Software Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 156 80 78
Rank change year-on-year -76 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1,363 2,406 2,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.79% 4.26% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 4.46% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 939 758 1,395
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £84,125 £73,750
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the UK excluding London 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% 61
Midlands -87 227 £45,000 -2.70% 70
North West -94 175 £55,000 +10.00% 37
East of England -39 144 £55,000 -15.38% 50
South West -71 138 £50,000 - 52
West Midlands -89 137 £45,000 -5.26% 33
Scotland -70 136 £45,000 -10.00% 35
Yorkshire -30 111 £55,000 +10.00% 16
East Midlands -56 90 £49,329 +12.11% 38
Wales +32 48 £47,500 +2.79% 5
North East -9 20 £55,000 -1.79% 8
Northern Ireland +16 15 £37,500 -6.25% 6
Software Testing
UK

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 47 (3.45%) Confluence
2 22 (1.61%) IIS
3 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.81%) Apache
6 8 (0.59%) WinCC
7 7 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.29%) TWiki
10 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
12 1 (0.073%) CMS
12 1 (0.073%) Moodle
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.073%) Totara
12 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 65 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.35%) Simulink
3 23 (1.69%) Stateflow
4 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.51%) CANalyzer
6 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.15%) Trello
9 1 (0.073%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) BPCS
1 7 (0.51%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.15%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.073%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.073%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 270 (19.81%) Azure
2 200 (14.67%) AWS
3 59 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (4.26%) SaaS
5 43 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
6 38 (2.79%) GitHub
6 38 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (1.83%) GCP
8 19 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (0.73%) Google Play
10 9 (0.66%) BlazeMeter
11 8 (0.59%) Slack
12 7 (0.51%) IaaS
12 7 (0.51%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.44%) Entra ID
14 5 (0.37%) BrowserStack
15 4 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (0.29%) Power Automate
15 4 (0.29%) Serverless
16 3 (0.22%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.15%) TCP/IP
2 31 (2.27%) Wireless
3 27 (1.98%) Firewall
4 25 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.61%) RS-485
6 21 (1.54%) Internet
6 21 (1.54%) WAN
7 20 (1.47%) Ethernet
8 18 (1.32%) 4G
9 16 (1.17%) Network Security
10 14 (1.03%) LAN
10 14 (1.03%) MQTT
10 14 (1.03%) RS-232
11 13 (0.95%) 3G
12 11 (0.81%) J1939
13 9 (0.66%) Modbus
14 6 (0.44%) DVB
14 6 (0.44%) Wireshark
15 5 (0.37%) Profibus
15 5 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 70 (5.14%) Geospatial Data
3 36 (2.64%) NoSQL
4 21 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.95%) Big Data
6 13 (0.95%) MySQL
6 13 (0.95%) OLTP
7 12 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.44%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.37%) Power BI
12 4 (0.29%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.29%) Flink
12 4 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.22%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.15%) Redis
14 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 175 (12.84%) JIRA
2 109 (8.00%) Selenium
3 87 (6.38%) Git
4 72 (5.28%) Jenkins
5 63 (4.62%) Visual Studio
6 60 (4.40%) Cypress.io
7 57 (4.18%) Postman
8 53 (3.89%) Cucumber
9 47 (3.45%) GitLab
10 44 (3.23%) JMeter
11 37 (2.71%) JUnit
12 32 (2.35%) Appium
13 27 (1.98%) Bitbucket
14 25 (1.83%) LabVIEW
15 21 (1.54%) SoapUI
16 18 (1.32%) ClearCase
16 18 (1.32%) Plastic SCM
17 16 (1.17%) MSTest
18 14 (1.03%) Robot Framework
18 14 (1.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 351 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 186 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (8.44%) Finance
4 112 (8.22%) Electronics
5 88 (6.46%) Retail
6 78 (5.72%) Legal
7 60 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 58 (4.26%) Public Sector
