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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 500 417
Rank change year-on-year -30 -83 +46
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 281 170 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.38% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 146 95 138
10th Percentile £44,258 £40,000 £40,350
25th Percentile £52,813 £47,535 £47,546
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,000 £80,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -30 248 £68,500 +5.38% 544
UK excluding London -65 177 £62,500 +4.17% 374
Work from Home -12 82 £67,500 +1.89% 240
London -44 77 £85,000 +6.25% 224
North of England -16 58 £60,000 +29.73% 59
South East -58 46 £68,500 +8.47% 105
North West -12 28 £61,500 +29.47% 25
Midlands -30 28 £66,250 +12.77% 62
West Midlands -25 23 £70,000 +16.67% 36
North East - 23 £58,750 - 13
East of England -24 21 £50,883 -17.26% 31
South West -74 12 £50,000 -13.04% 48
Yorkshire -39 7 £72,500 +107.14% 21
Scotland +4 6 £63,750 +48.26% 40
Wales -71 6 £47,500 -6.31% 18
East Midlands -35 5 £57,500 +53.33% 26
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 12

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 (4.63%) Confluence
2 8 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.49%) Camunda
4 4 (1.42%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.07%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.07%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.49%) Simulink
2 6 (2.14%) Lightworks
3 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.42%) CATIA
5 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.36%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 45 (16.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.49%) SAP PSCD
3 6 (2.14%) SAP CO
3 6 (2.14%) SAP FI
3 6 (2.14%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (1.78%) SAP PP
4 5 (1.78%) Workday HCM
5 4 (1.42%) SAP GRC
6 3 (1.07%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.71%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.36%) Magento
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.36%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.36%) SAP ECC
8 1 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.36%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.36%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.27%) AWS
1 71 (25.27%) Azure
2 27 (9.61%) GCP
2 27 (9.61%) GitHub
2 27 (9.61%) Serverless
3 25 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (7.47%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (6.05%) Amazon S3
7 12 (4.27%) SaaS
8 9 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.14%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.78%) Boomi
11 5 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (1.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.98%) Ethernet
2 13 (4.63%) IPv4
3 10 (3.56%) Modbus
4 9 (3.20%) DMZ
4 9 (3.20%) OSPF
4 9 (3.20%) VLAN
4 9 (3.20%) VPN
5 6 (2.14%) MQTT
6 4 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.42%) Wireless
7 3 (1.07%) RFID
7 3 (1.07%) SAN
7 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.71%) HTTP
9 1 (0.36%) DNS
9 1 (0.36%) Profibus
9 1 (0.36%) Wideband
9 1 (0.36%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.47%) Relational Database
2 16 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.85%) MySQL
5 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.42%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.42%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.07%) Redis
7 2 (0.71%) DTS
7 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.71%) Power BI
7 2 (0.71%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.36%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (14.23%) JIRA
2 35 (12.46%) Git
3 34 (12.10%) Jenkins
4 29 (10.32%) GitLab
5 20 (7.12%) Postman
6 14 (4.98%) Cypress.io
6 14 (4.98%) JUnit
7 12 (4.27%) Selenium
8 11 (3.91%) REST Assured
9 9 (3.20%) JMeter
9 9 (3.20%) Mockito
9 9 (3.20%) Zephyr
10 8 (2.85%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.49%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (2.14%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.78%) Maven
14 4 (1.42%) Apache Continuum
14 4 (1.42%) Newman
14 4 (1.42%) PetaLinux
14 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
General
1 96 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.06%) Finance
3 50 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (14.95%) Manufacturing
5 34 (12.10%) Public Sector
6 31 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (9.61%) Aerospace
8 16 (5.69%) Automotive
9 14 (4.98%) Electronics
10 11 (3.91%) General Ledger
10 11 (3.91%) Retail
11 10 (3.56%) Law
12 8 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.14%) Marketing
14 5 (1.78%) Advertising
14 5 (1.78%) Aviation
14 5 (1.78%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.42%) Military
16 3 (1.07%) Publishing
17 2 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (18.86%) Senior
2 45 (16.01%) Lead
3 40 (14.23%) Developer
4 32 (11.39%) Software Engineer
5 22 (7.83%) Consultant
6 21 (7.47%) Analyst
7 19 (6.76%) Test Engineer
8 18 (6.41%) Architect
9 16 (5.69%) SAP Consultant
10 15 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (4.27%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (4.27%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.91%) Test Analyst
