Integration Testing Job Trends

Integration Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 494 569
Rank change year-on-year -66 +75 -101
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 181 175 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.43% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 113 112 266
10th Percentile £45,500 £41,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,373 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.23% +3.95% -13.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £88,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Integration Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,959 41,142 82,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.29% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,928 22,326 59,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Integration Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Integration Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Integration Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Integration Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -67 159 £72,500 +16.24% 94
UK excluding London -56 90 £60,000 +9.09% 65
London -20 64 £75,000 +4.52% 31
Work from Home +12 58 £60,000 -11.11% 31
South East -11 42 £70,000 +21.74% 23
North of England -29 19 £57,500 +27.78% 13
Scotland +13 12 £45,500 - 2
South West -64 10 £53,500 -6.37% 8
North West +9 9 £62,500 +25.00% 7
North East -36 5 £57,500 -2.13% 2
Yorkshire -48 5 - - 4
East of England -19 4 £75,000 +36.36% 8
West Midlands -42 3 £62,500 +35.14% 8
Midlands -47 3 £62,500 +38.89% 10

Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (8.84%) Confluence
2 4 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) SAS
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (4.97%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.76%) CATIA
2 5 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (13.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.76%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.66%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.66%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.66%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (1.66%) SAP PP
4 2 (1.10%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.10%) SAP PSCD
4 2 (1.10%) Shopify
4 2 (1.10%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.55%) Magento
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.55%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.97%) Azure
2 31 (17.13%) AWS
3 14 (7.73%) Serverless
4 13 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.18%) SaaS
5 9 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.42%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.87%) GitHub
7 7 (3.87%) IaaS
8 5 (2.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.21%) Boomi
9 4 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.21%) Lucidchart
9 4 (2.21%) PaaS
10 3 (1.66%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.66%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (1.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) ATM
1 6 (3.31%) Multicast
1 6 (3.31%) TCP/IP
1 6 (3.31%) tcpdump
1 6 (3.31%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.21%) IPv4
2 4 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.66%) Modbus
3 3 (1.66%) MQTT
4 2 (1.10%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.39%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.31%) DB2
4 5 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.21%) Power BI
5 4 (2.21%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.66%) MySQL
7 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.10%) Redis
7 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.10%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.55%) Big Data
8 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (16.02%) JIRA
2 21 (11.60%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.84%) Git
4 12 (6.63%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.63%) Postman
5 11 (6.08%) Selenium
6 10 (5.52%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.97%) SpecFlow
8 7 (3.87%) GitLab
8 7 (3.87%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (3.31%) JUnit
9 6 (3.31%) Maven
9 6 (3.31%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.76%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (2.76%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.21%) JMeter
11 4 (2.21%) Mockito
12 3 (1.66%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.66%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.10%) Android Studio
General
1 61 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 48 (26.52%) Finance
3 34 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.39%) Manufacturing
5 14 (7.73%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.63%) Automotive
7 6 (3.31%) Banking
7 6 (3.31%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.31%) Spanish Language
8 5 (2.76%) Electronics
8 5 (2.76%) Retail
9 4 (2.21%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.21%) Law
9 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.66%) Billing
10 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.66%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.10%) Advertising
11 2 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (19.89%) Senior
2 32 (17.68%) Developer
3 29 (16.02%) Lead
4 22 (12.15%) Analyst
5 13 (7.18%) Java Developer
5 13 (7.18%) Software Engineer
5 13 (7.18%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (6.63%) Architect
7 11 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.52%) Consultant
9 9 (4.97%) Business Analyst
9 9 (4.97%) SAP Consultant
9 9 (4.97%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (4.42%) Test Analyst
11 7 (3.87%) QA Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (3.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.36%) .NET
2 25 (13.81%) REST
2 25 (13.81%) RESTful
3 22 (12.15%) React
4 16 (8.84%) AngularJS
5 13 (7.18%) Middleware
6 11 (6.08%) Kafka
7 10 (5.52%) Gherkin
7 10 (5.52%) HTML
7 10 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (4.97%) OAuth
8 9 (4.97%) Spring
9 8 (4.42%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.42%) CSS
9 8 (4.42%) JWT
9 8 (4.42%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.87%) Playwright
10 7 (3.87%) SOAP
10 7 (3.87%) XML
11 6 (3.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.94%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.52%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.97%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.76%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.21%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.21%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.66%) IoT
7 3 (1.66%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.66%) SCADA
8 2 (1.10%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.84%) Linux
2 6 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.76%) Android
4 4 (2.21%) Windows
4 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.09%) Agile
2 61 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 47 (25.97%) DevOps
3 47 (25.97%) Test Automation
4 42 (23.20%) Software Engineering
5 39 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (21.55%) User Acceptance Testing
6 32 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (16.02%) Microservices
8 29 (16.02%) Validation
9 26 (14.36%) ERP
9 26 (14.36%) Migration
10 25 (13.81%) BDD
10 25 (13.81%) Containerisation
10 25 (13.81%) Mentoring
11 24 (13.26%) System Integration Testing
11 24 (13.26%) Test Strategy
11 24 (13.26%) Unit Testing
12 23 (12.71%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.78%) SQL
2 31 (17.13%) Java
3 23 (12.71%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.15%) Python
5 19 (10.50%) C#
6 18 (9.94%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.21%) Bash
7 4 (2.21%) C
7 4 (2.21%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.66%) C++
8 3 (1.66%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.66%) PHP
8 3 (1.66%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.10%) ABAP
9 2 (1.10%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.10%) RPG
9 2 (1.10%) Rust
9 2 (1.10%) Swift
9 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.55%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 27 (14.92%) Degree
2 22 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.08%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.76%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.76%) PMP
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.21%) CCNA
7 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.21%) OSCP
7 4 (2.21%) RHCE
7 4 (2.21%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.66%) CCA
9 2 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.68%) QA
2 9 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (1.66%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.66%) SLA
5 2 (1.10%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) ARP4754
6 1 (0.55%) ARP4761
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) DO-160
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (22.65%) Docker
2 13 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.31%) KVM
3 6 (3.31%) vSphere
4 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.21%) Firmware
4 4 (2.21%) Squid
4 4 (2.21%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.55%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.55%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.55%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.18%) Ansible
3 8 (4.42%) Terraform
4 6 (3.31%) Puppet
5 4 (2.21%) Grafana
5 4 (2.21%) Kibana
5 4 (2.21%) Packer
5 4 (2.21%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.10%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (17.13%) SAP
2 24 (13.26%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.18%) VMware
4 8 (4.42%) Oracle
5 7 (3.87%) IBM
6 6 (3.31%) Splunk
7 5 (2.76%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.21%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.66%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.66%) PayPal
10 2 (1.10%) Ariba
10 2 (1.10%) Concur
10 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.10%) Workday
10 2 (1.10%) YouTube
11 1 (0.55%) Adobe
11 1 (0.55%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.55%) Salesforce