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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 484 558
Rank change year-on-year -69 +74 -102
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 178 167 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 109 101 266
10th Percentile £45,400 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £62,245 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +3.74% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £87,500 £87,500
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 68,421 39,984 83,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.77% 93.29% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44,440 20,998 60,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 25 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 25 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 -65 156 £70,000 +12.23% 90
UK excluding London -58 89 £60,000 +9.09% 67
London -24 63 £75,000 - 32
Work from Home +9 54 £60,000 -11.11% 26
South East -11 42 £70,000 +19.15% 22
North of England -28 18 £58,750 +30.56% 19
Scotland +10 12 £45,500 - 4
South West -60 9 £51,750 -9.44% 8
North West +4 8 £75,000 +50.00% 8
East of England -15 5 £75,000 +36.36% 5
North East -37 5 £57,500 +9.52% 3
Yorkshire -50 5 - - 8
West Midlands -39 3 £62,500 +35.14% 4
Midlands -51 3 £62,500 +38.89% 8

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 15 (8.43%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.93%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.81%) CATIA
3 4 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (13.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.81%) SAP ERP
3 4 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.69%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.69%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.69%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.69%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.12%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (1.12%) SAP PSCD
5 2 (1.12%) Shopify
5 2 (1.12%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.56%) Magento
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.56%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.56%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.84%) Azure
2 31 (17.42%) AWS
3 14 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (7.87%) Serverless
4 13 (7.30%) SaaS
5 9 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.49%) GitHub
7 7 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.93%) IaaS
7 7 (3.93%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.81%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.25%) Boomi
9 4 (2.25%) Lucidchart
9 4 (2.25%) PaaS
10 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.69%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.69%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.37%) ATM
1 6 (3.37%) Multicast
1 6 (3.37%) TCP/IP
1 6 (3.37%) tcpdump
1 6 (3.37%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.25%) IPv4
2 4 (2.25%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.69%) Modbus
3 3 (1.69%) MQTT
4 2 (1.12%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.81%) DB2
4 4 (2.25%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.69%) MySQL
5 3 (1.69%) Power BI
5 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Redis
6 2 (1.12%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (16.29%) JIRA
2 21 (11.80%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.55%) Git
4 13 (7.30%) Postman
5 11 (6.18%) Bitbucket
5 11 (6.18%) Selenium
6 9 (5.06%) Cucumber
6 9 (5.06%) SpecFlow
7 8 (4.49%) GitLab
8 7 (3.93%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (3.37%) JUnit
9 6 (3.37%) Maven
9 6 (3.37%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.81%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (2.81%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.25%) Cypress.io
11 4 (2.25%) JMeter
11 4 (2.25%) Mockito
12 3 (1.69%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.12%) Liquibase
General
1 60 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.72%) Finance
3 34 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.55%) Manufacturing
5 15 (8.43%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.74%) Automotive
7 7 (3.93%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.37%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.81%) Banking
9 5 (2.81%) Electronics
9 5 (2.81%) Retail
10 4 (2.25%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.25%) Law
10 4 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.69%) Billing
11 3 (1.69%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.12%) Back Office
12 2 (1.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (18.54%) Senior
2 29 (16.29%) Developer
2 29 (16.29%) Lead
3 21 (11.80%) Analyst
4 13 (7.30%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (6.74%) Architect
5 12 (6.74%) Java Developer
5 12 (6.74%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (5.62%) Consultant
8 9 (5.06%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (5.06%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (4.49%) Test Analyst
10 7 (3.93%) QA Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.48%) .NET
2 22 (12.36%) REST
2 22 (12.36%) RESTful
3 21 (11.80%) React
4 16 (8.99%) AngularJS
5 13 (7.30%) Middleware
6 11 (6.18%) Kafka
7 10 (5.62%) HTML
8 9 (5.06%) Gherkin
8 9 (5.06%) OAuth
8 9 (5.06%) Spring
9 8 (4.49%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.49%) CSS
9 8 (4.49%) JWT
9 8 (4.49%) Playwright
9 8 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.49%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.93%) SOAP
10 7 (3.93%) XML
11 6 (3.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.06%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.81%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.69%) IoT
7 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (1.69%) SCADA
8 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.99%) Linux
2 6 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.25%) Android
3 4 (2.25%) Windows
3 4 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.82%) Agile
2 60 (33.71%) CI/CD
3 48 (26.97%) DevOps
4 47 (26.40%) Test Automation
5 40 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (22.47%) Software Engineering
6 39 (21.91%) User Acceptance Testing
7 32 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (16.85%) Validation
10 27 (15.17%) Microservices
11 26 (14.61%) ERP
11 26 (14.61%) Mentoring
11 26 (14.61%) Migration
12 25 (14.04%) BDD
12 25 (14.04%) Containerisation
12 25 (14.04%) Test Strategy
13 24 (13.48%) System Integration Testing
14 23 (12.92%) Unit Testing
15 22 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.10%) SQL
2 31 (17.42%) Java
3 23 (12.92%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.36%) Python
5 17 (9.55%) C#
5 17 (9.55%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.25%) Bash
6 4 (2.25%) C
6 4 (2.25%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.69%) C++
7 3 (1.69%) PHP
7 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.12%) ABAP
8 2 (1.12%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.12%) RPG
8 2 (1.12%) Rust
8 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (14.61%) Degree
2 24 (13.48%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.18%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.81%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.81%) PMP
7 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.25%) CCNA
7 4 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.25%) OSCP
7 4 (2.25%) RHCE
7 4 (2.25%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.69%) CCA
9 2 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.42%) QA
2 10 (5.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.69%) SLA
5 2 (1.12%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) ARP4754
6 1 (0.56%) ARP4761
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) DO-160
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (22.47%) Docker
2 13 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.37%) KVM
3 6 (3.37%) vSphere
4 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.25%) Firmware
4 4 (2.25%) Squid
4 4 (2.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.56%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.56%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 35 (19.66%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.30%) Ansible
3 8 (4.49%) Terraform
4 6 (3.37%) Puppet
5 4 (2.25%) Grafana
5 4 (2.25%) Kibana
5 4 (2.25%) Packer
5 4 (2.25%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.12%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (17.42%) SAP
2 24 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.87%) VMware
4 8 (4.49%) Oracle
5 7 (3.93%) IBM
6 6 (3.37%) Splunk
7 4 (2.25%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.25%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.69%) PayPal
9 2 (1.12%) Ariba
9 2 (1.12%) Concur
9 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.12%) Workday
9 2 (1.12%) YouTube
10 1 (0.56%) Adobe
10 1 (0.56%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.56%) Salesforce