14 9 (3.20%) Control Systems Engineer
14 9 (3.20%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 9 (3.20%) Software Developer
15 8 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.10%) REST
2 30 (10.68%) RESTful
3 26 (9.25%) .NET
3 26 (9.25%) React
4 25 (8.90%) Spring
5 24 (8.54%) Kafka
6 22 (7.83%) Playwright
7 20 (7.12%) OAuth
8 19 (6.76%) Spring Boot
9 18 (6.41%) JWT
9 18 (6.41%) SAP Fiori
9 18 (6.41%) Terraform
10 15 (5.34%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.63%) JSON
11 13 (4.63%) Middleware
11 13 (4.63%) OAuth2
11 13 (4.63%) Web Services
12 12 (4.27%) Node.js
12 12 (4.27%) SOAP
12 12 (4.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.39%) Product Ownership
2 29 (10.32%) Cloud Native
3 23 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (7.12%) Management Information System
4 20 (7.12%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.34%) Embedded Systems
6 14 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.56%) IoT
7 10 (3.56%) SCADA
8 8 (2.85%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.49%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (2.14%) Blog
10 6 (2.14%) FPGA
10 6 (2.14%) Robotics
10 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.14%) Verilog
10 6 (2.14%) VHDL
11 5 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.19%) Linux
2 13 (4.63%) Windows
3 10 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.14%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.78%) Unix
6 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.36%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (41.99%) Agile
2 115 (40.93%) CI/CD
3 87 (30.96%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (30.60%) Test Automation
5 80 (28.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 77 (27.40%) User Acceptance Testing
7 72 (25.62%) DevOps
8 71 (25.27%) Software Engineering
9 60 (21.35%) Validation
10 58 (20.64%) AI
11 56 (19.93%) Migration
12 54 (19.22%) Mentoring
13 53 (18.86%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 44 (15.66%) Test Strategy
16 43 (15.30%) Microservices
16 43 (15.30%) System Integration Testing
17 36 (12.81%) Containerisation
17 36 (12.81%) Unit Testing
18 34 (12.10%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (18.86%) Python
2 52 (18.51%) Java
3 48 (17.08%) SQL
4 29 (10.32%) TypeScript
5 28 (9.96%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.83%) C
7 19 (6.76%) C++
8 16 (5.69%) C#
9 15 (5.34%) ABAP
10 9 (3.20%) Bash
10 9 (3.20%) MATLAB
11 8 (2.85%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.49%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.49%) Ruby
13 5 (1.78%) Rust
14 4 (1.42%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.07%) DataWeave
15 3 (1.07%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.07%) SOQL
15 3 (1.07%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 57 (20.28%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.15%) Degree
3 41 (14.59%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.90%) ISTQB
5 18 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (6.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (4.98%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.63%) Azure Certification
9 10 (3.56%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.85%) SAP Certification
11 6 (2.14%) CCAB
11 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 5 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (1.42%) CCA
13 4 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.42%) CISSP
13 4 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.42%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.66%) QA
2 25 (8.90%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.20%) NCSC
4 8 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.85%) WCAG
5 7 (2.49%) GDPR
6 5 (1.78%) GRC
6 5 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.78%) SLA
7 4 (1.42%) Def Stans
7 4 (1.42%) ECSS
7 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.07%) Automotive SPICE
8 3 (1.07%) PMO
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.36%) MISRA
9 1 (0.36%) MISRA C
System Software
1 39 (13.88%) Docker
2 9 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.78%) Firmware
5 4 (1.42%) IAG
5 4 (1.42%) Squid
5 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.42%) vSphere
6 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 30 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.85%) Ansible
3 4 (1.42%) Packer
3 4 (1.42%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.07%) Functional Safety
4 3 (1.07%) Kibana
4 3 (1.07%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.07%) Puppet
5 2 (0.71%) Grafana
5 2 (0.71%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.36%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (18.51%) SAP
2 29 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.12%) Oracle
4 11 (3.91%) Google
4 11 (3.91%) YouTube
5 9 (3.20%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.20%) Workday
6 8 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.85%) VMware
7 6 (2.14%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.14%) Splunk
8 5 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.78%) IBM
8 5 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.42%) Xilinx
10 3 (1.07%) Ariba
10 3 (1.07%) Citrix
10 3 (1.07%) Concur
10 3 (1.07%) EMC
10 3 (1.07%) webMethods