System Integration Testing Contracts

System Integration Testing (SIT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for System Integration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Integration Testing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 435 521
Rank change year-on-year +14 +86 -24
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 162 280 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.54% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 200 239
10th Percentile £314 £375 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £575
90th Percentile £712 £709 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £48.97 £38.53
25th Percentile - £51.92 £38.94
Median hourly rate - £57.85 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year - +41.95% -0.61%
75th Percentile - £62.77 £42.44
90th Percentile - £65.12 £42.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.85 £40.75
% change year-on-year - +41.95% -7.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

System 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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
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 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System 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 System Integration Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +11 138 £513 -6.82% 26
London +39 72 £550 -6.98% 4
UK excluding London +17 63 £488 -2.50% 19
Work from Home +57 55 £526 +5.25% 12
South East +17 24 £500 +17.65% 2
Midlands +31 14 £400 -20.00% 3
North of England -5 8 £488 -9.72% 4
East Midlands - 8 £380 - 1
East of England +18 7 £525 -25.00% 8
West Midlands +15 6 £469 -6.25% 2
Scotland +36 5 £513 +2.50%
South West +18 5 - - 1
North West +6 5 £488 -2.50% 3
Yorkshire +8 3 £550 +15.79% 1
Wales +16 1 £160 -69.52%

System 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 3 (1.85%) Confluence
2 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (9.26%) Oracle Applications
2 10 (6.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (5.56%) Loan IQ
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (2.47%) SAP CO
4 4 (2.47%) SAP FI
4 4 (2.47%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle AGIS
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (1.23%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.62%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.73%) OCI
2 15 (9.26%) Azure
3 10 (6.17%) Oracle CX
4 9 (5.56%) AWS
4 9 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 7 (4.32%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.32%) SaaS
6 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.23%) PaaS
8 2 (1.23%) Taleo
9 1 (0.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.62%) Boomi
9 1 (0.62%) GCP
9 1 (0.62%) Miro
9 1 (0.62%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.26%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (4.32%) Power BI
3 6 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.09%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.47%) MS Access
5 4 (2.47%) Tableau
6 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.62%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.62%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 25 (15.43%) JIRA
2 12 (7.41%) TestRail
3 11 (6.79%) LoadRunner
3 11 (6.79%) Selenium
4 10 (6.17%) JMeter
5 7 (4.32%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.47%) Git
6 4 (2.47%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.47%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.85%) FitNesse
7 3 (1.85%) JUnit
7 3 (1.85%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.85%) TestNG
8 2 (1.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.62%) GitLab
9 1 (0.62%) Log4Net
9 1 (0.62%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.62%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.62%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.93%) Finance
3 22 (13.58%) Banking
4 13 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.41%) Retail
6 8 (4.94%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.32%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.09%) Law
9 5 (3.09%) Legal
10 4 (2.47%) Billing
10 4 (2.47%) Front Office
10 4 (2.47%) Social Housing
11 3 (1.85%) Back Office
11 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.85%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.85%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (19.75%) Lead
2 31 (19.14%) Analyst
3 16 (9.88%) Test Manager
4 15 (9.26%) Test Analyst
4 15 (9.26%) Test Leader
5 14 (8.64%) Test Engineer
5 14 (8.64%) Tester
6 13 (8.02%) Consultant
7 10 (6.17%) Developer
7 10 (6.17%) Senior
8 7 (4.32%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.70%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.09%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.09%) Cloud Consultant
10 5 (3.09%) Cloud Specialist
10 5 (3.09%) Oracle Consultant
10 5 (3.09%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
10 5 (3.09%) Oracle Specialist
10 5 (3.09%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.94%) Oracle Fusion
1 8 (4.94%) XML
2 5 (3.09%) .NET
2 5 (3.09%) CSS
2 5 (3.09%) HTML
2 5 (3.09%) SOAP
3 4 (2.47%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.47%) IDoc
3 4 (2.47%) JSON
3 4 (2.47%) Web Services
4 3 (1.85%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.85%) Ajax
4 3 (1.85%) React
4 3 (1.85%) REST
5 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.23%) ADO
5 2 (1.23%) Dojo
5 2 (1.23%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.23%) Spring
5 2 (1.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.09%) NHS
2 4 (2.47%) e-Health
2 4 (2.47%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.85%) CMDB
3 3 (1.85%) PACS
3 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.85%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.23%) CCTV
4 2 (1.23%) Equities
4 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.23%) Life Science
4 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.62%) Derivative
5 1 (0.62%) EPoS
5 1 (0.62%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.62%) FMCG
5 1 (0.62%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.62%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.94%) Unix
2 4 (2.47%) Linux
3 2 (1.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.62%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (76.54%) User Acceptance Testing
2 51 (31.48%) Test Strategy
3 50 (30.86%) Integration Testing
4 45 (27.78%) Migration
4 45 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 29 (17.90%) Agile
6 28 (17.28%) Scenario Testing
7 25 (15.43%) End-to-End Testing
8 23 (14.20%) Data Migration
9 21 (12.96%) Test Scripting
10 18 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (10.49%) DevOps
11 17 (10.49%) Software Testing
11 17 (10.49%) Validation
12 16 (9.88%) Defect Management
12 16 (9.88%) ERP
12 16 (9.88%) Functional Testing
13 15 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (9.26%) Project Management
14 14 (8.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.35%) SQL
2 11 (6.79%) Python
3 9 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.09%) C#
5 5 (3.09%) Java
6 1 (0.62%) ABAP
6 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (16.67%) Degree
2 12 (7.41%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.79%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.56%) ISEB
5 8 (4.94%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.32%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.88%) QA
2 13 (8.02%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.47%) EMIR
3 4 (2.47%) GxP
3 4 (2.47%) HL7
3 4 (2.47%) MiFID
4 3 (1.85%) GDPR
4 3 (1.85%) PMO
4 3 (1.85%) SLA
5 2 (1.23%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.62%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (25.31%) Oracle
2 23 (14.20%) SAP
3 8 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.94%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.47%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.47%) FIS
5 2 (1.23%) Cadence
5 2 (1.23%) Murex
5 2 (1.23%) Panasonic
6 1 (0.62%) Ariba
6 1 (0.62%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.62%) HP
6 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.62%) Workday