Software Testing Jobs in the South East

Software Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 96 48
Rank change year-on-year -44 -48 +44
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 349 435 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.96% 3.16% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.35% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 245 281 547
10th Percentile £34,500 £34,324 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,510 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.80% +1.82% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,794 12,976 19,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.07% 94.36% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,162 7,675 11,832
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,396 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the South East.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the South East 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
Thames Valley -24 153 £51,020 +2.04% 37
Berkshire +11 121 £61,250 - 13
Hampshire -54 84 £45,000 -18.18% 18
Surrey -12 52 £47,500 -26.92% 13
Kent +18 30 £55,000 - 4
Oxfordshire -23 16 £40,000 +6.67% 9
Buckinghamshire -29 16 £49,000 -2.00% 16
West Sussex +15 12 £56,000 -6.67% 7
Middlesex -11 6 £47,750 -38.39%
Sussex - 6 £56,000 -
Isle of Wight +1 5 £25,000 -53.62%
East Sussex -6 1 £50,000 -28.57% 3
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (3.15%) Apache
2 6 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.72%) WinCC
3 4 (1.15%) TWiki
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.86%) Confluence
4 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.57%) JBoss
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) Moodle
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.29%) Totara
Applications
1 27 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.30%) Simulink
2 22 (6.30%) Stateflow
3 12 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (2.01%) CANalyzer
5 4 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.57%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 7 (2.01%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (15.47%) Azure
2 32 (9.17%) AWS
3 31 (8.88%) SaaS
4 24 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (6.59%) GitHub
6 15 (4.30%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (2.01%) IaaS
8 6 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.57%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.57%) Figma
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.29%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.29%) GCP
11 1 (0.29%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.29%) Serverless
11 1 (0.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.30%) Firewall
2 11 (3.15%) J1939
3 9 (2.58%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.01%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.01%) LAN
4 7 (2.01%) Network Security
5 5 (1.43%) RS-232
5 5 (1.43%) RS-485
6 4 (1.15%) 4G
6 4 (1.15%) Wireless
6 4 (1.15%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.86%) Profibus
8 1 (0.29%) GPRS
8 1 (0.29%) MQTT
8 1 (0.29%) RTP
8 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.72%) OLTP
3 7 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (1.43%) Big Data
5 4 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.86%) Couchbase
6 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.86%) Power BI
6 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 56 (16.05%) JIRA
2 49 (14.04%) Selenium
3 40 (11.46%) Jenkins
4 25 (7.16%) GitLab
5 23 (6.59%) Visual Studio
6 18 (5.16%) ClearCase
6 18 (5.16%) Cucumber
6 18 (5.16%) Plastic SCM
7 15 (4.30%) Cypress.io
8 14 (4.01%) ClearQuest
8 14 (4.01%) JUnit
8 14 (4.01%) Robot Framework
9 12 (3.44%) eggPlant
10 11 (3.15%) JMeter
11 10 (2.87%) Git
11 10 (2.87%) Postman
12 9 (2.58%) TestNG
13 8 (2.29%) REST Assured
13 8 (2.29%) WebDriver
14 7 (2.01%) SoapUI
General
1 69 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.18%) Organisational Skills
3 41 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.88%) Aerospace
5 23 (6.59%) Electronics
6 18 (5.16%) Automotive
7 14 (4.01%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.87%) Finance
9 9 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.72%) Marketing
11 5 (1.43%) Aviation
11 5 (1.43%) Retail
11 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.57%) Military
12 2 (0.57%) Police
12 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (18.05%) Software Engineer
2 49 (14.04%) Senior
3 43 (12.32%) Test Engineer
4 40 (11.46%) Analyst
5 33 (9.46%) Developer
6 28 (8.02%) Tester
7 27 (7.74%) Test Analyst
8 26 (7.45%) Consultant
