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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 502 552
Rank change year-on-year -52 +50 -59
Permanent jobs citing Integration Testing 200 176 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.41% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 114 108 238
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,727 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,420 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +4.03% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,675 £85,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,785 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +3.25% -

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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 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 1 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 -51 168 £67,500 +8.00% 117
UK excluding London -57 113 £60,000 +5.66% 107
Work from Home -6 64 £60,000 -11.11% 46
London -41 56 £75,000 +7.72% 29
South East -20 47 £75,000 +17.65% 36
North of England -35 24 £60,000 +29.73% 24
North West +2 15 £72,500 +31.82% 13
Scotland +26 12 £45,500 - 6
South West -59 12 £51,750 -10.00% 17
East of England -9 9 £71,250 -10.94% 5
North East -45 8 £57,500 +9.52% 5
Midlands -48 6 £62,500 +35.14% 17
West Midlands -38 5 £63,750 +34.21% 10
Wales -48 3 £47,500 -5.00% 1
East Midlands -27 1 £62,500 +78.57% 7
Yorkshire -42 1 - - 6

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 (6.50%) Confluence
2 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Camunda
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Simulink
2 5 (2.50%) Lightworks
3 4 (2.00%) CATIA
3 4 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.50%) SAP PP
3 4 (2.00%) SAP CO
3 4 (2.00%) SAP FI
3 4 (2.00%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.50%) Workday HCM
5 2 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (1.00%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (1.00%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.00%) SAP PM
5 2 (1.00%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.50%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.50%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.50%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.50%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.00%) Azure
2 47 (23.50%) AWS
3 20 (10.00%) Serverless
4 17 (8.50%) GitHub
5 15 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.50%) SaaS
7 11 (5.50%) GCP
7 11 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.00%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.50%) IaaS
10 6 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.50%) Boomi
11 5 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.00%) Lucidchart
12 4 (2.00%) PaaS
13 3 (1.50%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.00%) ATM
2 6 (3.00%) MQTT
2 6 (3.00%) Multicast
2 6 (3.00%) tcpdump
2 6 (3.00%) Wireshark
3 4 (2.00%) IPv4
3 4 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.50%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.50%) Wireless
5 2 (1.00%) HTTP
5 2 (1.00%) Network Security
5 2 (1.00%) SAN
6 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.50%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.50%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.00%) MySQL
4 4 (2.00%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.50%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.00%) DTS
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.00%) Redis
6 2 (1.00%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.50%) Big Data
7 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.50%) Power BI
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (14.00%) JIRA
2 27 (13.50%) Git
3 23 (11.50%) Jenkins
4 18 (9.00%) Postman
5 14 (7.00%) GitLab
6 11 (5.50%) REST Assured
6 11 (5.50%) Selenium
7 9 (4.50%) JUnit
8 8 (4.00%) SpecFlow
9 7 (3.50%) Cypress.io
10 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.50%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.50%) Maven
11 5 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (2.00%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (2.00%) JMeter
12 4 (2.00%) Mockito
13 3 (1.50%) Gatling
13 3 (1.50%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.50%) Zephyr
General
1 69 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.00%) Finance
3 40 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.50%) Manufacturing
5 17 (8.50%) Aerospace
6 15 (7.50%) Automotive
7 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.50%) Electronics
9 6 (3.00%) Advertising
9 6 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.00%) Spanish Language
10 5 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.00%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.00%) Law
12 3 (1.50%) Billing
12 3 (1.50%) Military
12 3 (1.50%) Retail
12 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.00%) Legal
13 2 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (19.50%) Senior
2 36 (18.00%) Lead
3 33 (16.50%) Developer
4 18 (9.00%) Analyst
4 18 (9.00%) Software Engineer
5 15 (7.50%) Consultant
6 14 (7.00%) SAP Consultant
7 12 (6.00%) Architect
7 12 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (6.00%) Test Engineer
8 10 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 9 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.00%) QA Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) Test Analyst
11 7 (3.50%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.50%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) SAP PP Consultant
11 7 (3.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.00%) REST
2 23 (11.50%) .NET
3 21 (10.50%) React
4 19 (9.50%) RESTful
5 17 (8.50%) AngularJS
6 15 (7.50%) Middleware
7 14 (7.00%) Playwright
8 13 (6.50%) Kafka
8 13 (6.50%) Spring
9 12 (6.00%) Spring Boot
10 10 (5.00%) JWT
10 10 (5.00%) OAuth
11 9 (4.50%) JSON
11 9 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (4.50%) SOAP
12 8 (4.00%) Node.js
12 8 (4.00%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.00%) XML
13 7 (3.50%) HTML
14 6 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.50%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.50%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.00%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.50%) FPGA
7 5 (2.50%) Verilog
7 5 (2.50%) VHDL
7 5 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.00%) IoT
9 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.00%) Linux
2 6 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.00%) Windows
3 4 (2.00%) Android
3 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.50%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.00%) Unix
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.50%) Agile
2 75 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 63 (31.50%) Test Automation
4 55 (27.50%) DevOps
5 54 (27.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (23.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 45 (22.50%) Software Engineering
8 41 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (17.50%) Migration
10 34 (17.00%) Validation
11 33 (16.50%) Microservices
12 32 (16.00%) Test Strategy
13 29 (14.50%) Mentoring
14 28 (14.00%) System Integration Testing
15 27 (13.50%) Containerisation
16 26 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (12.00%) ERP
18 23 (11.50%) AI
18 23 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
19 22 (11.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (18.50%) Python
2 35 (17.50%) Java
3 27 (13.50%) SQL
4 21 (10.50%) TypeScript
5 20 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.00%) C#
7 14 (7.00%) C
8 12 (6.00%) C++
9 6 (3.00%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.50%) Bash
10 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.50%) Rust
11 3 (1.50%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.50%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.50%) Ruby
11 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) ABAP
12 2 (1.00%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.00%) Degree
2 32 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.00%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.50%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.50%) CCAB
8 4 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.00%) CCA
8 4 (2.00%) CCNA
8 4 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.00%) OSCP
8 4 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.00%) PMP
8 4 (2.00%) RHCE
8 4 (2.00%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.00%) QA
2 19 (9.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.00%) WCAG
4 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (2.00%) SLA
5 3 (1.50%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.50%) ECSS
5 3 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.00%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.00%) GDPR
6 2 (1.00%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) ARP4754
7 1 (0.50%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) DO-160
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) MISRA
7 1 (0.50%) MISRA C
System Software
1 42 (21.00%) Docker
2 12 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.00%) KVM
4 5 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.50%) Firmware
4 5 (2.50%) vSphere
5 4 (2.00%) Squid
5 4 (2.00%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.00%) Terraform
3 13 (6.50%) Ansible
4 7 (3.50%) Puppet
5 4 (2.00%) Grafana
5 4 (2.00%) Kibana
5 4 (2.00%) Packer
5 4 (2.00%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.50%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.50%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.00%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.50%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.50%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (16.00%) SAP
2 23 (11.50%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.50%) Oracle
4 13 (6.50%) VMware
5 6 (3.00%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.00%) Splunk
6 5 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.00%) IBM
7 4 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.50%) Google
8 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.50%) Workday
8 3 (1.50%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.00%) PayPal
9 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.00%) YouTube
10 1 (0.50%) Databricks
10 1 (0.50%) GoCardless
10 1 (0.50%) Perfecto Mobile