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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 493 540
Rank change year-on-year -55 +47 -45
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 214 183 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.41% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 125 109 238
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,890 £48,659 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £62,339 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +3.90% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,450 £85,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,143 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +3.90% -

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 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -50 180 £67,500 +8.00% 132
UK excluding London -53 119 £60,000 +5.00% 113
Work from Home -9 71 £60,000 -11.11% 56
London -27 62 £76,500 +13.33% 41
South East -33 44 £70,000 +9.80% 42
North of England -28 27 £60,000 +29.73% 18
North West +4 16 £72,500 +31.82% 10
South West -57 15 £50,000 -13.04% 15
Scotland +16 12 £45,500 - 10
North East -35 10 £57,500 +9.52% 5
East of England -12 9 £71,250 -10.94% 5
Midlands -37 8 £62,500 +31.58% 17
West Midlands -30 7 £62,500 +16.28% 8
Wales -48 4 £47,500 -5.00% 2
East Midlands -29 1 £62,500 +78.57% 9
Yorkshire -42 1 - - 3

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 13 (6.07%) Confluence
2 7 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.40%) Camunda
4 2 (0.93%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.93%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Simulink
2 5 (2.34%) Lightworks
3 4 (1.87%) CATIA
3 4 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (14.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.27%) SAP PP
3 4 (1.87%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.87%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.87%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.40%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.93%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.93%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.93%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.93%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.93%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.47%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.47%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.47%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.47%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.47%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (26.64%) Azure
2 49 (22.90%) AWS
3 21 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (9.81%) Serverless
4 19 (8.88%) GitHub
5 16 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (6.54%) SaaS
7 12 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.14%) GCP
9 9 (4.21%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.27%) IaaS
11 6 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.80%) Boomi
11 6 (2.80%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.87%) Lucidchart
13 4 (1.87%) PaaS
14 3 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.74%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.80%) ATM
2 6 (2.80%) MQTT
2 6 (2.80%) Multicast
2 6 (2.80%) tcpdump
2 6 (2.80%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.87%) IPv4
3 4 (1.87%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.40%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.40%) Wireless
5 2 (0.93%) HTTP
5 2 (0.93%) Network Security
5 2 (0.93%) SAN
6 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.47%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.21%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.87%) MySQL
3 4 (1.87%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.40%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.93%) DTS
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.93%) Redis
5 2 (0.93%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.47%) Big Data
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (14.02%) JIRA
2 29 (13.55%) Git
3 24 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 20 (9.35%) Postman
5 15 (7.01%) GitLab
6 13 (6.07%) Selenium
7 12 (5.61%) JUnit
7 12 (5.61%) REST Assured
8 9 (4.21%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.74%) SpecFlow
10 6 (2.80%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.80%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.80%) Mockito
10 6 (2.80%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (2.34%) Maven
12 4 (1.87%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (1.87%) JMeter
12 4 (1.87%) Zephyr
13 3 (1.40%) Gatling
13 3 (1.40%) TestRail
General
1 75 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.83%) Finance
3 41 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.75%) Manufacturing
5 19 (8.88%) Aerospace
6 16 (7.48%) Automotive
7 13 (6.07%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.14%) Electronics
9 7 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.80%) Advertising
10 6 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.80%) Spanish Language
11 5 (2.34%) Law
11 5 (2.34%) Military
12 4 (1.87%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.40%) Billing
13 3 (1.40%) Retail
13 3 (1.40%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.93%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 40 (18.69%) Lead
