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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 508 422
Rank change year-on-year -16 -86 +30
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 297 163 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 155 87 125
10th Percentile £44,206 £41,050 £40,200
25th Percentile £50,750 £48,705 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,750 £96,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £54,793
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.50% -0.38%

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 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -36 263 £68,500 +5.38% 341
UK excluding London -59 190 £62,500 +4.17% 204
Work from Home -12 85 £67,500 - 137
London -28 80 £85,000 +6.25% 152
North of England -15 59 £62,500 +13.64% 30
South East -49 48 £68,500 +4.86% 53
Midlands -26 37 £62,500 +6.38% 38
West Midlands -18 31 £70,000 +16.67% 23
North West -12 27 £61,500 +11.82% 13
East of England -18 23 £46,000 -25.20% 18
North East - 23 £57,500 - 6
South West -72 11 £50,000 -12.50% 38
Yorkshire -29 9 £65,000 +23.81% 12
Scotland +5 6 £63,750 +48.26% 18
East Midlands -28 6 £57,500 +53.33% 15
Wales -70 6 £47,500 -6.31% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 9 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.36%) Camunda
4 4 (1.35%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.35%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (2.69%) Simulink
2 6 (2.02%) Lightworks
2 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.68%) CATIA
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.34%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 42 (14.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.36%) SAP CO
2 7 (2.36%) SAP FI
2 7 (2.36%) SAP FI/CO
2 7 (2.36%) SAP PSCD
3 5 (1.68%) SAP PP
3 5 (1.68%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.35%) SAP GRC
5 3 (1.01%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.67%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.67%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.34%) Magento
7 1 (0.34%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.34%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.58%) Azure
2 68 (22.90%) AWS
3 28 (9.43%) GitHub
4 27 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (9.09%) GCP
4 27 (9.09%) Serverless
5 22 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (5.72%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.71%) SaaS
9 9 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.36%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.02%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.68%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
13 5 (1.68%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.72%) Ethernet
2 14 (4.71%) IPv4
3 13 (4.38%) Modbus
4 12 (4.04%) DMZ
4 12 (4.04%) OSPF
4 12 (4.04%) VLAN
4 12 (4.04%) VPN
5 6 (2.02%) MQTT
6 4 (1.35%) RFID
6 4 (1.35%) Wireless
7 3 (1.01%) SAN
7 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.67%) HTTP
8 2 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.34%) DNS
9 1 (0.34%) Internet
9 1 (0.34%) Profibus
9 1 (0.34%) Wideband
9 1 (0.34%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.07%) Relational Database
2 17 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.03%) MySQL
5 5 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.01%) Power BI
7 3 (1.01%) Redis
8 2 (0.67%) DTS
8 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.67%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.67%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.34%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 41 (13.80%) JIRA
2 36 (12.12%) Git
3 32 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 28 (9.43%) GitLab
5 20 (6.73%) Postman
6 14 (4.71%) Cypress.io
7 13 (4.38%) JUnit
8 12 (4.04%) Selenium
9 10 (3.37%) Rational DOORS
9 10 (3.37%) REST Assured
9 10 (3.37%) Zephyr
10 9 (3.03%) JMeter
10 9 (3.03%) Mockito
11 7 (2.36%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.35%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (1.35%) Maven
12 4 (1.35%) Newman
12 4 (1.35%) PetaLinux
13 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 104 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.56%) Finance
3 49 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (15.15%) Manufacturing
5 34 (11.45%) Public Sector
6 31 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (8.75%) Aerospace
8 16 (5.39%) Automotive
9 14 (4.71%) Electronics
10 13 (4.38%) Retail
11 11 (3.70%) General Ledger
11 11 (3.70%) Law
12 7 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.02%) Advertising
13 6 (2.02%) Aviation
13 6 (2.02%) Marketing
13 6 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.68%) Military
15 4 (1.35%) Publishing
16 2 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (18.18%) Senior
2 45 (15.15%) Developer
3 42 (14.14%) Lead
4 34 (11.45%) Software Engineer
5 20 (6.73%) Consultant
6 19 (6.40%) Test Engineer
7 18 (6.06%) Analyst
8 17 (5.72%) Architect
8 17 (5.72%) Principal Engineer
9 16 (5.39%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 14 (4.71%) SAP Consultant
11 13 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) Control Systems Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.37%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.37%) Test Analyst
