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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 513 426
Rank change year-on-year -46 -87 +35
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 252 157 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.36% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 133 94 153
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £61,873 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.12% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,000 £75,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £87,500 £89,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Top 17 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 15 September 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 -42 222 £70,000 +12.23% 524
UK excluding London -38 155 £65,000 +13.04% 338
London -35 72 £85,000 +25.93% 230
Work from Home -27 68 £67,500 +8.00% 227
North of England -18 53 £67,500 +68.75% 62
South East -37 45 £68,500 +8.47% 87
North West 0 27 £67,500 +42.11% 33
Midlands -38 20 £62,500 +4.17% 57
North East - 19 £57,500 - 9
West Midlands -30 16 £70,000 +12.00% 35
East of England -19 14 £55,765 -9.33% 37
South West -81 10 £50,000 -13.04% 48
Yorkshire -45 7 £72,500 +107.14% 22
Scotland +5 6 £63,750 +48.26% 35
Wales -70 6 £47,500 -6.31% 3
East Midlands -26 4 £57,500 +53.33% 21
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 13 (5.16%) Confluence
2 8 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.98%) Camunda
4 4 (1.59%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.19%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.79%) SAS
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Simulink
2 5 (1.98%) Lightworks
3 4 (1.59%) CATIA
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.40%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (15.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.38%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.38%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.38%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.98%) SAP PP
4 4 (1.59%) SAP PSCD
5 3 (1.19%) Elite 3E
5 3 (1.19%) SAP GRC
5 3 (1.19%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.79%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.40%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.40%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.40%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.40%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 71 (28.17%) AWS
1 71 (28.17%) Azure
2 27 (10.71%) GCP
2 27 (10.71%) GitHub
2 27 (10.71%) Serverless
3 24 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (5.95%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.16%) SaaS
8 9 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.38%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.98%) Boomi
11 5 (1.98%) Vertex AI
12 4 (1.59%) iPaaS
12 4 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.97%) Ethernet
1 10 (3.97%) IPv4
2 7 (2.78%) Modbus
3 6 (2.38%) DMZ
3 6 (2.38%) OSPF
3 6 (2.38%) VLAN
3 6 (2.38%) VPN
4 5 (1.98%) MQTT
5 4 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.19%) SAN
6 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.19%) Wireless
7 2 (0.79%) HTTP
8 1 (0.40%) DNS
8 1 (0.40%) Profibus
8 1 (0.40%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 16 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.17%) MySQL
5 4 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.59%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.59%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.19%) Redis
7 2 (0.79%) DTS
7 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.79%) Power BI
7 2 (0.79%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.40%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (13.89%) JIRA
2 34 (13.49%) Jenkins
3 33 (13.10%) Git
4 28 (11.11%) GitLab
5 24 (9.52%) Postman
6 14 (5.56%) Cypress.io
7 12 (4.76%) JUnit
7 12 (4.76%) REST Assured
7 12 (4.76%) Selenium
8 9 (3.57%) JMeter
9 8 (3.17%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.17%) Zephyr
10 7 (2.78%) Mockito
11 6 (2.38%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.98%) Maven
12 5 (1.98%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (1.98%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.59%) Apache Continuum
13 4 (1.59%) Newman
13 4 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 91 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.41%) Finance
3 48 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (13.10%) Manufacturing
5 28 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 26 (10.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (9.52%) Aerospace
8 14 (5.56%) Electronics
9 13 (5.16%) Automotive
10 10 (3.97%) Law
11 8 (3.17%) General Ledger
11 8 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.38%) Marketing
13 5 (1.98%) Advertising
14 4 (1.59%) Legal
14 4 (1.59%) Military
14 4 (1.59%) Retail
15 3 (1.19%) Aviation
15 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.79%) Billing
Job Titles
1 54 (21.43%) Senior
2 46 (18.25%) Lead
3 39 (15.48%) Developer
4 31 (12.30%) Software Engineer
5 21 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 20 (7.94%) Consultant
7 17 (6.75%) Architect
