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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 504 550
Rank change year-on-year -51 +46 -48
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 199 175 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.41% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 115 107 238
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,705 £45,313
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 £92,400 £86,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,785 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +3.25% -

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 70,675 42,514 86,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.44% 91.57% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,811 23,148 61,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £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% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 30 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 30 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 -65 167 £67,500 +8.00% 103
UK excluding London -52 111 £60,000 +5.66% 96
Work from Home -18 62 £60,000 -11.11% 38
London -36 57 £75,000 +11.11% 23
South East -17 47 £75,000 +17.65% 34
North of England -50 24 £60,000 +29.73% 19
North West +6 15 £72,500 +31.82% 11
Scotland +23 12 £45,500 - 5
South West -64 10 £51,750 -10.00% 15
East of England -13 9 £71,250 -10.94% 5
North East -41 8 £57,500 +9.52% 3
Midlands -46 6 £62,500 +35.14% 17
West Midlands -31 5 £63,750 +34.21% 9
Wales -49 3 £47,500 -5.00% 1
East Midlands -29 1 £62,500 +78.57% 8
Yorkshire -39 1 - - 5

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 (6.53%) Confluence
2 4 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Camunda
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Simulink
2 5 (2.51%) CATIA
3 4 (2.01%) Lightworks
3 4 (2.01%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (15.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.52%) SAP PP
3 4 (2.01%) SAP CO
3 4 (2.01%) SAP FI
3 4 (2.01%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (1.01%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (1.01%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.01%) SAP PM
5 2 (1.01%) SAP PSCD
5 2 (1.01%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.50%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.50%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.50%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.50%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.13%) Azure
2 46 (23.12%) AWS
3 20 (10.05%) Serverless
4 17 (8.54%) GitHub
5 15 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.53%) SaaS
7 11 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.03%) GCP
9 8 (4.02%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.52%) IaaS
11 6 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.51%) Boomi
12 5 (2.51%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.01%) Lucidchart
13 4 (2.01%) PaaS
14 3 (1.51%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (1.51%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.02%) ATM
2 6 (3.02%) Multicast
2 6 (3.02%) tcpdump
2 6 (3.02%) Wireshark
3 5 (2.51%) MQTT
4 4 (2.01%) IPv4
4 4 (2.01%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.51%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.51%) Wireless
6 2 (1.01%) Network Security
6 2 (1.01%) SAN
7 1 (0.50%) HTTP
7 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.50%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.01%) MySQL
4 4 (2.01%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.51%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.01%) DTS
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.01%) Redis
6 2 (1.01%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.50%) Big Data
7 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (14.57%) JIRA
2 27 (13.57%) Git
3 23 (11.56%) Jenkins
4 18 (9.05%) Postman
5 14 (7.04%) GitLab
6 11 (5.53%) REST Assured
6 11 (5.53%) Selenium
7 9 (4.52%) JUnit
8 8 (4.02%) SpecFlow
9 7 (3.52%) Cypress.io
10 6 (3.02%) Bitbucket
10 6 (3.02%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (2.51%) Apache Continuum
11 5 (2.51%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.51%) Maven
12 4 (2.01%) JMeter
12 4 (2.01%) Mockito
13 3 (1.51%) Gatling
13 3 (1.51%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.51%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.62%) Finance
3 40 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.56%) Manufacturing
5 17 (8.54%) Aerospace
6 15 (7.54%) Automotive
7 11 (5.53%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.52%) Electronics
9 6 (3.02%) Advertising
9 6 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.02%) Spanish Language
10 4 (2.01%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.01%) Law
10 4 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.51%) Billing
11 3 (1.51%) Retail
11 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.01%) Back Office
12 2 (1.01%) Legal
12 2 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (19.60%) Senior
2 36 (18.09%) Lead
3 33 (16.58%) Developer
4 18 (9.05%) Analyst
4 18 (9.05%) Software Engineer
5 14 (7.04%) Consultant
5 14 (7.04%) SAP Consultant
6 12 (6.03%) Architect
6 12 (6.03%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (6.03%) Test Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Software Developer
