Software Testing Jobs in England

Software Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 89 102
Rank change year-on-year -86 +13 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1,459 3,030 4,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.60% 3.60% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 3.77% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 1,088 1,990
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £42,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,510 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -10.71% +4.19% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in England.

Salary trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
South East -44 349 £49,000 -10.91% 92
North of England -84 306 £55,000 +10.00% 62
London -87 285 £68,750 +1.85% 80
Midlands -87 227 £45,000 -2.70% 71
North West -94 175 £55,000 +10.00% 38
East of England -39 144 £55,000 -15.38% 51
South West -71 138 £50,000 - 52
West Midlands -89 137 £45,000 -5.26% 33
Yorkshire -30 111 £55,000 +10.00% 16
East Midlands -56 90 £49,329 +12.11% 39
North East -9 20 £55,000 -1.79% 8
Software Testing
UK

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (2.47%) Confluence
2 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.17%) Apache
4 13 (0.89%) IIS
5 9 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.62%) WinCC
6 6 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.27%) TWiki
8 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.069%) Moodle
10 1 (0.069%) nginx
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.069%) Totara
10 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 58 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.19%) Simulink
3 23 (1.58%) Stateflow
4 22 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 11 (0.75%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.55%) Revit
7 7 (0.48%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.27%) Trello
10 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) BPCS
1 7 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.14%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.069%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 268 (18.37%) Azure
2 195 (13.37%) AWS
3 74 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (3.70%) SaaS
5 46 (3.15%) GitHub
6 39 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
8 35 (2.40%) GCP
9 21 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (1.10%) Power Platform
11 12 (0.82%) Serverless
12 10 (0.69%) Google Play
13 9 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (0.55%) Slack
15 7 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 7 (0.48%) IaaS
16 6 (0.41%) Entra ID
16 6 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (0.27%) Amazon ECS
17 4 (0.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.08%) TCP/IP
2 32 (2.19%) Wireless
3 24 (1.64%) Firewall
4 23 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.51%) RS-485
6 19 (1.30%) Ethernet
7 18 (1.23%) 4G
7 18 (1.23%) Internet
8 15 (1.03%) MQTT
9 14 (0.96%) RS-232
10 13 (0.89%) 3G
10 13 (0.89%) Network Security
11 11 (0.75%) J1939
11 11 (0.75%) LAN
12 9 (0.62%) WAN
13 8 (0.55%) Modbus
14 6 (0.41%) DVB
14 6 (0.41%) HTTP
14 6 (0.41%) Wireshark
15 5 (0.34%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (7.33%) SQL Server
2 49 (3.36%) Geospatial Data
3 40 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 25 (1.71%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.17%) Redis
6 15 (1.03%) Big Data
6 15 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.89%) DynamoDB
8 13 (0.89%) OLTP
8 13 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (0.82%) MySQL
10 11 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (0.69%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.55%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.48%) Power BI
14 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.41%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.41%) Flink
Development Applications
1 172 (11.79%) JIRA
2 141 (9.66%) Selenium
3 87 (5.96%) Git
4 78 (5.35%) Jenkins
5 59 (4.04%) JUnit
6 52 (3.56%) Visual Studio
7 51 (3.50%) Cucumber
8 48 (3.29%) Postman
9 44 (3.02%) Cypress.io
9 44 (3.02%) GitLab
10 36 (2.47%) JMeter
11 32 (2.19%) WebDriver
12 29 (1.99%) Appium
13 25 (1.71%) LabVIEW
14 22 (1.51%) SpecFlow
15 19 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
16 18 (1.23%) ClearCase
16 18 (1.23%) Plastic SCM
16 18 (1.23%) SoapUI
16 18 (1.23%) TestNG
General
1 336 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 197 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
3 145 (9.94%) Finance
4 127 (8.70%) Electronics
5 104 (7.13%) Legal
6 92 (6.31%) Retail
7 62 (4.25%) Manufacturing
8 58 (3.98%) Public Sector
9 54 (3.70%) Automotive
9 54 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 50 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 40 (2.74%) Aerospace
12 33 (2.26%) Banking
13 29 (1.99%) Marketing
14 27 (1.85%) Law
15 17 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.10%) Back Office
16 16 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.03%) Military
18 14 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 247 (16.93%) Senior
2 223 (15.28%) Developer
3 192 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 191 (13.09%) Analyst
5 137 (9.39%) Lead
6 115 (7.88%) Test Engineer
7 114 (7.81%) Tester
8 72 (4.93%) Test Analyst
9 71 (4.87%) Architect
10 70 (4.80%) Software Tester
11 69 (4.73%) Software Architect
12 68 (4.66%) Software Developer
13 65 (4.46%) Senior Developer
14 63 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
