Integration Testing Contracts

Integration Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 331 335
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 279 446 687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.77% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.86% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 282 448
10th Percentile £311 £325 £343
25th Percentile £416 £426 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £629 £600
90th Percentile £750 £718 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £523 £475
% change year-on-year +14.83% +10.00% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 24 23
10th Percentile £50.08 £39.44 £45.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.13 £49.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +18.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £62.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £77.10 £65.54
UK excluding London 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

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Integration Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +13 230 £525 - 98
London +68 130 £521 -2.99% 29
UK excluding London -18 108 £600 +14.83% 68
Work from Home +39 98 £500 -7.41% 53
South East +26 49 £675 +12.22% 11
Midlands +15 16 £525 -11.46% 15
Scotland +49 15 £607 +12.88% 3
West Midlands +7 13 £544 +2.11% 7
North of England +2 12 £488 -11.36% 17
East of England +4 10 £313 -37.50% 15
North West +11 9 £488 +68.10% 10
South West -21 4 £600 +33.33% 8
East Midlands +19 3 £500 -16.67% 8
Yorkshire +8 3 £470 -9.18% 6
Northern Ireland +6 2 - -

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 17 (6.09%) Apache
2 15 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.43%) Confluence
3 4 (1.43%) IIS
3 4 (1.43%) JBoss
4 3 (1.08%) CMS
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.79%) Simulink
3 5 (1.79%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.79%) TargetLink
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.72%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 19 (6.81%) SAP EWM
2 13 (4.66%) SAP QM
2 13 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (2.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.43%) Endur
4 4 (1.43%) ION MarketView
4 4 (1.43%) SAP PP
4 4 (1.43%) SAP VC
5 3 (1.08%) OPENHousing
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.08%) SAP GTS
5 3 (1.08%) SAP PM
5 3 (1.08%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.72%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.72%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.72%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.49%) Azure
2 37 (13.26%) AWS
3 22 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (2.87%) Serverless
5 7 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (2.51%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.51%) SaaS
6 5 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (1.79%) GitHub
7 4 (1.43%) Azure Functions
7 4 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.43%) OCI
7 4 (1.43%) PaaS
8 3 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.08%) NuGet
8 3 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.73%) MPLS
2 13 (4.66%) Radio Access Network
3 12 (4.30%) BGP
3 12 (4.30%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (4.30%) VPN
4 6 (2.15%) SNMP
4 6 (2.15%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.43%) PBX
5 4 (1.43%) PSTN
5 4 (1.43%) VoIP
6 2 (0.72%) DHCP
6 2 (0.72%) DNS
6 2 (0.72%) FTP
6 2 (0.72%) Internet
6 2 (0.72%) LAN
6 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.72%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.36%) 4G
7 1 (0.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.62%) NoSQL
2 16 (5.73%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.02%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.87%) KDB
6 6 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.15%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.79%) DB2
7 5 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.43%) Parquet
8 4 (1.43%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.72%) Flink
9 2 (0.72%) Power BI
9 2 (0.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 42 (15.05%) JIRA
2 23 (8.24%) Git
3 19 (6.81%) Selenium
4 14 (5.02%) GitLab
4 14 (5.02%) Jenkins
5 12 (4.30%) Robot Framework
5 12 (4.30%) TestRail
6 9 (3.23%) Visual Studio
7 8 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.51%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.15%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.79%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.79%) Subversion
11 4 (1.43%) Deequ
11 4 (1.43%) JUnit
11 4 (1.43%) TestNG
11 4 (1.43%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.08%) webpack
12 3 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.00%) Finance
3 22 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.23%) Banking
