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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 317 330
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +37
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 272 441 712
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.77% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.86% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 278 461
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £600
90th Percentile £761 £707 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £516 £475
% change year-on-year +16.22% +8.68% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 22
10th Percentile £50.08 £44.67 £45.13
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.55 £49.00
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 £62.25 £77.40 £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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +13 223 £545 +3.81% 109
London +73 125 £521 -1.85% 27
UK excluding London -6 106 £600 +16.22% 87
Work from Home +16 93 £500 -6.98% 51
South East +33 48 £675 +12.22% 20
Scotland +48 15 £607 +15.57% 4
Midlands +4 14 £513 -13.87% 16
North of England +8 12 £488 -11.36% 18
West Midlands +9 11 £525 -5.83% 8
East of England +1 11 £313 -37.50% 20
North West +17 9 £488 +68.10% 10
South West -28 4 £600 +33.33% 10
East Midlands +9 3 £500 -16.67% 8
Yorkshire +4 3 £470 -9.18% 7
Northern Ireland +5 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 15 (5.51%) Apache
2 13 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.47%) Confluence
3 4 (1.47%) IIS
3 4 (1.47%) JBoss
4 3 (1.10%) CMS
5 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.84%) Simulink
3 5 (1.84%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.84%) TargetLink
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.74%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 19 (6.99%) SAP EWM
2 14 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (4.78%) SAP QM
4 6 (2.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (1.84%) ION MarketView
6 4 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (1.47%) Endur
6 4 (1.47%) SAP PP
6 4 (1.47%) SAP VC
7 3 (1.10%) OPENHousing
7 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (1.10%) SAP GTS
7 3 (1.10%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.74%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.74%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.74%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.74%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.81%) Azure
2 36 (13.24%) AWS
3 19 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (2.57%) SaaS
5 6 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (2.21%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.21%) Serverless
6 5 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (1.47%) GitHub
7 4 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.47%) OCI
8 3 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.10%) Boomi
8 3 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.10%) PaaS
8 3 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.51%) MPLS
2 12 (4.41%) Radio Access Network
3 11 (4.04%) BGP
3 11 (4.04%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (4.04%) VPN
4 6 (2.21%) SNMP
4 6 (2.21%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.47%) PBX
5 4 (1.47%) PSTN
5 4 (1.47%) VoIP
6 2 (0.74%) DHCP
6 2 (0.74%) DNS
6 2 (0.74%) Internet
6 2 (0.74%) LAN
6 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.37%) 4G
7 1 (0.37%) 5G
7 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.97%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 13 (4.78%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.31%) KDB
6 6 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.84%) DB2
7 5 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.47%) Parquet
8 4 (1.47%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.74%) Power BI
9 2 (0.74%) Power Query
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 41 (15.07%) JIRA
2 20 (7.35%) Git
3 19 (6.99%) Selenium
4 14 (5.15%) GitLab
4 14 (5.15%) Jenkins
5 11 (4.04%) Robot Framework
5 11 (4.04%) TestRail
6 10 (3.68%) Visual Studio
7 8 (2.94%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.57%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.84%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.84%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.84%) Subversion
10 4 (1.47%) Deequ
10 4 (1.47%) JUnit
10 4 (1.47%) TestNG
10 4 (1.47%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.10%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.10%) webpack
11 3 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.38%) Finance
3 22 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.31%) Banking
6 8 (2.94%) Retail
7 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.84%) Automotive
8 5 (1.84%) Legal
8 5 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.47%) Front Office
9 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.47%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.10%) Back Office
10 3 (1.10%) Military
11 2 (0.74%) Electronics
11 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (19.85%) Developer
2 41 (15.07%) Analyst
3 35 (12.87%) Consultant
4 30 (11.03%) Senior
5 28 (10.29%) Lead
6 25 (9.19%) Test Analyst
6 25 (9.19%) Test Manager
7 23 (8.46%) SAP Consultant
8 19 (6.99%) Test Engineer
9 14 (5.15%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.15%) Software Developer
9 14 (5.15%) Tester
10 13 (4.78%) Architect
10 13 (4.78%) SAP QM Consultant
11 11 (4.04%) Test Leader
12 10 (3.68%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.68%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (2.57%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.82%) .NET
2 20 (7.35%) JSON
2 20 (7.35%) RESTful
3 19 (6.99%) REST
3 19 (6.99%) SOAP
4 16 (5.88%) WebSockets
5 15 (5.51%) FastAPI
6 13 (4.78%) NETCONF
6 13 (4.78%) React
6 13 (4.78%) XML
7 11 (4.04%) CSS
7 11 (4.04%) HTML
7 11 (4.04%) Node.js
7 11 (4.04%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (4.04%) RESTCONF
8 10 (3.68%) YANG
9 9 (3.31%) Web Services
10 8 (2.94%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.21%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.21%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (3.31%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.57%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.47%) Derivative
5 3 (1.10%) CMDB
5 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.10%) NHS
5 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.10%) PACS
5 3 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.74%) CCTV
6 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.74%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.15%) Windows
2 10 (3.68%) Linux
3 8 (2.94%) Unix
4 5 (1.84%) AIX
5 4 (1.47%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (36.40%) User Acceptance Testing
2 90 (33.09%) Agile
3 77 (28.31%) Test Automation
4 62 (22.79%) Unit Testing
5 50 (18.38%) System Integration Testing
6 48 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
7 46 (16.91%) CI/CD
8 36 (13.24%) Analytics
8 36 (13.24%) DevOps
9 34 (12.50%) Test Strategy
10 32 (11.76%) Migration
10 32 (11.76%) Scrum
11 31 (11.40%) Performance Testing
12 30 (11.03%) Test Scripting
13 29 (10.66%) Regression Testing
14 28 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (10.29%) GAP Analysis
14 28 (10.29%) Software Testing
15 25 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (8.46%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.79%) SQL
2 53 (19.49%) Python
3 28 (10.29%) Java
4 24 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 23 (8.46%) C#
6 9 (3.31%) C++
7 8 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.57%) C
9 5 (1.84%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.47%) ABAP
11 3 (1.10%) Bicep
11 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.10%) Scala
11 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.74%) Bash
12 2 (0.74%) PHP
12 2 (0.74%) SAPscript
13 1 (0.37%) VBA
13 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.72%) Degree
4 17 (6.25%) ISTQB
5 14 (5.15%) ISEB
6 8 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.47%) PMP
9 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.74%) CCNA
10 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.74%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.29%) QA
2 10 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.84%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.84%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.84%) MISRA
4 5 (1.84%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.10%) GxP
5 3 (1.10%) HL7
5 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.74%) GDPR
6 2 (0.74%) PMO
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (6.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 8 (2.94%) Terraform
2 4 (1.47%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.47%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.74%) Ansible
3 2 (0.74%) Nmap
3 2 (0.74%) OpenNMS
4 1 (0.37%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.37%) Control-M
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 66 (24.26%) SAP
2 33 (12.13%) Oracle
3 23 (8.46%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.41%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.57%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.84%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.84%) Ariba
7 4 (1.47%) Blue Prism
7 4 (1.47%) Capita
7 4 (1.47%) Databricks
7 4 (1.47%) F5
7 4 (1.47%) IBM
7 4 (1.47%) Murex
7 4 (1.47%) Northgate
7 4 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.47%) Tradeweb
8 3 (1.10%) Adobe
8 3 (1.10%) Cisco
8 3 (1.10%) Siemens