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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 505 404
Rank change year-on-year -18 -101 +61
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 288 165 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.33% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.38% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 151 88 132
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,225 £40,525
25th Percentile £50,750 £48,727 £47,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,825 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +0.52% -4.36%
75th Percentile £87,000 £80,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,550 £95,400
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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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 -26 255 £68,500 +3.40% 511
UK excluding London -45 184 £62,500 +4.17% 303
Work from Home -17 83 £67,500 - 191
London -26 78 £85,000 +6.25% 222
North of England -10 58 £61,500 +11.82% 46
South East -65 46 £68,500 +4.86% 85
Midlands -18 33 £66,250 +12.77% 53
West Midlands -26 28 £70,000 +16.67% 30
North West -1 27 £61,500 +11.82% 24
East of England -18 23 £46,000 -25.20% 25
North East - 23 £57,500 - 9
South West -72 12 £50,000 -12.50% 48
Yorkshire -26 8 £68,750 +30.95% 14
Scotland +11 6 £63,750 +48.26% 31
Wales -75 6 £47,500 -6.31% 7
East Midlands -32 5 £57,500 +53.33% 23
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9

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 11 (3.82%) Confluence
2 9 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.43%) Camunda
4 4 (1.39%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.39%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (1.04%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.78%) Simulink
2 6 (2.08%) Lightworks
2 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.74%) CATIA
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.35%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.35%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 42 (14.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.43%) SAP PSCD
3 6 (2.08%) SAP CO
3 6 (2.08%) SAP FI
3 6 (2.08%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (1.74%) SAP PP
4 5 (1.74%) Workday HCM
5 4 (1.39%) SAP GRC
6 3 (1.04%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.69%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.35%) Magento
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.35%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.35%) SAP ECC
8 1 (0.35%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.35%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.35%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.35%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (25.00%) Azure
2 69 (23.96%) AWS
3 28 (9.72%) GitHub
4 27 (9.38%) GCP
4 27 (9.38%) Serverless
5 26 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (5.90%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.51%) SaaS
10 9 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
13 5 (1.74%) Vertex AI
14 4 (1.39%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.56%) Ethernet
2 14 (4.86%) IPv4
3 12 (4.17%) Modbus
4 11 (3.82%) DMZ
4 11 (3.82%) OSPF
4 11 (3.82%) VLAN
4 11 (3.82%) VPN
5 6 (2.08%) MQTT
6 4 (1.39%) RFID
6 4 (1.39%) Wireless
7 3 (1.04%) SAN
7 3 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.69%) HTTP
9 1 (0.35%) DNS
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) Profibus
9 1 (0.35%) Wideband
9 1 (0.35%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.29%) Relational Database
2 17 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.13%) MySQL
5 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.39%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.04%) Redis
7 2 (0.69%) DTS
7 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.69%) Power BI
7 2 (0.69%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.69%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.35%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (14.24%) JIRA
2 36 (12.50%) Git
3 33 (11.46%) Jenkins
4 29 (10.07%) GitLab
5 20 (6.94%) Postman
6 14 (4.86%) Cypress.io
7 13 (4.51%) JUnit
8 12 (4.17%) Selenium
9 10 (3.47%) REST Assured
9 10 (3.47%) Zephyr
10 9 (3.13%) JMeter
10 9 (3.13%) Mockito
10 9 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
11 7 (2.43%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.39%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.39%) Maven
12 4 (1.39%) Newman
12 4 (1.39%) PetaLinux
13 3 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
General
1 100 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.57%) Finance
3 49 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (15.28%) Manufacturing
5 34 (11.81%) Public Sector
6 31 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (9.03%) Aerospace
8 17 (5.90%) Automotive
9 13 (4.51%) Electronics
9 13 (4.51%) Retail
10 11 (3.82%) General Ledger
10 11 (3.82%) Law
11 8 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.08%) Advertising
12 6 (2.08%) Aviation
12 6 (2.08%) Marketing
13 5 (1.74%) Military
13 5 (1.74%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.39%) Publishing
15 2 (0.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (18.40%) Senior
2 43 (14.93%) Developer
2 43 (14.93%) Lead
3 32 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 20 (6.94%) Consultant
5 19 (6.60%) Analyst
5 19 (6.60%) Test Engineer
6 17 (5.90%) Architect
7 16 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (5.21%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (4.86%) SAP Consultant