6 8 (2.87%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.87%) Retail
6 8 (2.87%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Automotive
8 5 (1.79%) Electronics
8 5 (1.79%) Legal
9 4 (1.43%) Front Office
9 4 (1.43%) Marketing
9 4 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.08%) Back Office
10 3 (1.08%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (19.35%) Developer
2 42 (15.05%) Analyst
3 35 (12.54%) Consultant
4 29 (10.39%) Senior
5 28 (10.04%) Lead
6 25 (8.96%) Test Analyst
6 25 (8.96%) Test Manager
7 23 (8.24%) SAP Consultant
8 20 (7.17%) Test Engineer
9 16 (5.73%) Tester
10 14 (5.02%) Architect
10 14 (5.02%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.66%) SAP QM Consultant
11 13 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.94%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.94%) Test Leader
13 9 (3.23%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.23%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
15 7 (2.51%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.96%) .NET
2 22 (7.89%) REST
3 21 (7.53%) SOAP
4 20 (7.17%) JSON
4 20 (7.17%) RESTful
5 16 (5.73%) WebSockets
6 15 (5.38%) FastAPI
7 14 (5.02%) NETCONF
8 13 (4.66%) React
8 13 (4.66%) XML
9 12 (4.30%) RESTCONF
10 11 (3.94%) CSS
10 11 (3.94%) Node.js
10 11 (3.94%) Oracle Fusion
10 11 (3.94%) YANG
11 10 (3.58%) AngularJS
11 10 (3.58%) HTML
12 8 (2.87%) Web Services
13 7 (2.51%) .NET Framework
14 6 (2.15%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.51%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.43%) Derivative
5 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.08%) CMDB
6 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.08%) NHS
6 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.08%) PACS
6 3 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.08%) Wiki
7 2 (0.72%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.02%) Windows
2 11 (3.94%) Linux
3 8 (2.87%) Unix
4 5 (1.79%) AIX
5 4 (1.43%) Solaris
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (36.20%) User Acceptance Testing
2 91 (32.62%) Agile
3 79 (28.32%) Test Automation
4 64 (22.94%) Unit Testing
5 50 (17.92%) CI/CD
5 50 (17.92%) System Integration Testing
6 47 (16.85%) End-to-End Testing
7 40 (14.34%) DevOps
8 36 (12.90%) Analytics
8 36 (12.90%) Scrum
9 35 (12.54%) Test Strategy
10 34 (12.19%) Migration
11 32 (11.47%) Performance Testing
11 32 (11.47%) Test Scripting
12 31 (11.11%) Regression Testing
13 29 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (10.04%) GAP Analysis
14 28 (10.04%) Software Testing
15 27 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
16 24 (8.60%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (23.30%) SQL
2 55 (19.71%) Python
3 26 (9.32%) Java
4 25 (8.96%) C#
5 23 (8.24%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.23%) C++
7 8 (2.87%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.51%) C
9 5 (1.79%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.43%) Bicep
10 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.08%) ABAP
11 3 (1.08%) Scala
11 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.72%) Bash
12 2 (0.72%) PHP
12 2 (0.72%) SAPscript
13 1 (0.36%) X++
13 1 (0.36%) XPath
Qualifications
1 47 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.89%) Degree
4 17 (6.09%) ISTQB
5 14 (5.02%) ISEB
6 8 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.43%) PMP
9 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.08%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.08%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.72%) CCNA
10 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.72%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.39%) QA
2 12 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.79%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.79%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.79%) MISRA
4 5 (1.79%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.08%) GxP
5 3 (1.08%) HL7
5 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.72%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.72%) GDPR
6 2 (0.72%) NIST
6 2 (0.72%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (7.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (4.30%) Terraform
2 8 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (1.43%) Tivoli
4 2 (0.72%) Ansible
4 2 (0.72%) Nmap
4 2 (0.72%) OpenNMS
5 1 (0.36%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 70 (25.09%) SAP
2 33 (11.83%) Oracle
3 25 (8.96%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.30%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.15%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.43%) Ariba
8 4 (1.43%) Blue Prism
8 4 (1.43%) Capita
8 4 (1.43%) Databricks
8 4 (1.43%) F5
8 4 (1.43%) IBM
8 4 (1.43%) Murex
8 4 (1.43%) Northgate
9 3 (1.08%) Adobe
9 3 (1.08%) Cisco
9 3 (1.08%) Siemens
9 3 (1.08%) Tradeweb