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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 507 506
Rank change year-on-year -62 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 226 176 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.40% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 128 105 192
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,361
25th Percentile £48,438 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £90,225 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%

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 76,763 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.58% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,880 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 5 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Top 16 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 5 August 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 -56 191 £67,500 +12.50% 197
UK excluding London -59 130 £60,000 +4.35% 139
Work from Home -10 71 £59,283 -12.17% 90
London -50 68 £85,000 +25.93% 74
South East -27 45 £68,000 +10.43% 41
North of England -22 33 £61,500 +36.67% 27
North West +11 19 £67,500 +31.71% 13
South West -58 14 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Scotland +19 12 £46,000 - 10
East of England -19 12 £66,250 -6.36% 12
North East -42 12 £57,500 +9.52% 5
Midlands -39 8 £62,500 +19.05% 27
West Midlands -38 7 £62,500 +19.05% 21
Wales -48 6 £47,500 -5.00% 8
Yorkshire -39 2 £60,000 +71.43% 10
East Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 6

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 (4.87%) Confluence
2 7 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.21%) Camunda
4 4 (1.77%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.33%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.88%) SAS
7 1 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (2.65%) CATIA
1 6 (2.65%) Simulink
2 5 (2.21%) Lightworks
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (14.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.10%) SAP PP
3 6 (2.65%) SAP CO
3 6 (2.65%) SAP FI
3 6 (2.65%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.33%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.88%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.88%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.88%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.88%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.44%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.44%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.44%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.44%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.44%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.44%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (28.32%) Azure
2 57 (25.22%) AWS
3 23 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.29%) Serverless
5 20 (8.85%) GitHub
6 18 (7.96%) GCP
7 16 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.19%) SaaS
9 13 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (4.87%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.21%) Boomi
12 5 (2.21%) IaaS
12 5 (2.21%) Vertex AI
13 4 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.10%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.21%) ATM
2 5 (2.21%) MQTT
2 5 (2.21%) Multicast
2 5 (2.21%) tcpdump
2 5 (2.21%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.77%) IPv4
3 4 (1.77%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.33%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.33%) SAN
4 3 (1.33%) Wireless
5 2 (0.88%) HTTP
6 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.52%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.75%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.54%) MySQL
5 4 (1.77%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.33%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.33%) Redis
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.88%) DTS
7 2 (0.88%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (14.16%) JIRA
2 31 (13.72%) Git
3 23 (10.18%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.41%) Postman
5 17 (7.52%) GitLab
6 12 (5.31%) JUnit
6 12 (5.31%) REST Assured
7 11 (4.87%) Selenium
8 10 (4.42%) Cypress.io
9 9 (3.98%) SpecFlow
10 7 (3.10%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.10%) Mockito
10 7 (3.10%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (2.65%) Apache Continuum
11 6 (2.65%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.77%) Maven
12 4 (1.77%) Zephyr
13 3 (1.33%) Gatling
13 3 (1.33%) Newman
13 3 (1.33%) TestRail
General
1 87 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 57 (25.22%) Finance
3 44 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.62%) Aerospace
4 24 (10.62%) Manufacturing
5 15 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.19%) Automotive
6 14 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.31%) Electronics
8 9 (3.98%) Law
9 7 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.21%) Advertising
10 5 (2.21%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.21%) Military
10 5 (2.21%) Spanish Language
11 4 (1.77%) Marketing
11 4 (1.77%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.33%) Billing
13 2 (0.88%) Retail
13 2 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (20.35%) Senior
2 44 (19.47%) Lead
3 39 (17.26%) Developer
4 28 (12.39%) Software Engineer
