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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 505 514
Rank change year-on-year -53 +9 -23
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 218 175 341
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.40% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 126 105 197
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,577
25th Percentile £47,813 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,125 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -1.29%

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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 29 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 29 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 -69 182 £67,500 +12.50% 121
UK excluding London -59 126 £60,000 +4.35% 89
Work from Home -25 69 £59,283 -12.17% 56
London -26 64 £85,000 +25.93% 44
South East -36 41 £72,500 +17.74% 25
North of England -23 32 £60,000 +33.33% 13
North West -5 19 £67,500 +31.71% 8
South West -58 14 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Scotland +22 13 £45,500 - 7
East of England -19 11 £67,500 -4.59% 6
North East -41 11 £57,500 +9.52% 1
Midlands -41 9 £62,500 +19.05% 24
West Midlands -35 8 £63,750 +21.43% 19
Wales -53 6 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Yorkshire -36 2 £60,000 +71.43% 4
East Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 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 11 (5.05%) Confluence
2 7 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.29%) Camunda
4 4 (1.83%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.38%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.92%) SAS
7 1 (0.46%) Apache
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (2.75%) Simulink
2 5 (2.29%) Lightworks
3 4 (1.83%) CATIA
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (14.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.21%) SAP PP
3 6 (2.75%) SAP CO
3 6 (2.75%) SAP FI
3 6 (2.75%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.38%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.92%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.92%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.92%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.92%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.46%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.46%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.46%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.46%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.46%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.46%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (29.36%) Azure
2 55 (25.23%) AWS
3 24 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.63%) Serverless
5 20 (9.17%) GitHub
6 16 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.34%) GCP
7 14 (6.42%) SaaS
8 13 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.75%) IaaS
11 5 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.29%) Boomi
11 5 (2.29%) Vertex AI
12 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.75%) ATM
2 6 (2.75%) Multicast
2 6 (2.75%) tcpdump
2 6 (2.75%) Wireshark
3 5 (2.29%) MQTT
4 4 (1.83%) IPv4
4 4 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.38%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.38%) SAN
5 3 (1.38%) Wireless
6 2 (0.92%) HTTP
7 1 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.42%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.75%) MySQL
5 4 (1.83%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.38%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.38%) Redis
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.92%) DTS
7 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.92%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (14.22%) Git
2 29 (13.30%) JIRA
3 23 (10.55%) Jenkins
4 20 (9.17%) Postman
5 15 (6.88%) GitLab
6 12 (5.50%) JUnit
6 12 (5.50%) REST Assured
6 12 (5.50%) Selenium
7 11 (5.05%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.67%) SpecFlow
9 7 (3.21%) Bitbucket
9 7 (3.21%) Mockito
10 6 (2.75%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.29%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (1.83%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (1.83%) JMeter
12 4 (1.83%) Maven
12 4 (1.83%) Zephyr
13 3 (1.38%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.38%) SoapUI
General
1 82 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.85%) Finance
3 43 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.01%) Manufacturing
5 20 (9.17%) Aerospace
6 16 (7.34%) Automotive
7 13 (5.96%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.05%) Electronics
9 10 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.21%) Law
10 7 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.75%) Spanish Language
12 5 (2.29%) Advertising
12 5 (2.29%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.29%) Military
13 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.38%) Billing
14 3 (1.38%) Retail
15 2 (0.92%) Legal
15 2 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (19.72%) Lead
2 39 (17.89%) Senior
3 38 (17.43%) Developer
4 25 (11.47%) Software Engineer
5 16 (7.34%) Analyst
6 15 (6.88%) Architect
7 14 (6.42%) Consultant
8 13 (5.96%) SAP Consultant
8 13 (5.96%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (5.96%) Test Engineer
9 11 (5.05%) Software Developer
10 9 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.13%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) QA Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Embedded Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) SAP PP Consultant
12 7 (3.21%) SAP QM Consultant
12 7 (3.21%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.76%) REST
2 24 (11.01%) .NET
2 24 (11.01%) React
3 20 (9.17%) RESTful
4 19 (8.72%) OAuth
5 18 (8.26%) JWT
5 18 (8.26%) Kafka
5 18 (8.26%) Spring
6 17 (7.80%) AngularJS
6 17 (7.80%) Playwright
7 15 (6.88%) Spring Boot
8 14 (6.42%) OAuth2
9 12 (5.50%) Middleware
10 10 (4.59%) SOAP
11 9 (4.13%) Hibernate
11 9 (4.13%) JSON
11 9 (4.13%) Node.js
11 9 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (4.13%) XML
12 7 (3.21%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.93%) Product Ownership
2 22 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (9.17%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.34%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (5.50%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (5.50%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.13%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.21%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.29%) FPGA
8 5 (2.29%) IoT
8 5 (2.29%) Verilog
8 5 (2.29%) VHDL
8 5 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.83%) Blog
9 4 (1.83%) CMDB
9 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.39%) Linux
2 7 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.75%) Windows
4 5 (2.29%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.38%) Android
6 3 (1.38%) Unix
7 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.66%) Agile
2 89 (40.83%) CI/CD
3 67 (30.73%) Test Automation
4 61 (27.98%) DevOps
5 59 (27.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (25.23%) Software Engineering
7 51 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (23.39%) User Acceptance Testing
8 43 (19.72%) Validation
9 40 (18.35%) Microservices
9 40 (18.35%) Migration
10 36 (16.51%) Test Strategy
11 33 (15.14%) Mentoring
12 32 (14.68%) AI
13 29 (13.30%) Containerisation
13 29 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (12.84%) System Integration Testing
15 26 (11.93%) Unit Testing
16 25 (11.47%) Data Migration
17 24 (11.01%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.56%) Python
2 41 (18.81%) Java
3 33 (15.14%) SQL
4 25 (11.47%) JavaScript
5 22 (10.09%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.26%) C
7 17 (7.80%) C#
8 16 (7.34%) C++
9 7 (3.21%) MATLAB
9 7 (3.21%) Ruby
10 6 (2.75%) Bash
11 5 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.29%) Rust
12 3 (1.38%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.38%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.38%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.92%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.92%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 41 (18.81%) Degree
2 36 (16.51%) Security Cleared
3 25 (11.47%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (7.34%) ISTQB
5 14 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.75%) CCAB
7 6 (2.75%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.75%) PMP
8 5 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.83%) CCA
9 4 (1.83%) CCNA
9 4 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.83%) OSCP
9 4 (1.83%) RHCE
9 4 (1.83%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.51%) QA
2 21 (9.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.21%) WCAG
4 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.83%) Def Stans
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (1.83%) SLA
5 3 (1.38%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.38%) ECSS
5 3 (1.38%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) ARP4754
7 1 (0.46%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.46%) DO-160
7 1 (0.46%) GxP
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) NCSC
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (19.72%) Docker
2 12 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.21%) Firmware
4 6 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.75%) KVM
5 5 (2.29%) vSphere
6 4 (1.83%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (1.83%) Squid
6 4 (1.83%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.46%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (15.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.42%) Terraform
3 13 (5.96%) Ansible
4 7 (3.21%) Puppet
5 4 (1.83%) Grafana
5 4 (1.83%) Kibana
5 4 (1.83%) Packer
5 4 (1.83%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.38%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.92%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.46%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (14.68%) SAP
2 24 (11.01%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.88%) Oracle
4 13 (5.96%) VMware
5 10 (4.59%) Google
6 9 (4.13%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.75%) Splunk
8 5 (2.29%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.29%) IBM
8 5 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.38%) webMethods
9 3 (1.38%) Workday
9 3 (1.38%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.92%) Ariba
10 2 (0.92%) Concur
10 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.92%) YouTube
11 1 (0.46%) Informatica