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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 448 584
Rank change year-on-year -83 +136 -121
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 173 208 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.53% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 109 113 265
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -9.77%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £87,000 £88,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.80%

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 66,694 39,010 81,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.98% 92.82% 85.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41,292 22,669 59,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -108 152 £72,500 +16.00% 90
UK excluding London -85 83 £60,000 +9.09% 80
Work from Home -10 60 £65,000 -3.70% 54
London -53 59 £75,000 +9.69% 28
South East -39 34 £70,000 +21.74% 29
North of England -53 19 £64,482 +43.29% 10
Scotland -9 12 £45,500 - 8
South West -43 12 £55,000 -7.59% 13
North West -18 10 £64,482 +28.96% 6
Yorkshire -57 7 £95,000 +196.88% 2
West Midlands -41 4 £62,500 +16.28% 6
Midlands -59 4 £62,500 +35.14% 8
East of England -37 2 £58,750 +6.82% 13
North East -44 2 £60,000 +2.13% 2

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 17 (9.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) SAS
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (6.36%) MS Visio
2 8 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.89%) CATIA
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (11.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.89%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.73%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.73%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.16%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (1.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.58%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.58%) Magento
6 1 (0.58%) Maximo
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.58%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.58%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.58%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.58%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.58%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (30.64%) Azure
2 28 (16.18%) AWS
3 16 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (5.78%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.20%) SaaS
5 9 (5.20%) Serverless
6 7 (4.05%) IaaS
7 6 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.89%) GitHub
9 4 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.73%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.73%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (1.73%) Boomi
10 3 (1.73%) GCP
10 3 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.73%) Lucidchart
10 3 (1.73%) PaaS
10 3 (1.73%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.47%) ATM
1 6 (3.47%) Multicast
1 6 (3.47%) TCP/IP
1 6 (3.47%) tcpdump
1 6 (3.47%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.73%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.73%) IPv4
2 3 (1.73%) Modbus
2 3 (1.73%) MQTT
2 3 (1.73%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.83%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.20%) DB2
4 4 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.31%) Power BI
4 4 (2.31%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.73%) MySQL
5 3 (1.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.16%) Redis
6 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.58%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 31 (17.92%) JIRA
2 21 (12.14%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.09%) Bitbucket
3 14 (8.09%) Git
3 14 (8.09%) Selenium
4 11 (6.36%) Cucumber
5 9 (5.20%) Postman
5 9 (5.20%) SpecFlow
5 9 (5.20%) TeamCity
6 8 (4.62%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (3.47%) GitLab
8 5 (2.89%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (2.89%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.31%) JUnit
9 4 (2.31%) Maven
10 3 (1.73%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.73%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.73%) webpack
11 2 (1.16%) Balsamiq
11 2 (1.16%) Mockito
General
1 61 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.01%) Finance
3 30 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.67%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.09%) Aerospace
6 11 (6.36%) Automotive
7 10 (5.78%) Banking
8 6 (3.47%) Spanish Language
8 6 (3.47%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.89%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.89%) Retail
10 4 (2.31%) Electronics
10 4 (2.31%) Law
11 3 (1.73%) Billing
11 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.73%) Military
12 2 (1.16%) Advertising
12 2 (1.16%) Back Office
12 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (23.12%) Senior
2 27 (15.61%) Developer
3 23 (13.29%) Analyst
3 23 (13.29%) Lead
4 14 (8.09%) Consultant
4 14 (8.09%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (6.94%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.36%) Test Engineer
7 10 (5.78%) Architect
8 9 (5.20%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (5.20%) Test Analyst
9 8 (4.62%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.62%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.05%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.47%) Applications Manager
11 6 (3.47%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.45%) RESTful
2 23 (13.29%) .NET
3 19 (10.98%) React
4 18 (10.40%) REST
5 13 (7.51%) Gherkin
6 12 (6.94%) CSS
6 12 (6.94%) HTML
7 11 (6.36%) Middleware
8 10 (5.78%) AngularJS
9 9 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (5.20%) Node.js
10 8 (4.62%) .NET Framework
10 8 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.05%) Kafka
11 7 (4.05%) OAuth
11 7 (4.05%) Playwright
12 6 (3.47%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.47%) SOAP
12 6 (3.47%) XML
13 5 (2.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.09%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.51%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.47%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.89%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.31%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.31%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.73%) IoT
8 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 3 (1.73%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.73%) SCADA
9 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.16%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.94%) Linux
2 6 (3.47%) Android
2 6 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.73%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.73%) Windows
3 3 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (45.66%) Agile
2 57 (32.95%) CI/CD
3 49 (28.32%) DevOps
4 47 (27.17%) Test Automation
5 41 (23.70%) Software Engineering
6 38 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (20.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 29 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (16.76%) Unit Testing
9 27 (15.61%) Microservices
9 27 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (15.61%) System Integration Testing
10 26 (15.03%) BDD
10 26 (15.03%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (15.03%) Validation
11 24 (13.87%) ERP
11 24 (13.87%) Mentoring
12 22 (12.72%) SDLC
13 20 (11.56%) Design Patterns
13 20 (11.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (20.81%) SQL
2 27 (15.61%) Java
3 23 (13.29%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.72%) Python
5 18 (10.40%) C#
6 12 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.89%) Bash
7 5 (2.89%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.73%) ABAP
8 3 (1.73%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.73%) PHP
8 3 (1.73%) RPG
9 2 (1.16%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.16%) C
9 2 (1.16%) C++
9 2 (1.16%) Go
9 2 (1.16%) Rust
9 2 (1.16%) Swift
9 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (13.87%) Degree
2 19 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.78%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.89%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.31%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.31%) PMP
9 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.73%) CCNA
9 3 (1.73%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.73%) OSCP
9 3 (1.73%) RHCE
9 3 (1.73%) RHCSA
10 2 (1.16%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.34%) QA
2 14 (8.09%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (1.73%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.16%) PMO
6 1 (0.58%) ARP4754
6 1 (0.58%) ARP4761
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.58%) DO-160
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (20.81%) Docker
2 12 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.47%) KVM
4 5 (2.89%) vSphere
5 4 (2.31%) Firmware
6 3 (1.73%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.73%) Squid
6 3 (1.73%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.58%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.58%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.58%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.94%) Ansible
3 8 (4.62%) Terraform
4 6 (3.47%) Puppet
5 4 (2.31%) Grafana
6 3 (1.73%) Packer
6 3 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.73%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.16%) Kibana
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.16%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (16.18%) SAP
2 20 (11.56%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.94%) VMware
4 9 (5.20%) IBM
4 9 (5.20%) Oracle
5 8 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.31%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.73%) PayPal
7 3 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.73%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.73%) Splunk
8 2 (1.16%) Ariba
8 2 (1.16%) Concur
8 2 (1.16%) Databricks
8 2 (1.16%) Samsung
8 2 (1.16%) Siebel
8 2 (1.16%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.58%) Aderant
9 1 (0.58%) Perfecto Mobile
9 1 (0.58%) Ping Identity