7 17 (6.75%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (5.56%) Analyst
8 14 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
9 12 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Embedded Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.78%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.49%) REST
2 30 (11.90%) RESTful
3 27 (10.71%) .NET
4 25 (9.92%) React
5 24 (9.52%) Kafka
6 23 (9.13%) Playwright
6 23 (9.13%) Spring
7 19 (7.54%) OAuth
8 18 (7.14%) JWT
9 17 (6.75%) Spring Boot
10 16 (6.35%) AngularJS
10 16 (6.35%) Terraform
11 14 (5.56%) XML
12 13 (5.16%) JSON
12 13 (5.16%) OAuth2
12 13 (5.16%) SAP Fiori
12 13 (5.16%) Web Services
13 12 (4.76%) Middleware
13 12 (4.76%) Node.js
13 12 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 27 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 17 (6.75%) Embedded Systems
6 16 (6.35%) Management Information System
7 15 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.78%) SCADA
9 6 (2.38%) Blog
9 6 (2.38%) IoT
10 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.98%) FPGA
10 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.98%) Verilog
10 5 (1.98%) VHDL
10 5 (1.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.13%) Linux
2 9 (3.57%) Windows
3 7 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.98%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (1.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) Android
5 2 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (43.25%) Agile
1 109 (43.25%) CI/CD
2 81 (32.14%) Test Automation
3 76 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (27.38%) DevOps
5 67 (26.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (26.19%) Software Engineering
7 58 (23.02%) User Acceptance Testing
8 52 (20.63%) Validation
9 50 (19.84%) Mentoring
10 49 (19.44%) Migration
11 48 (19.05%) AI
12 45 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
13 40 (15.87%) Microservices
14 39 (15.48%) Test Strategy
15 38 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (14.29%) Containerisation
17 33 (13.10%) System Integration Testing
18 32 (12.70%) Unit Testing
19 30 (11.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.24%) Python
2 49 (19.44%) Java
3 46 (18.25%) SQL
4 29 (11.51%) TypeScript
5 28 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.73%) C
7 18 (7.14%) C#
8 17 (6.75%) C++
9 11 (4.37%) ABAP
10 9 (3.57%) Bash
11 8 (3.17%) MATLAB
11 8 (3.17%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.78%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.78%) Ruby
13 5 (1.98%) Rust
14 4 (1.59%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.19%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.19%) Embedded C++
15 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.19%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 47 (18.65%) Degree
2 45 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 30 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 17 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.76%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.37%) Azure Certification
9 10 (3.97%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.38%) CCAB
10 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.98%) SAP Certification
12 4 (1.59%) CCA
12 4 (1.59%) CCNA
12 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.59%) RHCE
12 4 (1.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.08%) QA
2 24 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.78%) NCSC
3 7 (2.78%) WCAG
4 6 (2.38%) GDPR
5 4 (1.59%) Def Stans
5 4 (1.59%) GRC
5 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 4 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.59%) SLA
6 3 (1.19%) Automotive SPICE
6 3 (1.19%) ECSS
6 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.40%) MISRA
7 1 (0.40%) MISRA C
System Software
1 39 (15.48%) Docker
2 7 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.38%) Firmware
3 6 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.98%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (1.59%) Squid
5 4 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.59%) vSphere
6 3 (1.19%) IAG
7 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.40%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 28 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.17%) Ansible
3 4 (1.59%) Packer
3 4 (1.59%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.19%) Functional Safety
4 3 (1.19%) Kibana
4 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.19%) Puppet
5 2 (0.79%) Grafana
5 2 (0.79%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.40%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (16.67%) SAP
2 29 (11.51%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.14%) Oracle
4 11 (4.37%) Google
5 9 (3.57%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.17%) YouTube
7 7 (2.78%) VMware
8 6 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.38%) Splunk
8 6 (2.38%) Workday
9 5 (1.98%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.98%) IBM
9 5 (1.98%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.19%) EMC
10 3 (1.19%) webMethods
10 3 (1.19%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
11 2 (0.79%) Citrix
11 2 (0.79%) Pega