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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 506 503
Rank change year-on-year -51 -3 -15
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 217 175 341
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 125 105 197
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,577
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,450 £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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
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 £73,886
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 31 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 31 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 -65 182 £67,500 +12.50% 129
UK excluding London -52 126 £60,000 +4.35% 94
Work from Home -12 68 £60,000 -11.11% 59
London -38 63 £85,000 +25.93% 47
South East -36 43 £68,000 +10.43% 32
North of England -16 32 £60,000 +33.33% 14
North West +12 19 £67,500 +31.71% 8
South West -62 14 £50,000 -13.04% 10
Scotland +17 12 £46,000 - 6
East of England -14 11 £67,500 -4.59% 6
North East -39 11 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Midlands -47 8 £62,500 +19.05% 23
West Midlands -28 7 £62,500 +19.05% 18
Wales -55 6 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Yorkshire -40 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 (5.07%) Confluence
2 7 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.30%) Camunda
4 4 (1.84%) 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 (2.76%) Simulink
2 5 (2.30%) Lightworks
3 4 (1.84%) 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 32 (14.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.23%) SAP PP
3 6 (2.76%) SAP CO
3 6 (2.76%) SAP FI
3 6 (2.76%) 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%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
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 62 (28.57%) Azure
2 55 (25.35%) AWS
3 23 (10.60%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.68%) Serverless
5 19 (8.76%) GitHub
6 16 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.37%) GCP
7 14 (6.45%) SaaS
8 13 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.07%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.76%) IaaS
11 5 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.30%) Boomi
11 5 (2.30%) Vertex AI
12 4 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.84%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.69%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.76%) ATM
2 6 (2.76%) Multicast
2 6 (2.76%) tcpdump
2 6 (2.76%) Wireshark
3 5 (2.30%) MQTT
4 4 (1.84%) IPv4
4 4 (1.84%) 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 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.99%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.76%) MySQL
5 4 (1.84%) 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 30 (13.82%) Git
2 29 (13.36%) JIRA
3 23 (10.60%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.76%) Postman
5 15 (6.91%) GitLab
6 12 (5.53%) JUnit
6 12 (5.53%) REST Assured
7 11 (5.07%) Selenium
8 10 (4.61%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.69%) SpecFlow
10 7 (3.23%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.23%) Mockito
11 6 (2.76%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.30%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (1.84%) Apache Continuum
13 4 (1.84%) Maven
13 4 (1.84%) Zephyr
14 3 (1.38%) Gatling
14 3 (1.38%) Newman
14 3 (1.38%) PetaLinux
General
1 83 (38.25%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.96%) Finance
3 43 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.06%) Manufacturing
5 21 (9.68%) Aerospace
6 15 (6.91%) Automotive
7 13 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.53%) Electronics
9 11 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.23%) Law
10 7 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.76%) Spanish Language
12 5 (2.30%) Advertising
12 5 (2.30%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.30%) Military
13 4 (1.84%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.38%) Billing
15 2 (0.92%) Marketing
15 2 (0.92%) Retail
15 2 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (19.82%) Lead
2 40 (18.43%) Senior
3 38 (17.51%) Developer
4 25 (11.52%) Software Engineer
5 16 (7.37%) Analyst
6 15 (6.91%) Architect
6 15 (6.91%) Consultant
7 13 (5.99%) SAP Consultant
7 13 (5.99%) Systems Engineer
7 13 (5.99%) Test Engineer
8 11 (5.07%) Software Developer
9 9 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (4.15%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (3.23%) Integration Architect
10 7 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.23%) SAP PP Consultant
10 7 (3.23%) SAP QM Consultant
10 7 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.82%) REST
2 24 (11.06%) .NET
2 24 (11.06%) React
3 21 (9.68%) RESTful
4 19 (8.76%) OAuth
5 18 (8.29%) JWT
5 18 (8.29%) Kafka
5 18 (8.29%) Spring
6 17 (7.83%) AngularJS
7 16 (7.37%) Playwright
8 15 (6.91%) Spring Boot
9 14 (6.45%) OAuth2
10 12 (5.53%) Middleware
11 10 (4.61%) SOAP
12 9 (4.15%) Hibernate
12 9 (4.15%) JSON
12 9 (4.15%) Node.js
12 9 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.15%) XML
13 7 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.98%) Product Ownership
2 22 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (8.76%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.37%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (5.99%) Embedded Systems
6 12 (5.53%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.69%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.30%) FPGA
9 5 (2.30%) IoT
9 5 (2.30%) Verilog
9 5 (2.30%) VHDL
9 5 (2.30%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.84%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.84%) Blog
10 4 (1.84%) CMDB
10 4 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.84%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.44%) Linux
2 7 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.76%) Windows
4 5 (2.30%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (1.84%) 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 (42.86%) Agile
2 87 (40.09%) CI/CD
3 67 (30.88%) Test Automation
4 60 (27.65%) DevOps
5 59 (27.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (25.35%) Software Engineering
7 52 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (23.50%) User Acceptance Testing
9 43 (19.82%) Validation
10 41 (18.89%) Migration
11 40 (18.43%) Microservices
12 36 (16.59%) Test Strategy
13 34 (15.67%) Mentoring
14 31 (14.29%) AI
15 29 (13.36%) Containerisation
15 29 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (12.90%) System Integration Testing
17 26 (11.98%) Unit Testing
18 25 (11.52%) Data Migration
19 24 (11.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.20%) Python
2 41 (18.89%) Java
3 32 (14.75%) SQL
4 24 (11.06%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.29%) C
7 17 (7.83%) C#
8 16 (7.37%) C++
9 7 (3.23%) MATLAB
9 7 (3.23%) Ruby
10 6 (2.76%) Bash
11 5 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.30%) 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 42 (19.35%) Degree
2 36 (16.59%) Security Cleared
3 25 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (7.37%) ISTQB
5 14 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.76%) CCAB
7 6 (2.76%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.76%) PMP
8 5 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.30%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.84%) CCA
9 4 (1.84%) CCNA
9 4 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.84%) OSCP
9 4 (1.84%) RHCE
9 4 (1.84%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.67%) QA
2 21 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.23%) WCAG
4 4 (1.84%) Def Stans
4 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (1.84%) SLA
5 3 (1.38%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
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%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (19.82%) Docker
2 12 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.76%) Firmware
3 6 (2.76%) KVM
4 5 (2.30%) vSphere
5 4 (1.84%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (1.84%) Squid
5 4 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.46%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (15.21%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.45%) Terraform
3 13 (5.99%) Ansible
4 7 (3.23%) Puppet
5 4 (1.84%) Grafana
5 4 (1.84%) Kibana
5 4 (1.84%) Packer
5 4 (1.84%) 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 33 (15.21%) SAP
2 24 (11.06%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.91%) Oracle
4 13 (5.99%) VMware
5 10 (4.61%) Google
6 9 (4.15%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.76%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.76%) Splunk
8 5 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.30%) IBM
8 5 (2.30%) 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%) YouTube
11 1 (0.46%) EMC
11 1 (0.46%) Informatica