFRS
6 1 (0.98%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.98%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.98%) PMO
6 1 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (13.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.98%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.98%) OpenDJ
2 1 (0.98%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.92%) Ansible
2 4 (3.92%) Grafana
2 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
2 4 (3.92%) Terraform
3 3 (2.94%) Check_MK
4 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.96%) Puppet
4 2 (1.96%) Rsyslog
4 2 (1.96%) SCOM
5 1 (0.98%) Cilium
5 1 (0.98%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.98%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.98%) Kibana
5 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.69%) SAP
2 8 (7.84%) Oracle
3 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.92%) Google
5 4 (3.92%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.94%) Cisco
6 3 (2.94%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.94%) Juniper
6 3 (2.94%) Splunk
7 2 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.96%) HP
7 2 (1.96%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.96%) Optimizely
7 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.96%) Siebel
7 2 (1.96%) Sybase
8 1 (0.98%) Ariba
8 1 (0.98%) Pega