2 36 (16.82%) Senior
3 35 (16.36%) Developer
4 21 (9.81%) Software Engineer
5 19 (8.88%) Analyst
6 15 (7.01%) Consultant
7 14 (6.54%) Architect
7 14 (6.54%) SAP Consultant
8 13 (6.07%) Test Engineer
9 12 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (4.67%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.21%) Test Analyst
12 8 (3.74%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.74%) QA Engineer
12 8 (3.74%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.27%) Business Analyst
13 7 (3.27%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) SAP PP Consultant
13 7 (3.27%) SAP QM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.55%) REST
2 24 (11.21%) .NET
3 22 (10.28%) React
4 20 (9.35%) RESTful
5 17 (7.94%) AngularJS
6 16 (7.48%) Playwright
6 16 (7.48%) Spring
7 15 (7.01%) Middleware
7 15 (7.01%) Spring Boot
8 14 (6.54%) Kafka
9 13 (6.07%) JWT
9 13 (6.07%) OAuth
10 10 (4.67%) JSON
10 10 (4.67%) OAuth2
10 10 (4.67%) SOAP
11 9 (4.21%) Node.js
11 9 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (4.21%) XML
12 7 (3.27%) HTML
12 7 (3.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 19 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.48%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (6.07%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.61%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.80%) IoT
7 6 (2.80%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.34%) FPGA
8 5 (2.34%) Verilog
8 5 (2.34%) VHDL
8 5 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.87%) CMDB
9 4 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.21%) Linux
2 7 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.80%) Windows
4 5 (2.34%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (1.87%) Android
5 4 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.93%) Unix
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (41.59%) Agile
2 81 (37.85%) CI/CD
3 66 (30.84%) Test Automation
4 58 (27.10%) DevOps
5 57 (26.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (24.30%) User Acceptance Testing
7 49 (22.90%) Software Engineering
8 47 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (18.22%) Validation
10 38 (17.76%) Migration
11 37 (17.29%) Microservices
12 33 (15.42%) Test Strategy
13 32 (14.95%) Mentoring
14 29 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (13.55%) System Integration Testing
15 28 (13.08%) Containerisation
16 27 (12.62%) AI
17 26 (12.15%) ERP
18 25 (11.68%) Data Migration
19 24 (11.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.63%) Python
2 38 (17.76%) Java
3 31 (14.49%) SQL
4 21 (9.81%) JavaScript
4 21 (9.81%) TypeScript
5 17 (7.94%) C
5 17 (7.94%) C#
6 15 (7.01%) C++
7 6 (2.80%) Bash
7 6 (2.80%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.34%) Ruby
8 5 (2.34%) Rust
9 3 (1.40%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.40%) Embedded C++
9 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.93%) ABAP
10 2 (0.93%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (18.69%) Degree
2 36 (16.82%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.94%) ISTQB
5 15 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (5.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.80%) CCAB
7 6 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.80%) PMP
8 4 (1.87%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.87%) CCA
8 4 (1.87%) CCNA
8 4 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.87%) OSCP
8 4 (1.87%) RHCE
8 4 (1.87%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.82%) QA
2 23 (10.75%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.27%) WCAG
4 4 (1.87%) Def Stans
4 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (1.87%) SLA
5 3 (1.40%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.40%) ECSS
5 3 (1.40%) GDPR
5 3 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.93%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) ARP4754
7 1 (0.47%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) DO-160
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.47%) MISRA
7 1 (0.47%) MISRA C
System Software
1 42 (19.63%) Docker
2 12 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.27%) Firmware
4 6 (2.80%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.80%) KVM
5 5 (2.34%) vSphere
6 4 (1.87%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (1.87%) Squid
6 4 (1.87%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (15.89%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.54%) Terraform
3 13 (6.07%) Ansible
4 7 (3.27%) Puppet
5 4 (1.87%) Grafana
5 4 (1.87%) Kibana
5 4 (1.87%) Packer
5 4 (1.87%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.40%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.93%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.47%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (16.36%) SAP
2 25 (11.68%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.48%) Oracle
4 13 (6.07%) VMware
5 8 (3.74%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.80%) Splunk
7 5 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.34%) Google
7 5 (2.34%) IBM
7 5 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.87%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.40%) Workday
9 3 (1.40%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.93%) Ariba
10 2 (0.93%) Concur
10 2 (0.93%) PayPal
10 2 (0.93%) YouTube
11 1 (0.47%) Informatica