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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 418 498
Rank change year-on-year -51 +80 -14
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 133 288 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.58% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 200 278
10th Percentile £300 £360 £342
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £567
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £48.97 £38.80
25th Percentile - £51.92 £39.63
Median hourly rate - £57.85 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.73% +2.44%
75th Percentile - £62.77 £43.00
90th Percentile - £65.12 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.85 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +37.73% +2.44%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 14 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 9 June 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 -23 111 £475 -5.00% 22
UK excluding London +2 58 £475 -5.00% 14
London -3 50 £475 -9.52% 4
Work from Home +23 42 £463 -6.57% 7
South East +6 21 £425 - 2
Midlands +26 14 £400 -25.58% 1
East Midlands +19 8 £380 +38.18%
North of England -9 8 £488 -9.72% 3
South West +13 6 £500 +5.26% 1
West Midlands +10 6 £469 -18.48% 1
Scotland +40 5 £513 +10.81% 2
East of England +3 5 £500 -28.57% 5
North West -6 5 £488 -6.25% 2
Yorkshire +4 3 £550 +15.79%

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 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (8.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.01%) SAP CO
2 4 (3.01%) SAP FI
2 4 (3.01%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.26%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.50%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.75%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.75%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.28%) Azure
2 8 (6.02%) AWS
3 7 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.51%) OCI
5 5 (3.76%) SaaS
6 4 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle CX
7 2 (1.50%) PaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.75%) Boomi
8 1 (0.75%) GCP
8 1 (0.75%) Miro
8 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) Power BI
1 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.01%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.01%) MS Access
2 4 (3.01%) Tableau
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (10.53%) JIRA
2 13 (9.77%) LoadRunner
3 11 (8.27%) JMeter
3 11 (8.27%) Selenium
4 7 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.01%) Git
5 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.01%) SoapUI
5 4 (3.01%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.26%) FitNesse
6 3 (2.26%) JUnit
6 3 (2.26%) Postman
6 3 (2.26%) TestNG
6 3 (2.26%) TestRail
7 1 (0.75%) GitLab
7 1 (0.75%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.75%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (25.56%) Finance
2 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.28%) Banking
4 13 (9.77%) Retail
5 11 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.02%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Law
8 5 (3.76%) Legal
9 4 (3.01%) Billing
9 4 (3.01%) Front Office
9 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.01%) Social Housing
10 3 (2.26%) Back Office
10 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.50%) Marketing
11 2 (1.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 29 (21.80%) Analyst
2 22 (16.54%) Lead
3 16 (12.03%) Test Manager
4 15 (11.28%) Tester
5 14 (10.53%) Test Analyst
6 12 (9.02%) Test Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Consultant
7 9 (6.77%) Senior
8 8 (6.02%) Test Leader
9 7 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.76%) Automation Tester
11 5 (3.76%) Cloud Specialist
11 5 (3.76%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
11 5 (3.76%) Oracle Specialist
11 5 (3.76%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Workstream Lead
12 4 (3.01%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.01%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.26%) XML
3 6 (4.51%) SOAP
4 5 (3.76%) CSS
4 5 (3.76%) HTML
5 4 (3.01%) .NET
5 4 (3.01%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.01%) IDoc
5 4 (3.01%) JSON
5 4 (3.01%) Web Services
6 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.26%) Ajax
6 3 (2.26%) React
6 3 (2.26%) REST
7 2 (1.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.50%) Dojo
7 2 (1.50%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.50%) Playwright
7 2 (1.50%) Spring
7 2 (1.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.01%) e-Health
1 4 (3.01%) NHS
2 3 (2.26%) CMDB
2 3 (2.26%) PACS
2 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.26%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.50%) CCTV
3 2 (1.50%) Equities
3 2 (1.50%) FMCG
3 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.50%) Life Science
3 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.75%) Derivative
4 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.75%) EPoS
4 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Unix
2 4 (3.01%) Linux
3 2 (1.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (74.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 44 (33.08%) Integration Testing
3 39 (29.32%) Test Automation
4 34 (25.56%) Migration
5 30 (22.56%) Test Strategy
6 28 (21.05%) Agile
7 26 (19.55%) Scenario Testing
8 24 (18.05%) End-to-End Testing
9 21 (15.79%) Test Scripting
10 19 (14.29%) Data Migration
10 19 (14.29%) DevOps
11 17 (12.78%) Defect Management
11 17 (12.78%) Functional Testing
11 17 (12.78%) Software Testing
12 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (11.28%) Validation
14 14 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (9.77%) Performance Testing
15 13 (9.77%) Waterfall
16 12 (9.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.29%) SQL
2 11 (8.27%) Python
3 9 (6.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.51%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.76%) Java
6 4 (3.01%) C#
7 1 (0.75%) ABAP
7 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) Degree
2 9 (6.77%) ISTQB
3 8 (6.02%) ISEB
4 5 (3.76%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) QA
2 13 (9.77%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.01%) EMIR
3 4 (3.01%) GxP
3 4 (3.01%) MiFID
4 3 (2.26%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) HL7
5 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (18.80%) Oracle
2 22 (16.54%) SAP
3 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.01%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.01%) FIS
6 2 (1.50%) Cadence
6 2 (1.50%) Panasonic
7 1 (0.75%) Ariba
7 1 (0.75%) HP
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.75%) Workday