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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 481 572
Rank change year-on-year -51 +91 -107
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 181 183 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.45% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 114 112 266
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,603 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £61,792 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.88% +2.99% -13.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,907 £72,500
90th Percentile £104,375 £85,000 £88,125
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 66,963 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43,068 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 14 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 14 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 -60 160 £72,500 +17.33% 95
UK excluding London -71 90 £60,000 +9.09% 64
London -28 64 £75,000 +9.69% 36
Work from Home -11 59 £60,000 -11.11% 32
South East -10 41 £70,000 +21.74% 23
North of England -16 20 £60,000 +33.33% 15
Scotland +10 12 £45,500 - 1
South West -46 12 £50,000 -12.50% 10
North West +8 9 £62,500 +25.00% 9
Yorkshire -62 7 £95,000 +196.88% 3
North East -33 4 £58,750 - 3
West Midlands -34 3 £62,500 +31.58% 4
Midlands -50 3 £62,500 +38.89% 8
East of England -20 2 £75,000 +36.36% 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 16 (8.84%) Confluence
2 4 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) SAS
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (4.97%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.76%) CATIA
2 5 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (13.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.76%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.66%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.66%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.66%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.66%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.10%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (1.10%) SAP PSCD
5 2 (1.10%) Shopify
5 2 (1.10%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.55%) Magento
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.55%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.55%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 49 (27.07%) Azure
2 31 (17.13%) AWS
3 14 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.18%) Serverless
5 12 (6.63%) SaaS
6 9 (4.97%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.87%) GitHub
8 7 (3.87%) IaaS
9 5 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.21%) Boomi
10 4 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.21%) Lucidchart
10 4 (2.21%) PaaS
11 3 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) ATM
1 6 (3.31%) Multicast
1 6 (3.31%) TCP/IP
1 6 (3.31%) tcpdump
1 6 (3.31%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.21%) IPv4
2 4 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.66%) Modbus
3 3 (1.66%) MQTT
4 2 (1.10%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.31%) DB2
4 5 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.21%) Power BI
5 4 (2.21%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.66%) MySQL
6 3 (1.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.10%) Redis
7 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.10%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.55%) Big Data
8 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (16.02%) JIRA
2 22 (12.15%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.39%) Git
4 12 (6.63%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.63%) Selenium
5 11 (6.08%) Postman
6 9 (4.97%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.97%) SpecFlow
7 7 (3.87%) GitLab
7 7 (3.87%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (3.31%) JUnit
8 6 (3.31%) Maven
8 6 (3.31%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.76%) Apache Continuum
10 4 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.21%) JMeter
10 4 (2.21%) Mockito
10 4 (2.21%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.66%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.10%) Liquibase
General
1 61 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 48 (26.52%) Finance
3 36 (19.89%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.39%) Manufacturing
5 14 (7.73%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.63%) Automotive
7 8 (4.42%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.31%) Banking
8 6 (3.31%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.76%) Electronics
9 5 (2.76%) Retail
10 4 (2.21%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.21%) Law
10 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.21%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.66%) Billing
11 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.10%) Advertising
12 2 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (20.44%) Senior
2 30 (16.57%) Developer
3 28 (15.47%) Lead
4 24 (13.26%) Analyst
5 13 (7.18%) Java Developer
5 13 (7.18%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (6.63%) Architect
6 12 (6.63%) Consultant
7 11 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (6.08%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.97%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (4.97%) Test Analyst
9 8 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (4.42%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) QA Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (3.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.81%) .NET
1 25 (13.81%) REST
1 25 (13.81%) RESTful
2 20 (11.05%) React
3 14 (7.73%) AngularJS
4 13 (7.18%) Middleware
5 11 (6.08%) Kafka
6 10 (5.52%) Gherkin
6 10 (5.52%) HTML
6 10 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (4.97%) OAuth
7 9 (4.97%) Spring
8 8 (4.42%) .NET Framework
8 8 (4.42%) CSS
8 8 (4.42%) JWT
8 8 (4.42%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.87%) SOAP
9 7 (3.87%) XML
10 6 (3.31%) JSON
10 6 (3.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.94%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.08%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.97%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.76%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.21%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.21%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.66%) IoT
8 3 (1.66%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.66%) SCADA
9 2 (1.10%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.73%) Linux
2 6 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.21%) Android
3 4 (2.21%) Windows
3 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.65%) Agile
2 60 (33.15%) CI/CD
3 48 (26.52%) DevOps
4 47 (25.97%) Test Automation
5 42 (23.20%) User Acceptance Testing
6 41 (22.65%) Software Engineering
7 39 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (16.57%) Microservices
11 29 (16.02%) Validation
12 27 (14.92%) Migration
13 26 (14.36%) ERP
13 26 (14.36%) System Integration Testing
14 25 (13.81%) Mentoring
15 24 (13.26%) BDD
15 24 (13.26%) Containerisation
15 24 (13.26%) SDLC
15 24 (13.26%) Test Strategy
15 24 (13.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.34%) SQL
2 31 (17.13%) Java
3 23 (12.71%) JavaScript
3 23 (12.71%) Python
4 18 (9.94%) C#
5 17 (9.39%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.21%) Bash
6 4 (2.21%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.66%) C
7 3 (1.66%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.66%) PHP
7 3 (1.66%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.10%) ABAP
8 2 (1.10%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.10%) C++
8 2 (1.10%) RPG
8 2 (1.10%) Rust
8 2 (1.10%) Swift
8 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.36%) Degree
2 22 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.63%) ISTQB
5 11 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.76%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.76%) PMP
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.21%) CCNA
7 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.21%) OSCP
7 4 (2.21%) RHCE
7 4 (2.21%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.66%) CCA
9 2 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.23%) QA
2 10 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (1.66%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.66%) SLA
5 2 (1.10%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) ARP4754
6 1 (0.55%) ARP4761
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) DO-160
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (22.10%) Docker
2 13 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.31%) KVM
3 6 (3.31%) vSphere
4 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.21%) Firmware
4 4 (2.21%) Squid
4 4 (2.21%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.55%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.55%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.55%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.18%) Ansible
3 8 (4.42%) Terraform
4 6 (3.31%) Puppet
5 4 (2.21%) Grafana
5 4 (2.21%) Kibana
5 4 (2.21%) Packer
5 4 (2.21%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.10%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (17.13%) SAP
2 24 (13.26%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.18%) VMware
4 10 (5.52%) Oracle
5 7 (3.87%) IBM
6 6 (3.31%) Splunk
7 5 (2.76%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.21%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.66%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.66%) PayPal
10 2 (1.10%) Ariba
10 2 (1.10%) Concur
10 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.10%) Workday
10 2 (1.10%) YouTube
11 1 (0.55%) Adobe
11 1 (0.55%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.55%) Google