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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 456 581
Rank change year-on-year -91 +125 -114
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 178 209 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.51% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 109 115 270
10th Percentile £45,400 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -12.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,771 £73,438
90th Percentile £106,500 £85,000 £87,625
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 68,096 40,631 82,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.48% 93.01% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,564 22,679 59,766
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.95% +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 7 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 7 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 -100 156 £75,000 +20.00% 115
UK excluding London -77 84 £60,000 +9.09% 85
London -42 65 £75,000 +15.38% 43
Work from Home -11 56 £65,000 -3.70% 38
South East -21 38 £70,000 +21.74% 34
North of England -44 17 £75,000 +66.67% 14
Scotland -2 12 £45,500 - 4
South West -54 12 £53,500 -10.11% 14
North West -10 8 £75,000 +50.00% 7
Yorkshire -54 7 £95,000 +196.88% 4
West Midlands -35 3 £62,500 +16.28% 6
Midlands -43 3 £62,500 +35.14% 8
East of England -19 2 £75,000 +36.36% 12
North East -27 2 £60,000 +2.13% 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 17 (9.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (5.62%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.81%) CATIA
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (13.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.81%) SAP ERP
4 4 (2.25%) SAP CO
4 4 (2.25%) SAP FI
4 4 (2.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.69%) SAP PP
6 2 (1.12%) SAP FSCM
6 2 (1.12%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (1.12%) Shopify
6 2 (1.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.56%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.56%) Magento
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.56%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.56%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.09%) Azure
2 29 (16.29%) AWS
3 14 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.18%) SaaS
5 10 (5.62%) Serverless
6 8 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.49%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.93%) IaaS
8 6 (3.37%) GitHub
9 5 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.25%) PaaS
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.69%) Boomi
11 3 (1.69%) GCP
11 3 (1.69%) Lucidchart
11 3 (1.69%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.37%) ATM
1 6 (3.37%) Multicast
1 6 (3.37%) TCP/IP
1 6 (3.37%) tcpdump
1 6 (3.37%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.25%) IPv4
2 4 (2.25%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.69%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.69%) Modbus
3 3 (1.69%) MQTT
4 2 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.99%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.49%) DB2
4 4 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.25%) Power BI
4 4 (2.25%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.69%) MySQL
5 3 (1.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Redis
6 2 (1.12%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (16.85%) JIRA
2 22 (12.36%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.43%) Git
4 14 (7.87%) Bitbucket
4 14 (7.87%) Selenium
5 11 (6.18%) Cucumber
6 10 (5.62%) Postman
7 9 (5.06%) SpecFlow
8 8 (4.49%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (4.49%) TeamCity
9 7 (3.93%) GitLab
10 5 (2.81%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (2.81%) Maven
11 4 (2.25%) Cypress.io
11 4 (2.25%) JUnit
11 4 (2.25%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.69%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.12%) JMeter
13 2 (1.12%) LoadRunner
13 2 (1.12%) Mockito
General
1 61 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 49 (27.53%) Finance
3 35 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.55%) Manufacturing
5 15 (8.43%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.74%) Automotive
7 8 (4.49%) Banking
8 6 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.37%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.81%) Electronics
9 5 (2.81%) Retail
10 4 (2.25%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.25%) Law
10 4 (2.25%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.69%) Billing
11 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.12%) Back Office
12 2 (1.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (22.47%) Senior
2 27 (15.17%) Developer
2 27 (15.17%) Lead
3 22 (12.36%) Analyst
4 14 (7.87%) Consultant
4 14 (7.87%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (6.74%) Architect
5 12 (6.74%) Java Developer
6 10 (5.62%) SAP Consultant
7 9 (5.06%) Software Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) Test Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (4.49%) Test Analyst
9 7 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.37%) Lead Developer
10 6 (3.37%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.61%) RESTful
2 23 (12.92%) .NET
3 22 (12.36%) REST
4 19 (10.67%) React
5 12 (6.74%) Gherkin
5 12 (6.74%) Middleware
6 11 (6.18%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.62%) CSS
7 10 (5.62%) HTML
7 10 (5.62%) Kafka
7 10 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (5.06%) OAuth
9 8 (4.49%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (4.49%) Node.js
10 7 (3.93%) JWT
10 7 (3.93%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.93%) SOAP
10 7 (3.93%) XML
11 6 (3.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.55%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.18%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.81%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.69%) IoT
7 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.69%) SCADA
7 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.87%) Linux
2 6 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.25%) Android
3 4 (2.25%) Windows
3 4 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (44.94%) Agile
2 60 (33.71%) CI/CD
3 48 (26.97%) Test Automation
4 47 (26.40%) DevOps
5 41 (23.03%) Software Engineering
6 40 (22.47%) User Acceptance Testing
7 38 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (16.29%) Microservices
10 29 (16.29%) Validation
11 28 (15.73%) System Integration Testing
12 26 (14.61%) Migration
12 26 (14.61%) Unit Testing
13 25 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (14.04%) ERP
14 24 (13.48%) BDD
15 23 (12.92%) SDLC
16 22 (12.36%) Mentoring
16 22 (12.36%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.79%) SQL
2 30 (16.85%) Java
3 22 (12.36%) Python
4 21 (11.80%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.11%) C#
6 13 (7.30%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.81%) Bash
7 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.69%) ABAP
8 3 (1.69%) C
8 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.69%) PHP
9 2 (1.12%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.12%) C++
9 2 (1.12%) RPG
9 2 (1.12%) Rust
9 2 (1.12%) Swift
9 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.56%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (15.17%) Degree
2 21 (11.80%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.18%) ISTQB
5 10 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.81%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.81%) PMP
7 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.25%) CCNA
7 4 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.25%) OSCP
7 4 (2.25%) RHCE
7 4 (2.25%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.69%) CCA
8 3 (1.69%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.98%) QA
2 10 (5.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.69%) SLA
5 2 (1.12%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) ARP4754
6 1 (0.56%) ARP4761
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) DO-160
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (21.35%) Docker
2 13 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.37%) KVM
3 6 (3.37%) vSphere
4 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.25%) Firmware
4 4 (2.25%) Squid
4 4 (2.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.56%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.56%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 35 (19.66%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.30%) Ansible
3 9 (5.06%) Terraform
4 6 (3.37%) Puppet
5 4 (2.25%) Grafana
5 4 (2.25%) Packer
5 4 (2.25%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.12%) Kibana
7 2 (1.12%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (17.98%) SAP
2 23 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.30%) VMware
4 10 (5.62%) Oracle
5 7 (3.93%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.93%) IBM
6 4 (2.25%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.25%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.25%) Splunk
7 3 (1.69%) PayPal
7 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.12%) Ariba
8 2 (1.12%) Concur
8 2 (1.12%) Databricks
8 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.12%) Workday
8 2 (1.12%) YouTube
9 1 (0.56%) Adobe
9 1 (0.56%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.56%) Google