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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 416 494
Rank change year-on-year -27 +78 +5
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 136 279 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.55% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 192 271
10th Percentile £300 £363 £344
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 £627 £568
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +3.15%
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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
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 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 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 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 2 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 -15 114 £475 -6.31% 20
UK excluding London +11 61 £475 -5.00% 15
London +21 51 £475 -11.63% 2
Work from Home +29 44 £463 -7.04% 8
South East +4 23 £475 +11.76% 3
Midlands +30 14 £400 -30.43% 1
North of England -7 8 £488 -9.72% 3
East Midlands - 8 £380 -
West Midlands +12 6 £469 -18.48% 1
East of England +10 6 £500 -28.57% 5
Scotland +41 5 £513 +10.81% 2
South West +10 5 - - 1
North West -3 5 £488 -2.50% 2
Yorkshire +11 3 £550 +15.79%
Wales +17 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 (2.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (7.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (2.94%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.94%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.94%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.47%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.74%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.74%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.03%) Azure
2 8 (5.88%) AWS
2 8 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.15%) OCI
4 5 (3.68%) SaaS
5 4 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.21%) Oracle CX
7 2 (1.47%) PaaS
7 2 (1.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.74%) Boomi
8 1 (0.74%) GCP
8 1 (0.74%) Miro
8 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.15%) Power BI
2 6 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.68%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.94%) MS Access
4 4 (2.94%) Tableau
5 3 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.74%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (11.76%) JIRA
2 12 (8.82%) LoadRunner
3 11 (8.09%) Selenium
4 10 (7.35%) JMeter
5 7 (5.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.94%) Git
6 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.94%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.94%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.21%) FitNesse
7 3 (2.21%) JUnit
7 3 (2.21%) Postman
7 3 (2.21%) TestNG
7 3 (2.21%) TestRail
8 1 (0.74%) Log4Net
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) NUnit
8 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (25.00%) Finance
2 31 (22.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.29%) Banking
4 13 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.56%) Retail
5 8 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Law
7 5 (3.68%) Legal
8 4 (2.94%) Billing
8 4 (2.94%) Front Office
8 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.94%) Social Housing
9 3 (2.21%) Back Office
9 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.47%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Military
10 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (22.06%) Analyst
2 21 (15.44%) Lead
3 16 (11.76%) Test Manager
4 15 (11.03%) Test Analyst
4 15 (11.03%) Tester
5 14 (10.29%) Test Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Consultant
7 8 (5.88%) Developer
7 8 (5.88%) Senior
8 7 (5.15%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.15%) Test Leader
9 6 (4.41%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.68%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.68%) Cloud Specialist
10 5 (3.68%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
10 5 (3.68%) Oracle Specialist
10 5 (3.68%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Workstream Lead
11 4 (2.94%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.15%) XML
3 6 (4.41%) SOAP
4 5 (3.68%) CSS
4 5 (3.68%) HTML
5 4 (2.94%) .NET
5 4 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.94%) IDoc
5 4 (2.94%) JSON
5 4 (2.94%) Web Services
6 3 (2.21%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.21%) Ajax
6 3 (2.21%) React
6 3 (2.21%) REST
7 2 (1.47%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.47%) ADO
7 2 (1.47%) Dojo
7 2 (1.47%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.47%) Spring
7 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.68%) NHS
2 4 (2.94%) e-Health
3 3 (2.21%) CMDB
3 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.21%) PACS
3 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.21%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.47%) CCTV
4 2 (1.47%) Equities
4 2 (1.47%) FMCG
4 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.47%) Life Science
4 2 (1.47%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.74%) Derivative
5 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.74%) EPoS
5 1 (0.74%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.88%) Unix
2 4 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.74%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (72.79%) User Acceptance Testing
2 48 (35.29%) Integration Testing
3 38 (27.94%) Test Automation
4 33 (24.26%) Migration
5 30 (22.06%) Agile
6 29 (21.32%) Test Strategy
7 26 (19.12%) End-to-End Testing
7 26 (19.12%) Scenario Testing
8 21 (15.44%) Test Scripting
9 19 (13.97%) Data Migration
9 19 (13.97%) DevOps
10 17 (12.50%) Functional Testing
10 17 (12.50%) Validation
11 16 (11.76%) Defect Management
11 16 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.76%) Software Testing
11 16 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (10.29%) Waterfall
13 12 (8.82%) CI/CD
13 12 (8.82%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.71%) SQL
2 11 (8.09%) Python
3 9 (6.62%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.41%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.68%) Java
6 4 (2.94%) C#
7 1 (0.74%) ABAP
7 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Degree
2 11 (8.09%) ISTQB
3 9 (6.62%) ISEB
4 7 (5.15%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.76%) QA
2 13 (9.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.94%) EMIR
3 4 (2.94%) GxP
3 4 (2.94%) HL7
3 4 (2.94%) MiFID
4 3 (2.21%) GDPR
5 2 (1.47%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.47%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.74%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (19.12%) Oracle
2 22 (16.18%) SAP
3 8 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.94%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.94%) FIS
6 2 (1.47%) Cadence
6 2 (1.47%) Panasonic
7 1 (0.74%) Ariba
7 1 (0.74%) HP
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.74%) Workday