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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 506 469
Rank change year-on-year -39 -37 -10
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 235 173 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.39% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 135 103 185
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,950
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,893 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.35% -2.80% -4.17%

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 78,774 44,506 67,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 89.17% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,302 25,213 43,010
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -45 202 £68,500 +14.17% 259
UK excluding London -44 141 £60,000 +7.35% 178
London -34 70 £85,000 +25.93% 110
Work from Home -14 64 £62,500 -7.41% 107
South East -27 47 £68,500 +11.25% 50
North of England -17 40 £61,500 +36.67% 28
North West +1 22 £67,500 +31.71% 16
North East -41 16 £57,500 +9.52% 7
East of England -18 13 £65,000 +5.69% 19
Scotland +5 12 £46,000 - 14
South West -63 12 £50,000 -12.50% 21
Midlands -40 11 £62,500 +8.70% 40
West Midlands -30 10 £59,250 +3.04% 28
Wales -55 6 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Yorkshire -31 2 £60,000 +71.43% 9
East Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 12

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 10 (4.26%) Confluence
2 7 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.13%) Camunda
4 4 (1.70%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.28%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.85%) SAS
7 1 (0.43%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.55%) CATIA
1 6 (2.55%) Simulink
2 5 (2.13%) Lightworks
3 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (14.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.55%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.55%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.55%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (2.55%) SAP PP
3 3 (1.28%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.28%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.85%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.85%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.85%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP ECC
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (29.36%) Azure
2 62 (26.38%) AWS
3 24 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (9.79%) GCP
5 22 (9.36%) Serverless
6 19 (8.09%) GitHub
7 16 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (6.38%) SaaS
9 12 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (4.68%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.13%) Boomi
12 5 (2.13%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.13%) Vertex AI
13 4 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.55%) Ethernet
1 6 (2.55%) IPv4
2 5 (2.13%) MQTT
2 5 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.70%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.28%) ATM
4 3 (1.28%) Modbus
4 3 (1.28%) Multicast
4 3 (1.28%) SAN
4 3 (1.28%) tcpdump
4 3 (1.28%) Wireless
4 3 (1.28%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.85%) DMZ
5 2 (0.85%) HTTP
5 2 (0.85%) OSPF
5 2 (0.85%) VLAN
5 2 (0.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) Network Security
6 1 (0.43%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.94%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.38%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.83%) MySQL
5 4 (1.70%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.70%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.28%) Redis
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.85%) DTS
7 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.85%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (12.77%) Git
2 29 (12.34%) JIRA
3 25 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.09%) GitLab
4 19 (8.09%) Postman
5 12 (5.11%) JUnit
5 12 (5.11%) REST Assured
6 11 (4.68%) Selenium
7 10 (4.26%) Cypress.io
8 9 (3.83%) SpecFlow
9 7 (2.98%) Mockito
9 7 (2.98%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (2.55%) Apache Continuum
10 6 (2.55%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.55%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.70%) Maven
11 4 (1.70%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.70%) Zephyr
12 3 (1.28%) Newman
12 3 (1.28%) PetaLinux
General
1 88 (37.45%) Social Skills
2 59 (25.11%) Finance
3 45 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.64%) Manufacturing
5 23 (9.79%) Aerospace
6 21 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (8.09%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.53%) Electronics
9 12 (5.11%) Automotive
10 10 (4.26%) Law
11 7 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.55%) General Ledger
12 6 (2.55%) Marketing
13 5 (2.13%) Advertising
14 4 (1.70%) Legal
14 4 (1.70%) Military
14 4 (1.70%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.28%) Retail
15 3 (1.28%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 53 (22.55%) Senior
2 44 (18.72%) Lead
3 40 (17.02%) Developer
4 32 (13.62%) Software Engineer
5 17 (7.23%) Architect
5 17 (7.23%) Consultant
6 16 (6.81%) Analyst
