Integration Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Integration Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 286 315
Rank change year-on-year +43 +29 +13
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 103 191 339
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.75% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.83% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 124 231
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £578
90th Percentile £737 £696 £657
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 12
10th Percentile - £63.25 £46.53
25th Percentile £83.50 £70.94 £49.00
Median hourly rate £85.00 £73.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% +28.26% +4.07%
75th Percentile £86.50 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.30% +18.75% +25.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Integration Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Integration Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Integration Testing.

Integration Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Integration Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Integration Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Integration Testing.

Integration Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.91%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) IIS
2 2 (1.94%) JBoss
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) CMS
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (5.83%) SAP EWM
2 4 (3.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (3.88%) SAP PM
2 4 (3.88%) SAP QM
3 3 (2.91%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.94%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.94%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.97%) iTrent
5 1 (0.97%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.97%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.97%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.97%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.36%) AWS
1 22 (21.36%) Azure
2 14 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.83%) SaaS
4 5 (4.85%) Serverless
5 4 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.91%) Azure Functions
6 3 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.91%) GitHub
6 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.94%) Azure App Service
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.94%) OCI
7 2 (1.94%) PaaS
7 2 (1.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) FTP
1 2 (1.94%) Internet
2 1 (0.97%) 4G
2 1 (0.97%) 5G
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.59%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.94%) DB2
4 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.97%) Parquet
5 1 (0.97%) Power Query
5 1 (0.97%) Redis
5 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) JIRA
2 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.71%) Selenium
3 8 (7.77%) Git
4 5 (4.85%) JUnit
4 5 (4.85%) REST Assured
4 5 (4.85%) TestNG
5 4 (3.88%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.91%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.91%) JMeter
7 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.94%) MSTest
7 2 (1.94%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.94%) TestComplete
7 2 (1.94%) Vagrant
7 2 (1.94%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.97%) Moq
8 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (20.39%) Finance
2 20 (19.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.71%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.91%) Marketing
6 3 (2.91%) Military
6 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.94%) Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Electronics
7 2 (1.94%) Legal
7 2 (1.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Local Government
8 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (27.18%) Developer
2 14 (13.59%) Analyst
3 12 (11.65%) Test Manager
4 10 (9.71%) Lead
4 10 (9.71%) Senior
4 10 (9.71%) Test Analyst
5 9 (8.74%) Test Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Software Developer
7 5 (4.85%) C# Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Consultant
7 5 (4.85%) Python Developer
7 5 (4.85%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (4.85%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Test Leader
8 4 (3.88%) .NET Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.88%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) SAP QM Consultant
8 4 (3.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) WebSockets
2 11 (10.68%) FastAPI
2 11 (10.68%) RESTful
3 10 (9.71%) .NET
4 7 (6.80%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.80%) Web Services
5 6 (5.83%) CSS
5 6 (5.83%) JSON
5 6 (5.83%) REST
6 5 (4.85%) HTML
6 5 (4.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (3.88%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.88%) Node.js
7 4 (3.88%) SOAP
7 4 (3.88%) Swagger
7 4 (3.88%) XML
8 3 (2.91%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.91%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.91%) YAML
9 2 (1.94%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.94%) CMDB
2 2 (1.94%) Derivative
2 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.97%) EPoS
3 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.97%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (0.97%) IoT
3 1 (0.97%) Life Science
3 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.97%) N-Tier
3 1 (0.97%) PKI
3 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.97%) Replication
3 1 (0.97%) W3C
3 1 (0.97%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.83%) Windows
2 3 (2.91%) Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Unix
3 2 (1.94%) AIX
3 2 (1.94%) Solaris
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.01%) User Acceptance Testing
2 33 (32.04%) Agile
3 25 (24.27%) Test Automation
4 24 (23.30%) DevOps
4 24 (23.30%) Unit Testing
5 23 (22.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 22 (21.36%) CI/CD
7 16 (15.53%) Analytics
8 15 (14.56%) Functional Testing
8 15 (14.56%) System Integration Testing
8 15 (14.56%) Test Scripting
9 14 (13.59%) API Development
9 14 (13.59%) Defect Management
9 14 (13.59%) Migration
9 14 (13.59%) Software Testing
10 13 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.62%) Test Management
10 13 (12.62%) Test Strategy
11 12 (11.65%) ERP
11 12 (11.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.33%) SQL
2 22 (21.36%) Python
3 15 (14.56%) JavaScript
4 13 (12.62%) C#
5 12 (11.65%) Java
6 2 (1.94%) Bash
6 2 (1.94%) Bicep
6 2 (1.94%) PHP
6 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.97%) C++
7 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.97%) Scala
7 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (23.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) ISTQB
4 7 (6.80%) ISEB
5 5 (4.85%) Degree
6 4 (3.88%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.94%) PMP
8 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.94%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.97%) GxP
4 1 (0.97%) NCSC
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) Terraform
2 2 (1.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.94%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.97%) Check_MK
3 1 (0.97%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.97%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) SAP
2 13 (12.62%) Oracle
3 8 (7.77%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.83%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.91%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.94%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.94%) Ariba
6 2 (1.94%) F5
6 2 (1.94%) IBM
6 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.97%) Adobe
7 1 (0.97%) Databricks
7 1 (0.97%) Dell
7 1 (0.97%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.97%) HP
7 1 (0.97%) iManage
7 1 (0.97%) Murex
7 1 (0.97%) Splunk
7 1 (0.97%) Workday