Integration Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 271 289
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 -25
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 107 178 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.77% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.86% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 117 157
10th Percentile £310 £300 £343
25th Percentile £450 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% +15.85%
75th Percentile £735 £603 £540
90th Percentile £765 £700 £603
UK median daily rate £532 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 15
10th Percentile - £48.40 £44.81
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.13 £48.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £63.13 £76.20 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +20.83% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +20 48 £675 +12.50% 20
Scotland +48 15 £607 +15.57% 7
Midlands -1 14 £513 -13.87% 15
North of England +6 13 £488 -11.36% 20
East of England +8 11 £313 -37.50% 21
West Midlands +7 11 £525 -5.83% 8
North West +12 9 £488 +68.10% 11
Yorkshire +9 4 £450 -13.04% 8
South West -26 4 £600 +33.33% 14
East Midlands +12 3 £500 -16.67% 7
Northern Ireland +4 2 - -
Integration Testing
UK

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (8.41%) Apache
1 9 (8.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Simulink
1 5 (4.67%) Stateflow
1 5 (4.67%) TargetLink
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (15.89%) SAP EWM
2 13 (12.15%) SAP QM
3 4 (3.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.93%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.93%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.93%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.93%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.69%) Azure
2 10 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.54%) AWS
4 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.80%) OCI
4 3 (2.80%) SaaS
5 2 (1.87%) Boomi
5 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.87%) Serverless
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.93%) Figma
6 1 (0.93%) GitHub
6 1 (0.93%) npm
6 1 (0.93%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) BGP
1 9 (8.41%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (8.41%) MPLS
1 9 (8.41%) Radio Access Network
1 9 (8.41%) VPN
2 1 (0.93%) 4G
2 1 (0.93%) 5G
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) MongoDB
1 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
1 9 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.74%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.93%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) JIRA
2 11 (10.28%) Git
2 11 (10.28%) GitLab
3 9 (8.41%) Robot Framework
3 9 (8.41%) TestRail
4 6 (5.61%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.67%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.67%) Selenium
5 5 (4.67%) Subversion
5 5 (4.67%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.87%) Maven
6 2 (1.87%) NUnit
6 2 (1.87%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.93%) JMeter
7 1 (0.93%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.93%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.93%) TestNG
7 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.08%) Finance
3 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.67%) Automotive
6 3 (2.80%) Military
7 2 (1.87%) Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Electronics
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Retail Finance
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (21.50%) Consultant
2 17 (15.89%) SAP Consultant
3 16 (14.95%) Test Engineer
4 14 (13.08%) Test Manager
5 13 (12.15%) Analyst
5 13 (12.15%) SAP QM Consultant
6 12 (11.21%) Developer
7 8 (7.48%) Network Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Test Analyst
8 7 (6.54%) Lead
8 7 (6.54%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Senior
9 6 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Control Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) SAP EWM Consultant
11 4 (3.74%) Architect
11 4 (3.74%) Test Leader
11 4 (3.74%) Tester
12 3 (2.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) SOAP
2 11 (10.28%) REST
3 10 (9.35%) .NET
4 9 (8.41%) NETCONF
4 9 (8.41%) RESTCONF
4 9 (8.41%) YANG
5 8 (7.48%) CSS
6 7 (6.54%) HTML
7 6 (5.61%) JSON
8 5 (4.67%) Node.js
9 4 (3.74%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.74%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (3.74%) React
10 3 (2.80%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.80%) Jest
10 3 (2.80%) Web Services
10 3 (2.80%) XML
11 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.87%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.67%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.87%) Equities
4 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) CMDB
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.93%) PKI
5 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.80%) Windows
2 2 (1.87%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) AIX
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) User Acceptance Testing
2 38 (35.51%) Agile
3 31 (28.97%) Test Automation
4 24 (22.43%) GAP Analysis
4 24 (22.43%) System Integration Testing
5 22 (20.56%) Unit Testing
6 20 (18.69%) Workshop Facilitation
7 19 (17.76%) DevOps
8 16 (14.95%) Performance Testing
8 16 (14.95%) Software Testing
9 15 (14.02%) Security Testing
10 14 (13.08%) CI/CD
10 14 (13.08%) Functional Testing
10 14 (13.08%) Regression Testing
10 14 (13.08%) Scrum
10 14 (13.08%) Test Scripting
11 12 (11.21%) End-to-End Testing
11 12 (11.21%) ERP
11 12 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (11.21%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.15%) JavaScript
1 13 (12.15%) SQL
2 11 (10.28%) Python
3 9 (8.41%) C#
4 6 (5.61%) C
5 5 (4.67%) Java
5 5 (4.67%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.87%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) ABAP
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) X++
Qualifications
1 31 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.02%) Degree
4 8 (7.48%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.48%) ISTQB
5 6 (5.61%) ISEB
5 6 (5.61%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.87%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (4.67%) ISO 26262
2 5 (4.67%) MISRA
2 5 (4.67%) MISRA C
3 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.80%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.87%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.87%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) GxP
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (11.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.87%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 37 (34.58%) SAP
2 12 (11.21%) Oracle
3 7 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.74%) Blue Prism
5 3 (2.80%) Siemens
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco
6 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.93%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.93%) Juniper
6 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.93%) NEC
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.93%) Software AG
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Talend
6 1 (0.93%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.93%) Workday