6 16 (6.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (5.96%) Test Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (4.68%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.26%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.40%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Embedded Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.98%) Integration Architect
13 7 (2.98%) Test Automation Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.62%) REST
2 28 (11.91%) .NET
3 27 (11.49%) RESTful
4 24 (10.21%) React
5 23 (9.79%) Kafka
6 22 (9.36%) Spring
7 20 (8.51%) OAuth
8 19 (8.09%) JWT
9 18 (7.66%) AngularJS
10 16 (6.81%) Playwright
10 16 (6.81%) Spring Boot
11 14 (5.96%) OAuth2
12 12 (5.11%) Node.js
13 11 (4.68%) Middleware
13 11 (4.68%) XML
14 10 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (4.26%) SOAP
14 10 (4.26%) Web Services
15 9 (3.83%) .NET Framework
15 9 (3.83%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.36%) Cloud Native
1 22 (9.36%) Distributed Systems
1 22 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (5.96%) Embedded Systems
4 13 (5.53%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.53%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.98%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (2.55%) Blog
7 5 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.13%) FPGA
7 5 (2.13%) IoT
7 5 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.13%) Verilog
7 5 (2.13%) VHDL
8 4 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.21%) Linux
2 6 (2.55%) Windows
3 5 (2.13%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.70%) Unix
4 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.28%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (42.13%) Agile
2 95 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 74 (31.49%) Test Automation
4 65 (27.66%) DevOps
4 65 (27.66%) Software Engineering
5 61 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (24.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (21.70%) User Acceptance Testing
8 46 (19.57%) Migration
9 45 (19.15%) Validation
10 42 (17.87%) Microservices
11 38 (16.17%) AI
11 38 (16.17%) Mentoring
12 37 (15.74%) Test Strategy
13 35 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (14.04%) Containerisation
15 32 (13.62%) Unit Testing
16 30 (12.77%) System Integration Testing
17 28 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
18 26 (11.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.28%) Python
2 45 (19.15%) Java
3 39 (16.60%) SQL
4 25 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.79%) TypeScript
6 19 (8.09%) C
7 18 (7.66%) C#
8 16 (6.81%) C++
9 8 (3.40%) Bash
9 8 (3.40%) MATLAB
10 7 (2.98%) ABAP
10 7 (2.98%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.98%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.98%) Ruby
11 4 (1.70%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.70%) Rust
12 3 (1.28%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.28%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.28%) SOQL
12 3 (1.28%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 43 (18.30%) Degree
2 35 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (6.81%) ISTQB
6 15 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.83%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.40%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.40%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.55%) CCAB
10 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.70%) CCA
11 4 (1.70%) CCNA
11 4 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.70%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.70%) OSCP
11 4 (1.70%) RHCE
11 4 (1.70%) RHCSA
12 3 (1.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.62%) QA
2 23 (9.79%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.98%) WCAG
4 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 5 (2.13%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.70%) Def Stans
6 4 (1.70%) NCSC
6 4 (1.70%) SLA
7 3 (1.28%) Automotive SPICE
7 3 (1.28%) ECSS
7 3 (1.28%) GDPR
8 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.43%) ARP4754
9 1 (0.43%) ARP4761
9 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.43%) DO-160
9 1 (0.43%) GxP
9 1 (0.43%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (17.87%) Docker
2 7 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.55%) Firmware
4 4 (1.70%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.70%) Squid
4 4 (1.70%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.70%) vSphere
5 3 (1.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 31 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.38%) Terraform
3 11 (4.68%) Ansible
4 6 (2.55%) Puppet
5 4 (1.70%) Packer
5 4 (1.70%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.28%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.28%) Grafana
6 3 (1.28%) Kibana
6 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.85%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.43%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (15.32%) SAP
2 25 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.66%) Oracle
4 11 (4.68%) Google
5 9 (3.83%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.40%) VMware
7 7 (2.98%) IBM
8 6 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.55%) Splunk
9 5 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.13%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.70%) Workday
10 4 (1.70%) YouTube
11 3 (1.28%) webMethods
11 3 (1.28%) Xilinx
12 2 (0.85%) Ariba
12 2 (0.85%) Concur
12 2 (0.85%) EMC
12 2 (0.85%) Informatica