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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 514 434
Rank change year-on-year -43 -80 +29
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 246 157 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.36% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 135 95 158
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,875 £75,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -

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 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Integration Testing in the UK

Integration Testing
Top 17 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 September 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 -50 216 £69,250 +12.60% 352
UK excluding London -57 149 £62,500 +8.70% 225
London -46 73 £85,000 +25.93% 163
Work from Home -29 68 £63,000 +0.80% 211
South East -28 44 £68,500 +8.47% 60
North of England -31 44 £67,500 +68.75% 36
North West +3 24 £67,500 +42.11% 20
Midlands -37 21 £62,500 +4.17% 51
North East - 18 £57,500 - 7
West Midlands -24 17 £62,500 - 32
East of England -26 14 £65,000 +5.69% 26
South West -72 11 £50,000 -12.50% 30
Scotland +11 8 £60,533 +40.77% 14
Wales -68 6 £47,500 -6.31% 3
East Midlands -31 4 £57,500 +53.33% 19
Yorkshire -52 2 £70,500 +101.43% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 (5.28%) Confluence
2 7 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.03%) Camunda
4 4 (1.63%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.81%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.44%) Simulink
2 5 (2.03%) Lightworks
3 4 (1.63%) CATIA
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.41%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (15.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.44%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.44%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.44%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (2.03%) SAP PP
4 3 (1.22%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.22%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.22%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.81%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.81%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.41%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.41%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.41%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.41%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.41%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (30.08%) Azure
2 66 (26.83%) AWS
3 27 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (10.16%) GCP
5 22 (8.94%) GitHub
5 22 (8.94%) Serverless
6 16 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.28%) SaaS
9 12 (4.88%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.44%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.03%) Boomi
12 5 (2.03%) Vertex AI
13 4 (1.63%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.63%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.66%) Ethernet
1 9 (3.66%) IPv4
2 6 (2.44%) Modbus
3 5 (2.03%) DMZ
3 5 (2.03%) MQTT
3 5 (2.03%) OSPF
3 5 (2.03%) VLAN
3 5 (2.03%) VPN
4 4 (1.63%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.22%) SAN
5 3 (1.22%) Wireless
6 2 (0.81%) HTTP
7 1 (0.41%) ATM
7 1 (0.41%) DNS
7 1 (0.41%) Multicast
7 1 (0.41%) Profibus
7 1 (0.41%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.41%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.54%) Relational Database
2 17 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.69%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.66%) MySQL
5 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.63%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.63%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.22%) Redis
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.81%) DTS
7 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.81%) Power BI
7 2 (0.81%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.41%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (13.82%) Git
2 31 (12.60%) JIRA
3 30 (12.20%) Jenkins
4 24 (9.76%) GitLab
5 21 (8.54%) Postman
6 13 (5.28%) REST Assured
6 13 (5.28%) Selenium
7 12 (4.88%) JUnit
8 10 (4.07%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.25%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.25%) Zephyr
10 7 (2.85%) Mockito
11 6 (2.44%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.03%) JMeter
12 5 (2.03%) Maven
12 5 (2.03%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (2.03%) SoapUI
12 5 (2.03%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.63%) Apache Continuum
13 4 (1.63%) Newman
General
1 92 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.39%) Finance
3 49 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.60%) Manufacturing
5 25 (10.16%) Public Sector
6 23 (9.35%) Aerospace
6 23 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (5.69%) Electronics
8 13 (5.28%) Automotive
9 10 (4.07%) Law
10 8 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.85%) General Ledger
12 6 (2.44%) Marketing
13 5 (2.03%) Advertising
14 4 (1.63%) Legal
14 4 (1.63%) Military
14 4 (1.63%) Retail
14 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.81%) Aviation
15 2 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 54 (21.95%) Senior
2 46 (18.70%) Lead
3 43 (17.48%) Developer
4 31 (12.60%) Software Engineer
5 20 (8.13%) Consultant
6 17 (6.91%) Architect