8 26 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (7.16%) Architect
9 25 (7.16%) Software Architect
10 23 (6.59%) Lead
11 16 (4.58%) Software Test Engineer
12 15 (4.30%) QA Analyst
13 13 (3.72%) ERP Consultant
13 13 (3.72%) Implementation Consultant
13 13 (3.72%) Oracle Developer
13 13 (3.72%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 13 (3.72%) Software Consultant
13 13 (3.72%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.17%) XML
2 30 (8.60%) HTML
3 20 (5.73%) .NET
4 19 (5.44%) SOAP
5 15 (4.30%) Web Services
6 10 (2.87%) REST
7 9 (2.58%) WireMock
8 8 (2.29%) Playwright
9 7 (2.01%) Apache Commons
9 7 (2.01%) Guava
9 7 (2.01%) Java Concurrency
10 6 (1.72%) JSON
10 6 (1.72%) OpenMP
10 6 (1.72%) React
10 6 (1.72%) WPF
11 5 (1.43%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.43%) Node.js
11 5 (1.43%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.15%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.75%) Algorithms
2 20 (5.73%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.15%) Life Science
7 9 (2.58%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.29%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (2.01%) Client/Server
9 7 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.72%) CUDA
10 6 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.72%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.72%) SCADA
11 5 (1.43%) EPoS
11 5 (1.43%) Robotics
12 4 (1.15%) Device Driver
12 4 (1.15%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 70 (20.06%) Linux
2 43 (12.32%) Windows
3 24 (6.88%) Unix
4 9 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.58%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (2.01%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.01%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.57%) CentOS
6 2 (0.57%) Debian
6 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (39.26%) Agile
2 111 (31.81%) Test Automation
3 99 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (24.07%) Software Engineering
5 76 (21.78%) Computer Science
6 65 (18.62%) DevOps
7 52 (14.90%) CI/CD
8 51 (14.61%) Physics
9 42 (12.03%) Mathematics
10 37 (10.60%) Containerisation
10 37 (10.60%) SDET
11 34 (9.74%) Test Strategy
12 32 (9.17%) Configuration Management
13 31 (8.88%) Open Source
14 30 (8.60%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (8.31%) Customer Service
16 28 (8.02%) SDLC
17 26 (7.45%) Test Scripting
18 24 (6.88%) Scrum
18 24 (6.88%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (32.09%) Python
2 69 (19.77%) SQL
3 68 (19.48%) C
4 59 (16.91%) C#
5 50 (14.33%) C++
6 46 (13.18%) Bash
7 40 (11.46%) Fortran
8 39 (11.17%) JavaScript
9 30 (8.60%) Embedded C
10 29 (8.31%) Java
11 23 (6.59%) MATLAB
12 17 (4.87%) Perl
13 15 (4.30%) PL/SQL
14 11 (3.15%) Groovy
15 9 (2.58%) TypeScript
16 8 (2.29%) Go
17 6 (1.72%) Ruby
18 4 (1.15%) Embedded C++
18 4 (1.15%) PHP
19 3 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 137 (39.26%) Degree
2 89 (25.50%) Security Cleared
3 37 (10.60%) ISTQB
4 32 (9.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (8.60%) SC Cleared
6 26 (7.45%) Master's Degree
7 23 (6.59%) PhD
8 17 (4.87%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.44%) ISEB
10 11 (3.15%) HND
11 8 (2.29%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.57%) CBAP
13 2 (0.57%) IIBA
13 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.29%) CCNA
14 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.29%) HNC
14 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (21.49%) QA
2 18 (5.16%) MISRA
3 12 (3.44%) ISO 26262
4 11 (3.15%) Automotive SPICE
4 11 (3.15%) AUTOSAR
5 9 (2.58%) SLA
6 5 (1.43%) GDPR
7 2 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.29%) JTAG
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (8.88%) Docker
2 22 (6.30%) Firmware
3 10 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.01%) Terraform
3 7 (2.01%) SCCM
4 5 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (1.15%) Ansible
6 3 (0.86%) Grafana
6 3 (0.86%) Wonderware InTouch
7 2 (0.57%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.57%) Kibana
7 2 (0.57%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.74%) Oracle
3 18 (5.16%) IBM
3 18 (5.16%) Lauterbach
4 13 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.44%) HP
6 9 (2.58%) SAP
7 8 (2.29%) Sage
8 7 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.72%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.72%) Epicor
9 6 (1.72%) Rockwell
9 6 (1.72%) Siemens
10 4 (1.15%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.15%) Facebook
10 4 (1.15%) Instagram
11 3 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.86%) Databricks
11 3 (0.86%) Google
11 3 (0.86%) Wonderware