10 13 (4.51%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 13 (4.51%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (4.17%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.82%) Control Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.82%) Test Analyst
13 9 (3.13%) Software Developer
14 8 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.46%) REST
2 30 (10.42%) RESTful
3 28 (9.72%) .NET
4 26 (9.03%) React
5 25 (8.68%) Spring
6 23 (7.99%) Playwright
7 22 (7.64%) Kafka
8 19 (6.60%) OAuth
8 19 (6.60%) Spring Boot
9 17 (5.90%) JWT
9 17 (5.90%) SAP Fiori
9 17 (5.90%) Terraform
10 15 (5.21%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.51%) Web Services
12 12 (4.17%) JSON
12 12 (4.17%) Middleware
12 12 (4.17%) Node.js
12 12 (4.17%) OAuth2
13 11 (3.82%) SOAP
13 11 (3.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.72%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (7.29%) Management Information System
5 19 (6.60%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
7 14 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.17%) IoT
8 12 (4.17%) SCADA
9 9 (3.13%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.43%) Robotics
10 7 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.08%) Blog
11 6 (2.08%) FPGA
11 6 (2.08%) Mobile App
11 6 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (2.08%) Verilog
11 6 (2.08%) VHDL
12 5 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.99%) Linux
2 13 (4.51%) Windows
3 10 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.08%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.74%) Unix
6 3 (1.04%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.35%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.97%) Agile
2 113 (39.24%) CI/CD
3 89 (30.90%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (30.21%) Test Automation
5 78 (27.08%) User Acceptance Testing
6 77 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (24.65%) DevOps
8 70 (24.31%) Software Engineering
9 66 (22.92%) Validation
10 62 (21.53%) AI
11 56 (19.44%) Migration
12 55 (19.10%) Technical Leadership
13 53 (18.40%) Mentoring
14 47 (16.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 46 (15.97%) Test Strategy
16 42 (14.58%) Microservices
16 42 (14.58%) System Integration Testing
17 37 (12.85%) Unit Testing
18 36 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
19 34 (11.81%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.75%) Python
2 51 (17.71%) Java
3 50 (17.36%) SQL
4 29 (10.07%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.07%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.99%) C
6 20 (6.94%) C++
7 18 (6.25%) C#
8 15 (5.21%) ABAP
9 10 (3.47%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.78%) Bash
11 7 (2.43%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.43%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.43%) Ruby
12 5 (1.74%) Rust
13 4 (1.39%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.04%) Embedded C
14 3 (1.04%) Embedded C++
14 3 (1.04%) SOQL
14 3 (1.04%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 57 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.10%) Degree
3 42 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.99%) ISTQB
5 19 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.51%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.51%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.78%) SAP Certification
10 7 (2.43%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.08%) CCAB
12 5 (1.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 5 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.39%) CCA
13 4 (1.39%) CISA
13 4 (1.39%) CISSP
13 4 (1.39%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.04%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.67%) QA
2 25 (8.68%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.13%) NCSC
5 8 (2.78%) WCAG
6 7 (2.43%) GDPR
7 5 (1.74%) GRC
7 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 5 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.74%) SLA
8 4 (1.39%) Def Stans
8 4 (1.39%) ECSS
8 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.39%) PMO
9 3 (1.04%) Automotive SPICE
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.35%) MISRA
10 1 (0.35%) MISRA C
System Software
1 37 (12.85%) Docker
2 8 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (2.08%) Firmware
3 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.39%) IAG
5 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.04%) Squid
5 3 (1.04%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.04%) vSphere
6 1 (0.35%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 27 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.43%) Ansible
3 3 (1.04%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.04%) Packer
3 3 (1.04%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.04%) Puppet
3 3 (1.04%) ZABBIX
4 2 (0.69%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.69%) Kibana
5 1 (0.35%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.35%) Grafana
5 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (17.36%) SAP
2 28 (9.72%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.60%) Oracle
4 11 (3.82%) Google
4 11 (3.82%) YouTube
5 10 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.13%) Workday
7 8 (2.78%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.43%) VMware
9 6 (2.08%) IBM
9 6 (2.08%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.74%) Splunk
11 4 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.39%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.39%) Xilinx
12 3 (1.04%) Ariba
12 3 (1.04%) Citrix
12 3 (1.04%) Concur
12 3 (1.04%) EMC
12 3 (1.04%) webMethods