14 8 (2.69%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.11%) REST
2 31 (10.44%) RESTful
3 29 (9.76%) .NET
4 26 (8.75%) React
5 25 (8.42%) Spring
6 23 (7.74%) Kafka
6 23 (7.74%) Playwright
7 19 (6.40%) OAuth
7 19 (6.40%) Spring Boot
8 17 (5.72%) JWT
8 17 (5.72%) SAP Fiori
9 16 (5.39%) Terraform
10 15 (5.05%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.38%) Node.js
11 13 (4.38%) Web Services
12 12 (4.04%) JSON
12 12 (4.04%) Middleware
12 12 (4.04%) OAuth2
13 11 (3.70%) SOAP
13 11 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.77%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (7.07%) Management Information System
5 19 (6.40%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.39%) Embedded Systems
7 14 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (4.38%) SCADA
9 12 (4.04%) IoT
10 9 (3.03%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.36%) Robotics
11 7 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.02%) Blog
12 6 (2.02%) FPGA
12 6 (2.02%) Mobile App
12 6 (2.02%) Verilog
12 6 (2.02%) VHDL
13 5 (1.68%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.41%) Linux
2 12 (4.04%) Windows
3 9 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.02%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.68%) Unix
6 3 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.34%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (40.40%) Agile
2 114 (38.38%) CI/CD
3 91 (30.64%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (29.63%) Test Automation
5 79 (26.60%) User Acceptance Testing
6 78 (26.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (24.24%) DevOps
7 72 (24.24%) Software Engineering
8 68 (22.90%) Validation
9 62 (20.88%) AI
10 57 (19.19%) Technical Leadership
11 56 (18.86%) Migration
12 55 (18.52%) Mentoring
13 50 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (15.49%) Test Strategy
15 43 (14.48%) Microservices
16 41 (13.80%) System Integration Testing
17 37 (12.46%) Unit Testing
18 36 (12.12%) End-to-End Testing
19 35 (11.78%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.85%) Python
2 52 (17.51%) SQL
3 50 (16.84%) Java
4 30 (10.10%) TypeScript
5 29 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 23 (7.74%) C
7 20 (6.73%) C++
8 19 (6.40%) C#
9 15 (5.05%) ABAP
10 10 (3.37%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.36%) Bash
11 7 (2.36%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.36%) Ruby
12 6 (2.02%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.68%) Rust
14 4 (1.35%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.01%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.01%) Embedded C++
15 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.01%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 57 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.18%) Degree
3 43 (14.48%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.07%) ISTQB
5 18 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.38%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.04%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.03%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.69%) SAP Certification
11 7 (2.36%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.02%) CCAB
13 5 (1.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 5 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.35%) CCA
14 4 (1.35%) CISA
14 4 (1.35%) CISSP
14 4 (1.35%) DBS Check
15 3 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.16%) QA
2 25 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.03%) NCSC
5 8 (2.69%) WCAG
6 7 (2.36%) GDPR
7 5 (1.68%) GRC
7 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 5 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.68%) SLA
8 4 (1.35%) Def Stans
8 4 (1.35%) ECSS
8 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.35%) PMO
9 3 (1.01%) Automotive SPICE
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.34%) MISRA
10 1 (0.34%) MISRA C
System Software
1 37 (12.46%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.02%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (2.02%) Firmware
4 5 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.35%) IAG
6 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.67%) Squid
7 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.67%) vSphere
8 1 (0.34%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 26 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.02%) Ansible
3 3 (1.01%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.01%) Puppet
4 2 (0.67%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.67%) Kibana
4 2 (0.67%) Packer
4 2 (0.67%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (17.17%) SAP
2 28 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.06%) Oracle
4 11 (3.70%) Google
4 11 (3.70%) YouTube
5 10 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.03%) Workday
7 8 (2.69%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.02%) IBM
8 6 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.02%) VMware
9 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.35%) Splunk
9 4 (1.35%) Xilinx
10 3 (1.01%) Ariba
10 3 (1.01%) Citrix
10 3 (1.01%) Concur
10 3 (1.01%) EMC
10 3 (1.01%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.01%) webMethods