6 17 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (6.50%) Test Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) Analyst
8 14 (5.69%) SAP Consultant
9 13 (5.28%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (4.47%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Embedded Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (2.85%) Integration Architect
14 7 (2.85%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.85%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.41%) REST
2 29 (11.79%) .NET
3 27 (10.98%) RESTful
4 26 (10.57%) React
5 24 (9.76%) Kafka
6 23 (9.35%) Spring
7 20 (8.13%) OAuth
8 19 (7.72%) JWT
8 19 (7.72%) Playwright
9 17 (6.91%) Spring Boot
10 16 (6.50%) AngularJS
10 16 (6.50%) Terraform
11 14 (5.69%) OAuth2
11 14 (5.69%) XML
12 13 (5.28%) JSON
13 12 (4.88%) Middleware
13 12 (4.88%) Node.js
13 12 (4.88%) SOAP
13 12 (4.88%) Web Services
14 11 (4.47%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (6.91%) Embedded Systems
5 16 (6.50%) Onboarding
6 15 (6.10%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (5.28%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.85%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (2.44%) Blog
9 6 (2.44%) IoT
9 6 (2.44%) SCADA
10 5 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.03%) FPGA
10 5 (2.03%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.03%) Verilog
10 5 (2.03%) VHDL
10 5 (2.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.16%) Linux
2 6 (2.44%) Windows
3 5 (2.03%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.03%) Unix
4 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.22%) Android
6 2 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (43.09%) Agile
2 105 (42.68%) CI/CD
3 78 (31.71%) Test Automation
4 75 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (29.27%) DevOps
6 66 (26.83%) Software Engineering
7 64 (26.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (23.17%) User Acceptance Testing
9 51 (20.73%) Validation
10 48 (19.51%) Mentoring
11 45 (18.29%) Migration
12 44 (17.89%) AI
13 42 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
14 41 (16.67%) Microservices
14 41 (16.67%) Test Strategy
15 37 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (14.63%) Containerisation
17 34 (13.82%) Unit Testing
18 32 (13.01%) System Integration Testing
19 29 (11.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.14%) Python
2 50 (20.33%) Java
3 42 (17.07%) SQL
4 25 (10.16%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.94%) C
7 19 (7.72%) C#
8 18 (7.32%) C++
9 9 (3.66%) ABAP
9 9 (3.66%) Bash
10 8 (3.25%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.85%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.85%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.85%) Ruby
12 5 (2.03%) Rust
13 4 (1.63%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.22%) Embedded C
14 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.22%) SOQL
14 3 (1.22%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 45 (18.29%) Degree
2 39 (15.85%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.57%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.72%) ISTQB
5 16 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.47%) AWS Certification
8 10 (4.07%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.25%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.44%) CCAB
10 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.03%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.63%) CCA
12 4 (1.63%) CCNA
12 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.63%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.63%) OSCP
12 4 (1.63%) RHCE
12 4 (1.63%) RHCSA
13 3 (1.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.45%) QA
2 24 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.85%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.85%) WCAG
4 6 (2.44%) GDPR
4 6 (2.44%) NCSC
5 4 (1.63%) Def Stans
5 4 (1.63%) GRC
5 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.63%) SLA
6 3 (1.22%) Automotive SPICE
6 3 (1.22%) ECSS
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) MISRA
7 1 (0.41%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 41 (16.67%) Docker
2 7 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.44%) Firmware
4 5 (2.03%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.63%) Squid
5 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.63%) vSphere
6 3 (1.22%) IAG
7 1 (0.41%) KVM
7 1 (0.41%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 30 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.66%) Ansible
3 4 (1.63%) Packer
3 4 (1.63%) Puppet
3 4 (1.63%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.22%) Functional Safety
4 3 (1.22%) Grafana
4 3 (1.22%) Kibana
4 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.81%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (16.67%) SAP
2 29 (11.79%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.32%) Oracle
4 11 (4.47%) Google
5 9 (3.66%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.44%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.44%) Splunk
7 6 (2.44%) VMware
7 6 (2.44%) YouTube
8 5 (2.03%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.03%) IBM
8 5 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.03%) Workday
9 3 (1.22%) EMC
9 3 (1.22%) webMethods
9 3 (1.22%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.81%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.81%) Concur
10 2 (0.81%) Pega