8 9 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.02%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.02%) QA Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Test Analyst
10 7 (3.52%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) SAP PP Consultant
10 7 (3.52%) SAP QM Consultant
10 7 (3.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.07%) REST
2 24 (12.06%) .NET
3 22 (11.06%) React
4 18 (9.05%) RESTful
5 17 (8.54%) AngularJS
6 15 (7.54%) Middleware
7 14 (7.04%) Playwright
8 13 (6.53%) Kafka
8 13 (6.53%) Spring
9 12 (6.03%) Spring Boot
10 10 (5.03%) JWT
10 10 (5.03%) OAuth
11 9 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (4.52%) SOAP
12 8 (4.02%) JSON
12 8 (4.02%) Node.js
12 8 (4.02%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.02%) XML
13 7 (3.52%) HTML
14 6 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.56%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.54%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.54%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.03%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (5.03%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.02%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.51%) FPGA
8 5 (2.51%) Verilog
8 5 (2.51%) VHDL
8 5 (2.51%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.01%) IoT
10 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.06%) Linux
2 6 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.02%) Windows
3 4 (2.01%) Android
3 4 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.51%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.01%) Unix
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.70%) Agile
2 75 (37.69%) CI/CD
3 62 (31.16%) Test Automation
4 54 (27.14%) DevOps
5 53 (26.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (23.12%) Software Engineering
6 46 (23.12%) User Acceptance Testing
7 40 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (17.09%) Migration
8 34 (17.09%) Validation
9 33 (16.58%) Microservices
10 32 (16.08%) Test Strategy
11 29 (14.57%) Mentoring
12 28 (14.07%) System Integration Testing
13 27 (13.57%) Containerisation
14 26 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (11.56%) AI
15 23 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
15 23 (11.56%) ERP
16 22 (11.06%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.09%) Python
2 35 (17.59%) Java
3 28 (14.07%) SQL
4 21 (10.55%) JavaScript
4 21 (10.55%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.54%) C#
6 14 (7.04%) C
7 12 (6.03%) C++
8 6 (3.02%) MATLAB
9 5 (2.51%) Bash
9 5 (2.51%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.51%) Rust
10 3 (1.51%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.51%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.51%) Ruby
10 3 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.01%) ABAP
11 2 (1.01%) Assembly Language
11 2 (1.01%) PHP
11 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (16.08%) Degree
2 30 (15.08%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.54%) ISTQB
5 13 (6.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.51%) CCAB
7 5 (2.51%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.01%) CCA
8 4 (2.01%) CCNA
8 4 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.01%) OSCP
8 4 (2.01%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.01%) PMP
8 4 (2.01%) RHCE
8 4 (2.01%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.09%) QA
2 18 (9.05%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.02%) WCAG
4 5 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 5 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (1.51%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.51%) ECSS
5 3 (1.51%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.51%) SLA
6 2 (1.01%) GDPR
6 2 (1.01%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) ARP4754
7 1 (0.50%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.50%) DO-160
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.50%) MISRA
7 1 (0.50%) MISRA C
System Software
1 41 (20.60%) Docker
2 12 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.02%) KVM
4 5 (2.51%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.51%) Firmware
4 5 (2.51%) vSphere
5 4 (2.01%) Squid
5 4 (2.01%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (17.09%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.53%) Ansible
2 13 (6.53%) Terraform
3 7 (3.52%) Puppet
4 4 (2.01%) Grafana
4 4 (2.01%) Kibana
4 4 (2.01%) Packer
4 4 (2.01%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.51%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.01%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.50%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.50%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (16.08%) SAP
2 23 (11.56%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.04%) Oracle
4 13 (6.53%) VMware
5 6 (3.02%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.02%) Splunk
6 5 (2.51%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.51%) IBM
7 4 (2.01%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.51%) Google
8 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.51%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.01%) PayPal
9 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.01%) Workday
9 2 (1.01%) YouTube
10 1 (0.50%) Databricks
10 1 (0.50%) GoCardless
10 1 (0.50%) Perfecto Mobile