15 61 (4.18%) Business Analyst
16 58 (3.98%) Software Test Engineer
17 55 (3.77%) Embedded Engineer
18 50 (3.43%) Systems Engineer
19 49 (3.36%) Geospatial Architect
20 47 (3.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (10.56%) .NET
2 79 (5.41%) HTML
3 76 (5.21%) REST
4 56 (3.84%) React
5 54 (3.70%) Web Services
6 48 (3.29%) XML
7 42 (2.88%) JSON
8 39 (2.67%) .NET Framework
8 39 (2.67%) CSS
9 36 (2.47%) SOAP
10 34 (2.33%) RESTful
11 32 (2.19%) Playwright
12 26 (1.78%) Kafka
13 25 (1.71%) Node.js
14 24 (1.64%) .NET Core
15 20 (1.37%) Spring
16 19 (1.30%) Spring Boot
17 17 (1.17%) ASP.NET
18 16 (1.10%) GraphQL
18 16 (1.10%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.89%) Product Ownership
2 85 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
3 67 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 65 (4.46%) Algorithms
5 56 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (3.29%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.47%) IoT
8 32 (2.19%) Embedded Systems
9 26 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (1.44%) Video\Live Streaming
12 20 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
12 20 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.17%) Driving Licence
14 16 (1.10%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.03%) FPGA
15 15 (1.03%) Robotics
16 14 (0.96%) Client/Server
17 11 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 182 (12.47%) Linux
2 141 (9.66%) Windows
3 36 (2.47%) Android
3 36 (2.47%) Unix
4 24 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
5 21 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
8 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (0.55%) Debian
9 8 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.48%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.34%) Windows Mobile
12 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.21%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.14%) CentOS
14 2 (0.14%) VMS
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (38.45%) Agile
2 449 (30.77%) Test Automation
3 331 (22.69%) Software Engineering
4 315 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (18.71%) DevOps
6 231 (15.83%) Computer Science
7 184 (12.61%) CI/CD
8 183 (12.54%) SDLC
9 152 (10.42%) Mentoring
10 136 (9.32%) Test Strategy
11 134 (9.18%) Coaching
12 114 (7.81%) Scrum
13 108 (7.40%) Functional Testing
13 108 (7.40%) Regression Testing
14 107 (7.33%) Test Scripting
15 95 (6.51%) SDET
16 93 (6.37%) Project Management
17 90 (6.17%) Process Improvement
18 88 (6.03%) TDD
18 88 (6.03%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 257 (17.61%) Python
2 241 (16.52%) C#
3 212 (14.53%) SQL
4 181 (12.41%) Java
5 165 (11.31%) C
6 159 (10.90%) JavaScript
7 108 (7.40%) C++
8 72 (4.93%) TypeScript
9 53 (3.63%) Bash
10 46 (3.15%) Embedded C
11 43 (2.95%) MATLAB
12 40 (2.74%) Fortran
13 26 (1.78%) PowerShell
14 23 (1.58%) Perl
15 22 (1.51%) Groovy
16 19 (1.30%) VB.NET
17 18 (1.23%) Go
18 16 (1.10%) PL/SQL
19 14 (0.96%) Kotlin
20 12 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 473 (32.42%) Degree
2 196 (13.43%) Security Cleared
3 118 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 94 (6.44%) ISTQB
5 81 (5.55%) SC Cleared
6 35 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 32 (2.19%) PhD
9 30 (2.06%) ISEB
10 23 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.17%) HND
12 15 (1.03%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.62%) IIBA
14 7 (0.48%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.41%) CSPO
15 6 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
16 5 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.27%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (19.74%) QA
2 50 (3.43%) GDPR
3 36 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.92%) WCAG
5 23 (1.58%) MISRA
6 15 (1.03%) ISO 26262
7 14 (0.96%) SLA
8 13 (0.89%) Automotive SPICE
8 13 (0.89%) AUTOSAR
9 8 (0.55%) PSD2
10 7 (0.48%) IEC 61508
10 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 6 (0.41%) Def Stans
11 6 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 5 (0.34%) ITGC
13 4 (0.27%) DO-254
13 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 75 (5.14%) Firmware
2 73 (5.00%) Docker
3 19 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 18 (1.23%) Active Directory
5 12 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.62%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.27%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.14%) NFS
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 75 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.40%) Terraform
3 15 (1.03%) SCCM
4 13 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.75%) Ansible
6 8 (0.55%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.48%) Puppet
8 6 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (0.34%) Grafana
9 5 (0.34%) Salt
10 4 (0.27%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.27%) Wonderware InTouch
11 3 (0.21%) Kibana
12 2 (0.14%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.069%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 230 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 48 (3.29%) Google
3 46 (3.15%) Oracle
4 44 (3.02%) IBM
5 25 (1.71%) VMware
6 20 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.23%) Lauterbach
7 18 (1.23%) SAP
8 16 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 13 (0.89%) HP
9 13 (0.89%) Rockwell
10 12 (0.82%) Siemens
11 11 (0.75%) Adobe
11 11 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.69%) Citrix
13 8 (0.55%) BT
13 8 (0.55%) Duck Creek
13 8 (0.55%) Sage
13 8 (0.55%) Splunk