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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 317 336
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 273 444 717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.78% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.86% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 279 464
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £600
90th Percentile £759 £707 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 21
10th Percentile £50.08 £44.67 £45.00
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £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 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +17 224 £540 +2.86% 123
London +73 125 £521 -1.85% 32
UK excluding London -17 107 £600 +17.07% 98
Work from Home +20 94 £500 -5.88% 51
South East +20 48 £675 +12.50% 20
Scotland +48 15 £607 +15.57% 9
Midlands -1 14 £513 -13.87% 15
North of England +6 13 £488 -11.36% 21
East of England +8 11 £313 -37.50% 21
West Midlands +7 11 £525 -5.83% 8
North West +12 9 £488 +68.10% 12
Yorkshire +9 4 £450 -13.04% 8
South West -26 4 £600 +33.33% 14
East Midlands +12 3 £500 -16.67% 7
Northern Ireland +4 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 (5.49%) Apache
2 13 (4.76%) 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 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.83%) Simulink
3 5 (1.83%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.83%) TargetLink
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.73%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 19 (6.96%) SAP EWM
2 14 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (4.76%) SAP QM
4 6 (2.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (1.83%) 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 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.73%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.73%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.73%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.37%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.75%) Azure
2 36 (13.19%) AWS
3 19 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (2.56%) SaaS
5 6 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (2.20%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.20%) Serverless
6 5 (1.83%) 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 (5.49%) MPLS
2 12 (4.40%) Radio Access Network
3 11 (4.03%) BGP
3 11 (4.03%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (4.03%) VPN
4 6 (2.20%) SNMP
4 6 (2.20%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.47%) PBX
5 4 (1.47%) PSTN
5 4 (1.47%) VoIP
6 2 (0.73%) DHCP
6 2 (0.73%) DNS
6 2 (0.73%) Internet
6 2 (0.73%) LAN
6 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.73%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.37%) 4G
7 1 (0.37%) 5G
7 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.92%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 13 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.30%) KDB
6 6 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.83%) DB2
7 5 (1.83%) 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 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.73%) Power BI
9 2 (0.73%) Power Query
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (15.02%) JIRA
2 20 (7.33%) Git
3 19 (6.96%) Selenium
4 14 (5.13%) GitLab
4 14 (5.13%) Jenkins
5 11 (4.03%) Robot Framework
5 11 (4.03%) TestRail
6 10 (3.66%) Visual Studio
7 8 (2.93%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.56%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.83%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.83%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.83%) 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 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.32%) Finance
3 22 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.86%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.30%) Banking
6 8 (2.93%) Retail
7 6 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.83%) Automotive
8 5 (1.83%) Legal
8 5 (1.83%) 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 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Law
11 2 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 54 (19.78%) Developer
2 41 (15.02%) Analyst
3 35 (12.82%) Consultant
4 30 (10.99%) Senior
5 28 (10.26%) Lead
6 26 (9.52%) Test Manager
7 25 (9.16%) Test Analyst
8 23 (8.42%) SAP Consultant
9 19 (6.96%) Test Engineer
10 14 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.13%) Software Developer
10 14 (5.13%) Tester
11 13 (4.76%) Architect
11 13 (4.76%) SAP QM Consultant
12 11 (4.03%) Test Leader
13 10 (3.66%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.66%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.93%) Java Developer
14 8 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
15 7 (2.56%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.79%) .NET
2 20 (7.33%) JSON
2 20 (7.33%) RESTful
3 19 (6.96%) REST
3 19 (6.96%) SOAP
4 16 (5.86%) WebSockets
5 15 (5.49%) FastAPI
6 13 (4.76%) NETCONF
6 13 (4.76%) React
6 13 (4.76%) XML
7 11 (4.03%) CSS
7 11 (4.03%) HTML
7 11 (4.03%) Node.js
7 11 (4.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (4.03%) RESTCONF
8 10 (3.66%) YANG
9 9 (3.30%) Web Services
10 8 (2.93%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.20%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.20%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (4.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.56%) 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 (0.73%) Equities
6 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.73%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.73%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.13%) Windows
2 10 (3.66%) Linux
3 8 (2.93%) Unix
4 5 (1.83%) AIX
5 4 (1.47%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (36.26%) User Acceptance Testing
2 90 (32.97%) Agile
3 77 (28.21%) Test Automation
4 62 (22.71%) Unit Testing
5 50 (18.32%) System Integration Testing
6 49 (17.95%) End-to-End Testing
7 46 (16.85%) CI/CD
8 36 (13.19%) Analytics
8 36 (13.19%) DevOps
9 34 (12.45%) Test Strategy
10 32 (11.72%) Migration
10 32 (11.72%) Scrum
11 31 (11.36%) Performance Testing
11 31 (11.36%) Test Scripting
12 29 (10.62%) Regression Testing
13 28 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (10.26%) GAP Analysis
13 28 (10.26%) Software Testing
14 25 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (8.42%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.71%) SQL
2 53 (19.41%) Python
3 28 (10.26%) Java
4 24 (8.79%) JavaScript
5 23 (8.42%) C#
6 9 (3.30%) C++
7 8 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.56%) C
9 5 (1.83%) 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 (0.73%) Bash
12 2 (0.73%) PHP
12 2 (0.73%) SAPscript
13 1 (0.37%) VBA
13 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.69%) Degree
4 17 (6.23%) ISTQB
5 14 (5.13%) ISEB
6 8 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.20%) 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 (0.73%) CCNA
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.73%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.73%) 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 (10.26%) QA
2 10 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.83%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.83%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.83%) MISRA
4 5 (1.83%) 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 (0.73%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.73%) 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 (6.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.93%) Kubernetes
1 8 (2.93%) Terraform
2 4 (1.47%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.47%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.73%) Ansible
3 2 (0.73%) Nmap
3 2 (0.73%) 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 (24.18%) SAP
2 33 (12.09%) Oracle
3 23 (8.42%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.40%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.56%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.83%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.83%) 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