5 17 (7.52%) Analyst
6 16 (7.08%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (6.64%) Architect
7 15 (6.64%) Consultant
8 14 (6.19%) Test Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) SAP Consultant
10 12 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (4.87%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.98%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 8 (3.54%) Test Analyst
14 7 (3.10%) Business Analyst
14 7 (3.10%) Integration Architect
14 7 (3.10%) SAP PP Consultant
14 7 (3.10%) SAP QM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.72%) REST
2 25 (11.06%) .NET
2 25 (11.06%) React
3 22 (9.73%) RESTful
4 21 (9.29%) Kafka
5 20 (8.85%) OAuth
5 20 (8.85%) Spring
6 19 (8.41%) JWT
7 18 (7.96%) AngularJS
8 16 (7.08%) Playwright
9 15 (6.64%) Spring Boot
10 14 (6.19%) OAuth2
11 12 (5.31%) Middleware
12 10 (4.42%) Node.js
12 10 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.42%) SOAP
13 9 (3.98%) Hibernate
13 9 (3.98%) JSON
13 9 (3.98%) XML
14 8 (3.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.50%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.85%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.08%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (6.19%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.75%) Embedded Systems
7 10 (4.42%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.10%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.21%) Blog
9 5 (2.21%) FPGA
9 5 (2.21%) IoT
9 5 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.21%) Verilog
9 5 (2.21%) VHDL
9 5 (2.21%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.77%) CMDB
10 4 (1.77%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.50%) Linux
2 6 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.65%) Windows
3 5 (2.21%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.33%) Android
5 3 (1.33%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.81%) Agile
2 91 (40.27%) CI/CD
3 70 (30.97%) Test Automation
4 62 (27.43%) DevOps
5 61 (26.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (26.99%) Software Engineering
6 54 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (22.57%) User Acceptance Testing
8 45 (19.91%) Validation
9 42 (18.58%) Migration
10 41 (18.14%) Microservices
11 38 (16.81%) Test Strategy
12 35 (15.49%) Mentoring
13 32 (14.16%) AI
14 31 (13.72%) Containerisation
15 29 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (12.39%) System Integration Testing
16 28 (12.39%) Unit Testing
17 26 (11.50%) Event-Driven
17 26 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.24%) Python
2 44 (19.47%) Java
3 34 (15.04%) SQL
4 25 (11.06%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.73%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.96%) C
7 17 (7.52%) C#
8 16 (7.08%) C++
9 8 (3.54%) MATLAB
10 7 (3.10%) Ruby
11 6 (2.65%) Bash
12 5 (2.21%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.21%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.21%) Rust
13 3 (1.33%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.33%) DataWeave
13 3 (1.33%) Embedded C
13 3 (1.33%) Embedded C++
13 3 (1.33%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.88%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 43 (19.03%) Degree
2 38 (16.81%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.08%) ISTQB
6 8 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.65%) CCAB
7 6 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.65%) PMP
8 5 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.77%) CCA
9 4 (1.77%) CCNA
9 4 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.77%) OSCP
9 4 (1.77%) RHCE
9 4 (1.77%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.04%) QA
2 22 (9.73%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.10%) WCAG
4 6 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 6 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 4 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.77%) Def Stans
5 4 (1.77%) SLA
6 3 (1.33%) Automotive SPICE
6 3 (1.33%) ECSS
6 3 (1.33%) GDPR
7 2 (0.88%) NCSC
7 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) ARP4754
8 1 (0.44%) ARP4761
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) DO-160
8 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (19.03%) Docker
2 11 (4.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.65%) Firmware
4 5 (2.21%) KVM
4 5 (2.21%) vSphere
5 4 (1.77%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (1.77%) Squid
5 4 (1.77%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (14.16%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.19%) Terraform
3 12 (5.31%) Ansible
4 6 (2.65%) Puppet
5 4 (1.77%) Grafana
5 4 (1.77%) Kibana
5 4 (1.77%) Packer
5 4 (1.77%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.33%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.44%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (14.60%) SAP
2 24 (10.62%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.08%) Oracle
4 12 (5.31%) VMware
5 11 (4.87%) Google
6 9 (3.98%) MuleSoft
7 7 (3.10%) IBM
7 7 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.65%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.65%) Splunk
9 5 (2.21%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.21%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.33%) webMethods
10 3 (1.33%) Workday
10 3 (1.33%) Xilinx
11 2 (0.88%) Ariba
11 2 (0.88%) Concur
11 2 (0.88%) YouTube
12 1 (0.44%) EMC
12 1 (0.44%) Informatica