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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 315 331
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 270 460 707
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.83% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.92% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 288 463
10th Percentile £306 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £746 £712 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £505 £475
% change year-on-year +11.39% +6.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 23
10th Percentile £50.08 £52.13 £45.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £62.25 £78.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +20.83% +14.29%

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 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +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%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 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 -13 222 £525 +2.94% 113
London +45 131 £525 - 30
UK excluding London -43 98 £563 +11.39% 82
Work from Home +2 85 £500 -1.96% 41
South East -10 40 £675 - 16
Scotland +45 15 £607 +15.57% 7
North of England +7 15 £488 -7.14% 24
Midlands +2 15 £513 -13.87% 12
North West +16 11 £488 +68.10% 12
West Midlands -3 11 £525 -5.83% 8
East of England +1 10 £313 -37.50% 18
Yorkshire +7 4 £463 -10.63% 11
East Midlands +7 4 £500 -16.67% 4
Northern Ireland +1 2 - -
South West -27 1 £475 +5.56% 10

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 11 (4.07%) Apache
2 9 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.48%) IIS
3 4 (1.48%) JBoss
4 3 (1.11%) CMS
5 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) Mule
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.85%) Simulink
3 5 (1.85%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.85%) TargetLink
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.74%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 17 (6.30%) SAP EWM
2 14 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (4.81%) SAP QM
4 6 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (1.85%) ION MarketView
6 4 (1.48%) Endur
6 4 (1.48%) SAP CO
6 4 (1.48%) SAP FI
6 4 (1.48%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (1.48%) SAP PP
6 4 (1.48%) SAP SD
6 4 (1.48%) SAP VC
7 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (1.11%) OPENHousing
7 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (1.11%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.74%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.37%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.93%) Azure
2 40 (14.81%) AWS
3 17 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.59%) SaaS
5 6 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (2.22%) Serverless
6 5 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.48%) OCI
7 4 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.11%) Boomi
8 3 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.11%) GCP
8 3 (1.11%) GitHub
8 3 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.44%) MPLS
2 9 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (2.96%) BGP
3 8 (2.96%) Ethernet VPN
3 8 (2.96%) VPN
4 6 (2.22%) SNMP
4 6 (2.22%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.48%) PBX
5 4 (1.48%) PSTN
5 4 (1.48%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.59%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.07%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.33%) KDB
6 7 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.85%) DB2
8 5 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.48%) Parquet
9 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.11%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.74%) MySQL
11 2 (0.74%) Power Query
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (13.70%) JIRA
2 24 (8.89%) Git
3 18 (6.67%) Selenium
4 15 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.81%) GitLab
6 9 (3.33%) Visual Studio
7 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.96%) Robot Framework
7 8 (2.96%) TestRail
8 6 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.22%) JUnit
9 5 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.85%) Maven
9 5 (1.85%) Subversion
10 4 (1.48%) Deequ
10 4 (1.48%) NUnit
10 4 (1.48%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.48%) TestNG
10 4 (1.48%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.11%) REST Assured
General
1 51 (18.89%) Finance
1 51 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.04%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.44%) Banking
5 8 (2.96%) Retail
6 7 (2.59%) Legal
7 6 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.85%) Automotive
8 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.48%) Front Office
9 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.11%) Back Office
11 2 (0.74%) Electronics
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (20.00%) Developer
2 38 (14.07%) Analyst
3 35 (12.96%) Senior
4 34 (12.59%) Consultant
5 27 (10.00%) Lead
6 24 (8.89%) Test Analyst
6 24 (8.89%) Test Manager
7 23 (8.52%) SAP Consultant
8 16 (5.93%) Tester
9 15 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.19%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.81%) Architect
11 13 (4.81%) SAP QM Consultant
12 12 (4.44%) Test Engineer
13 10 (3.70%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.70%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.70%) Test Leader
14 8 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
15 7 (2.59%) Network Engineer
15 7 (2.59%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.15%) .NET
1 22 (8.15%) RESTful
2 21 (7.78%) JSON
3 18 (6.67%) SOAP
4 17 (6.30%) REST
5 15 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 15 (5.56%) HTML
5 15 (5.56%) WebSockets
5 15 (5.56%) XML
6 14 (5.19%) Node.js
6 14 (5.19%) React
7 13 (4.81%) CSS
8 12 (4.44%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (3.70%) NETCONF
9 10 (3.70%) Web Services
10 9 (3.33%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.96%) RESTCONF
12 7 (2.59%) YANG
13 6 (2.22%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (2.59%) Algorithms
2 7 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (2.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.48%) Derivative
4 3 (1.11%) CMDB
4 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.11%) NHS
4 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.11%) PACS
4 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.74%) Equities
5 2 (0.74%) Life Science
5 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.74%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.19%) Windows
2 9 (3.33%) Linux
2 9 (3.33%) Unix
3 5 (1.85%) AIX
4 4 (1.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (35.93%) User Acceptance Testing
2 90 (33.33%) Agile
3 75 (27.78%) Test Automation
4 63 (23.33%) Unit Testing
5 47 (17.41%) End-to-End Testing
6 46 (17.04%) CI/CD
7 44 (16.30%) System Integration Testing
8 42 (15.56%) DevOps
9 35 (12.96%) Analytics
10 32 (11.85%) Migration
10 32 (11.85%) Test Strategy
11 31 (11.48%) Test Scripting
12 30 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
13 29 (10.74%) Scrum
14 28 (10.37%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (10.00%) Software Testing
16 24 (8.89%) Performance Testing
16 24 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (8.52%) Software Engineering
18 22 (8.15%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (20.37%) SQL
2 48 (17.78%) Python
3 30 (11.11%) Java
4 25 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.78%) C#
6 9 (3.33%) C++
7 8 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.59%) Bash
8 7 (2.59%) C
9 5 (1.85%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.48%) Scala
11 3 (1.11%) Bicep
11 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.74%) ABAP
12 2 (0.74%) Go
12 2 (0.74%) PHP
12 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.37%) XPath
Qualifications
1 49 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.52%) Degree
4 15 (5.56%) ISEB
4 15 (5.56%) ISTQB
5 10 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.48%) PMP
8 3 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.74%) CCNA
9 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.74%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.89%) QA
2 9 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.85%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (1.85%) ISO 26262
3 5 (1.85%) MISRA
3 5 (1.85%) MISRA C
4 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.11%) GxP
4 3 (1.11%) HL7
4 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (7.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.96%) Terraform
3 4 (1.48%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (1.48%) Tivoli
4 3 (1.11%) Ansible
5 2 (0.74%) Grafana
5 2 (0.74%) Nmap
5 2 (0.74%) OpenNMS
5 2 (0.74%) Podman
6 1 (0.37%) Control-M
6 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 63 (23.33%) SAP
2 32 (11.85%) Oracle
3 21 (7.78%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.44%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.59%) ION Trading
6 6 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.85%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.85%) Ariba
7 5 (1.85%) Murex
8 4 (1.48%) Capita
8 4 (1.48%) Databricks
8 4 (1.48%) F5
8 4 (1.48%) IBM
8 4 (1.48%) Northgate
8 4 (1.48%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.48%) Tradeweb
8 4 (1.48%) Workday
9 3 (1.11%) Blue Prism
9 3 (1.11%) Siemens
10 2 (0.74%) Splunk