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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 486 552
Rank change year-on-year -72 +66 -67
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 195 176 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.42% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 112 107 243
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,379 £48,705 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,339 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +3.90% -15.49%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,225 £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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -75 166 £67,500 +8.00% 107
UK excluding London -41 110 £60,000 +9.09% 98
Work from Home 0 60 £60,000 -11.11% 44
London -29 56 £75,000 +4.52% 32
South East -16 47 £70,000 +9.80% 34
North of England -30 23 £61,500 +36.67% 17
North West +5 15 £72,500 +41.46% 10
Scotland +18 12 £45,500 - 4
South West -66 10 £51,750 -10.00% 16
East of England -14 9 £71,250 -10.94% 5
North East -36 7 £57,500 +9.52% 3
Midlands -34 6 £62,500 +35.14% 18
West Midlands -20 5 £63,750 +34.21% 10
Wales -46 3 £47,500 -5.00% 2
East Midlands -31 1 £62,500 +78.57% 8
Yorkshire -50 1 - - 4

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 12 (6.15%) Confluence
2 4 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.03%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) CATIA
2 5 (2.56%) Simulink
3 4 (2.05%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.54%) Lightworks
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (14.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.08%) SAP PP
3 4 (2.05%) SAP CO
3 4 (2.05%) SAP FI
3 4 (2.05%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (1.03%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (1.03%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.03%) SAP PM
5 2 (1.03%) SAP PSCD
5 2 (1.03%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.51%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.51%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.51%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.51%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.10%) Azure
2 44 (22.56%) AWS
3 19 (9.74%) Serverless
4 15 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.69%) GitHub
5 13 (6.67%) SaaS
6 11 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (4.62%) GCP
8 8 (4.10%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.59%) IaaS
10 6 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.56%) Boomi
11 5 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.56%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.05%) Lucidchart
12 4 (2.05%) PaaS
13 3 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.59%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.08%) ATM
2 6 (3.08%) Multicast
2 6 (3.08%) tcpdump
2 6 (3.08%) Wireshark
3 4 (2.05%) IPv4
3 4 (2.05%) MQTT
3 4 (2.05%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (1.03%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.03%) Network Security
4 2 (1.03%) SAN
4 2 (1.03%) Wireless
5 1 (0.51%) HTTP
5 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.51%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.62%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.05%) MySQL
4 4 (2.05%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.54%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.03%) Redis
6 2 (1.03%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.51%) Big Data
7 1 (0.51%) DTS
7 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.51%) Power BI
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (14.87%) JIRA
2 26 (13.33%) Git
3 21 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 18 (9.23%) Postman
5 13 (6.67%) GitLab
6 11 (5.64%) Selenium
7 10 (5.13%) REST Assured
8 8 (4.10%) JUnit
8 8 (4.10%) SpecFlow
9 7 (3.59%) Cypress.io
9 7 (3.59%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (3.08%) Apache Continuum
10 6 (3.08%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.56%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.56%) Maven
12 4 (2.05%) JMeter
13 3 (1.54%) Mockito
13 3 (1.54%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.54%) Zephyr
14 2 (1.03%) Gatling
General
1 65 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.10%) Finance
3 40 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.28%) Manufacturing
5 17 (8.72%) Aerospace
6 15 (7.69%) Automotive
7 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.62%) Electronics
9 6 (3.08%) Advertising
9 6 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.08%) Spanish Language
10 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.05%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.05%) Law
11 4 (2.05%) Retail
12 3 (1.54%) Billing
12 3 (1.54%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.03%) Legal
13 2 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (20.00%) Senior
2 34 (17.44%) Lead
3 30 (15.38%) Developer
4 19 (9.74%) Analyst
5 17 (8.72%) Software Engineer
6 13 (6.67%) Consultant
6 13 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
6 13 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (6.15%) Architect
7 12 (6.15%) Test Engineer
8 9 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.10%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.10%) QA Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.10%) Test Analyst
10 7 (3.59%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.82%) .NET
2 24 (12.31%) REST
3 21 (10.77%) React
4 18 (9.23%) RESTful
5 16 (8.21%) AngularJS
6 15 (7.69%) Middleware
7 13 (6.67%) Kafka
7 13 (6.67%) Playwright
8 12 (6.15%) Spring
9 11 (5.64%) Spring Boot
10 10 (5.13%) OAuth
11 9 (4.62%) JWT
11 9 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (4.62%) SOAP
12 8 (4.10%) JSON
12 8 (4.10%) XML
13 7 (3.59%) HTML
13 7 (3.59%) OAuth2
14 6 (3.08%) .NET Framework
14 6 (3.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.79%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.21%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (6.15%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.62%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (3.59%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.56%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.05%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.05%) FPGA
10 4 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.05%) Verilog
10 4 (2.05%) VHDL
11 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.54%) IoT
11 3 (1.54%) Life Science
11 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.77%) Linux
2 6 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.08%) Windows
3 4 (2.05%) Android
3 4 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.03%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.03%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.51%) Agile
2 69 (35.38%) CI/CD
3 58 (29.74%) Test Automation
4 53 (27.18%) DevOps
5 51 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (23.59%) User Acceptance Testing
7 45 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (17.95%) Validation
10 33 (16.92%) Migration
11 31 (15.90%) Microservices
12 30 (15.38%) Test Strategy
13 28 (14.36%) Mentoring
13 28 (14.36%) System Integration Testing
14 26 (13.33%) Containerisation
14 26 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (11.79%) BDD
16 22 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (11.28%) ERP
16 22 (11.28%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.44%) Java
2 32 (16.41%) Python
3 26 (13.33%) SQL
4 20 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.72%) C#
7 13 (6.67%) C
8 11 (5.64%) C++
9 5 (2.56%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.05%) Bash
10 4 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.05%) Rust
11 3 (1.54%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.54%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.54%) Ruby
11 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.03%) ABAP
12 2 (1.03%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.03%) PHP
12 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (16.92%) Degree
2 30 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.69%) ISTQB
5 14 (7.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.05%) CCA
8 4 (2.05%) CCAB
8 4 (2.05%) CCNA
8 4 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.05%) OSCP
8 4 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.05%) PMP
8 4 (2.05%) RHCE
8 4 (2.05%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.95%) QA
2 17 (8.72%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 6 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 5 (2.56%) WCAG
5 3 (1.54%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.54%) SLA
6 2 (1.03%) ECSS
6 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 2 (1.03%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) ARP4754
7 1 (0.51%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.51%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.51%) DO-160
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.51%) MISRA C
System Software
1 39 (20.00%) Docker
2 12 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.08%) KVM
4 5 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.56%) Firmware
4 5 (2.56%) vSphere
5 4 (2.05%) Squid
5 4 (2.05%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.51%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.51%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.15%) Ansible
2 12 (6.15%) Terraform
3 6 (3.08%) Puppet
4 4 (2.05%) Grafana
4 4 (2.05%) Kibana
4 4 (2.05%) Packer
4 4 (2.05%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.54%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.51%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.51%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (15.90%) SAP
2 23 (11.79%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.67%) Oracle
3 13 (6.67%) VMware
4 6 (3.08%) IBM
4 6 (3.08%) MuleSoft
4 6 (3.08%) Splunk
5 4 (2.05%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.05%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.03%) Google
7 2 (1.03%) PayPal
7 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.03%) Workday
7 2 (1.03%) Xilinx
7 2 (1.03%) YouTube
8 1 (0.51%) Conga
8 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.51%) Infor
8 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds