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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 515 425
Rank change year-on-year -26 -90 +48
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 267 158 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.36% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 137 94 144
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £60,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% +1.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,000 £75,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £87,500 £89,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.13% +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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £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 £77,500
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 22 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 22 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 -45 236 £70,000 +13.14% 436
UK excluding London -65 167 £62,750 +9.13% 297
Work from Home -19 76 £67,500 +8.00% 181
London -51 75 £85,000 +21.43% 168
North of England -28 55 £65,250 +63.13% 53
South East -41 45 £68,500 +8.47% 76
North West -18 27 £67,500 +42.11% 23
Midlands -31 25 £62,500 +8.70% 54
North East - 21 £58,750 - 11
West Midlands -38 20 £70,000 +19.15% 30
East of England -15 17 £55,765 -9.33% 35
South West -76 12 £50,000 -13.04% 33
Scotland +8 7 £63,750 +48.26% 31
Yorkshire -45 7 £72,500 +107.14% 19
Wales -72 6 £47,500 -6.31% 8
East Midlands -25 5 £57,500 +53.33% 23
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 (4.87%) Confluence
2 7 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.25%) Camunda
4 4 (1.50%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.75%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.37%) JBoss
7 1 (0.37%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Simulink
2 6 (2.25%) Lightworks
3 4 (1.50%) CATIA
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 42 (15.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.25%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.25%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.25%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.87%) SAP PP
3 5 (1.87%) SAP PSCD
4 4 (1.50%) SAP GRC
4 4 (1.50%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.75%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.75%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Magento
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.37%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.37%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (26.59%) AWS
1 71 (26.59%) Azure
2 27 (10.11%) GCP
2 27 (10.11%) GitHub
2 27 (10.11%) Serverless
3 25 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.99%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.87%) SaaS
8 9 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.25%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.87%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.87%) Boomi
12 5 (1.87%) Vertex AI
13 4 (1.50%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.49%) Ethernet
2 11 (4.12%) IPv4
3 8 (3.00%) Modbus
4 7 (2.62%) DMZ
4 7 (2.62%) OSPF
4 7 (2.62%) VLAN
4 7 (2.62%) VPN
5 6 (2.25%) MQTT
6 4 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.50%) Wireless
7 3 (1.12%) SAN
7 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.75%) HTTP
8 2 (0.75%) RFID
9 1 (0.37%) DNS
9 1 (0.37%) Profibus
9 1 (0.37%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.87%) Relational Database
2 16 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.00%) MySQL
5 4 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.50%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.50%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.12%) Redis
6 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.75%) DTS
7 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.75%) Power BI
7 2 (0.75%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.37%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (14.23%) JIRA
2 35 (13.11%) Git
3 34 (12.73%) Jenkins
4 28 (10.49%) GitLab
5 22 (8.24%) Postman
6 14 (5.24%) Cypress.io
7 13 (4.87%) JUnit
8 12 (4.49%) REST Assured
8 12 (4.49%) Selenium
9 9 (3.37%) JMeter
10 8 (3.00%) Cucumber
10 8 (3.00%) Mockito
10 8 (3.00%) Zephyr
11 6 (2.25%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.25%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (1.87%) Maven
13 4 (1.50%) Apache Continuum
13 4 (1.50%) Newman
13 4 (1.50%) PetaLinux
13 4 (1.50%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 64 (23.97%) Finance
3 48 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.86%) Manufacturing
5 31 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 28 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (9.36%) Aerospace
8 15 (5.62%) Automotive
9 13 (4.87%) Electronics
10 11 (4.12%) General Ledger
11 10 (3.75%) Law
12 8 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.62%) Retail
14 6 (2.25%) Marketing
15 5 (1.87%) Advertising
15 5 (1.87%) Aviation
16 4 (1.50%) Military
17 3 (1.12%) Legal
17 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
18 2 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 52 (19.48%) Senior
2 47 (17.60%) Lead
3 39 (14.61%) Developer
4 33 (12.36%) Software Engineer
5 22 (8.24%) Consultant
6 20 (7.49%) Test Engineer
7 17 (6.37%) Analyst
7 17 (6.37%) Architect
8 16 (5.99%) SAP Consultant
8 16 (5.99%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (4.49%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.49%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.00%) Test Analyst
12 8 (3.00%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.11%) REST
2 30 (11.24%) RESTful
3 26 (9.74%) .NET
3 26 (9.74%) React
4 24 (8.99%) Kafka
4 24 (8.99%) Spring
5 23 (8.61%) Playwright
6 20 (7.49%) OAuth
7 18 (6.74%) JWT
7 18 (6.74%) Spring Boot
8 17 (6.37%) Terraform
9 16 (5.99%) AngularJS
9 16 (5.99%) SAP Fiori
10 13 (4.87%) JSON
10 13 (4.87%) Middleware
10 13 (4.87%) OAuth2
10 13 (4.87%) Web Services
10 13 (4.87%) XML
11 12 (4.49%) Node.js
11 12 (4.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.24%) Product Ownership
2 28 (10.49%) Cloud Native
3 23 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (7.87%) Onboarding
5 18 (6.74%) Management Information System
6 16 (5.99%) Embedded Systems
7 14 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.37%) IoT
9 8 (3.00%) SCADA
10 7 (2.62%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (2.25%) Blog
11 6 (2.25%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.25%) FPGA
11 6 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.25%) Verilog
11 6 (2.25%) VHDL
12 5 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.99%) Linux
2 10 (3.75%) Windows
3 7 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.25%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.87%) Unix
6 2 (0.75%) Android
6 2 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (43.07%) Agile
2 113 (42.32%) CI/CD
3 83 (31.09%) Test Automation
4 82 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (27.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (26.59%) DevOps
6 71 (26.59%) Software Engineering
7 69 (25.84%) User Acceptance Testing
8 55 (20.60%) Validation
9 54 (20.22%) AI
10 53 (19.85%) Migration
11 50 (18.73%) Mentoring
12 47 (17.60%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (15.73%) Microservices
14 42 (15.73%) Test Strategy
15 38 (14.23%) System Integration Testing
16 36 (13.48%) Containerisation
17 33 (12.36%) Scrum
17 33 (12.36%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.48%) Python
2 50 (18.73%) Java
3 45 (16.85%) SQL
4 30 (11.24%) TypeScript
5 29 (10.86%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.24%) C
7 19 (7.12%) C++
8 17 (6.37%) C#
9 13 (4.87%) ABAP
10 9 (3.37%) Bash
10 9 (3.37%) MATLAB
11 8 (3.00%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.62%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.62%) Ruby
13 6 (2.25%) Rust
14 4 (1.50%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.12%) DataWeave
15 3 (1.12%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.12%) Embedded C++
15 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (18.35%) Degree
1 49 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.24%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (5.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.87%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.49%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.37%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.25%) CCAB
9 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.25%) SAP Certification
10 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.50%) CCNA
11 4 (1.50%) CISA
11 4 (1.50%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.50%) OSCP
11 4 (1.50%) RHCE
11 4 (1.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.73%) QA
2 25 (9.36%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.00%) NCSC
3 8 (3.00%) WCAG
4 7 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.62%) GDPR
5 5 (1.87%) GRC
5 5 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.87%) SLA
6 4 (1.50%) Def Stans
6 4 (1.50%) ECSS
6 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.12%) Automotive SPICE
8 2 (0.75%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.37%) MISRA
9 1 (0.37%) MISRA C
System Software
1 39 (14.61%) Docker
2 7 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.87%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.87%) Firmware
5 4 (1.50%) IAG
5 4 (1.50%) Squid
5 4 (1.50%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.50%) vSphere
6 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 29 (10.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.00%) Ansible
3 4 (1.50%) Packer
3 4 (1.50%) ZABBIX
4 3 (1.12%) Functional Safety
4 3 (1.12%) Kibana
4 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.12%) Puppet
5 2 (0.75%) Grafana
5 2 (0.75%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (17.60%) SAP
2 28 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.12%) Oracle
4 11 (4.12%) Google
5 9 (3.37%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.37%) YouTube
6 8 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.00%) Workday
7 7 (2.62%) VMware
8 6 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.25%) Splunk
9 5 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.87%) IBM
9 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.50%) Xilinx
11 3 (1.12%) EMC
11 3 (1.12%) webMethods
12 2 (0.75%) Ariba
12 2 (0.75%) Citrix
12 2 (0.75%) Informatica