9 55 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (3.45%) Automotive
12 39 (2.86%) Aerospace
13 31 (2.27%) Marketing
14 28 (2.05%) Law
15 23 (1.69%) Banking
16 20 (1.47%) Games
17 17 (1.25%) Military
18 16 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
19 14 (1.03%) Telecoms
20 13 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (14.09%) Software Engineer
2 190 (13.94%) Senior
3 172 (12.62%) Developer
4 141 (10.34%) Analyst
5 137 (10.05%) Test Engineer
6 128 (9.39%) Tester
7 121 (8.88%) Lead
8 94 (6.90%) Architect
9 91 (6.68%) Software Architect
10 76 (5.58%) Software Tester
11 70 (5.14%) Geospatial Architect
12 67 (4.92%) Software Test Engineer
13 64 (4.70%) QA Engineer
14 60 (4.40%) Business Analyst
15 57 (4.18%) Embedded Engineer
15 57 (4.18%) Software Developer
15 57 (4.18%) Systems Engineer
16 53 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
17 48 (3.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
18 46 (3.37%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (8.95%) .NET
2 59 (4.33%) HTML
3 53 (3.89%) REST
4 48 (3.52%) Web Services
5 45 (3.30%) XML
6 40 (2.93%) Playwright
7 34 (2.49%) SOAP
8 32 (2.35%) React
9 29 (2.13%) JSON
10 28 (2.05%) .NET Framework
11 25 (1.83%) Spring
12 23 (1.69%) CSS
12 23 (1.69%) RESTful
13 22 (1.61%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.39%) .NET Core
15 16 (1.17%) Kafka
16 15 (1.10%) ASP.NET
17 13 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
17 13 (0.95%) WinForms
18 12 (0.88%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 76 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
1 76 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
2 67 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.40%) Algorithms
4 54 (3.96%) Mobile App
5 42 (3.08%) IoT
6 34 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 29 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
8 28 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
10 24 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 20 (1.47%) Driving Licence
12 18 (1.32%) Clustering
12 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (0.95%) FPGA
14 13 (0.95%) Robotics
15 11 (0.81%) Client/Server
15 11 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 158 (11.59%) Linux
2 130 (9.54%) Windows
3 40 (2.93%) Unix
4 34 (2.49%) Android
5 23 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
6 20 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 15 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.95%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.51%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.44%) Debian
12 5 (0.37%) Windows Mobile
13 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.15%) CentOS
15 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.15%) Solaris
15 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (37.56%) Agile
2 446 (32.72%) Test Automation
3 324 (23.77%) Software Engineering
4 291 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
5 246 (18.05%) DevOps
6 200 (14.67%) Computer Science
7 190 (13.94%) SDLC
8 173 (12.69%) CI/CD
9 136 (9.98%) Mentoring
10 130 (9.54%) Coaching
11 114 (8.36%) Regression Testing
12 110 (8.07%) Test Strategy
13 104 (7.63%) Migration
14 101 (7.41%) Scrum
14 101 (7.41%) Test Scripting
15 96 (7.04%) TDD
16 92 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 88 (6.46%) Code Quality
17 88 (6.46%) Software Architecture
18 84 (6.16%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 245 (17.98%) Python
2 220 (16.14%) SQL
3 208 (15.26%) C#
4 168 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 167 (12.25%) C
6 157 (11.52%) Java
7 100 (7.34%) C++
8 53 (3.89%) Bash
9 50 (3.67%) Embedded C
10 43 (3.15%) MATLAB
11 40 (2.93%) Fortran
12 39 (2.86%) TypeScript
13 23 (1.69%) PowerShell
14 19 (1.39%) VB.NET
15 18 (1.32%) Perl
16 16 (1.17%) Groovy
16 16 (1.17%) PL/SQL
17 15 (1.10%) Go
18 13 (0.95%) PHP
19 12 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 418 (30.67%) Degree
2 173 (12.69%) Security Cleared
3 98 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 86 (6.31%) ISTQB
5 57 (4.18%) SC Cleared
6 35 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.20%) PhD
8 29 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.25%) HND
10 17 (1.25%) ISEB
11 15 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.95%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.73%) IIBA
14 7 (0.51%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.44%) CSPO
16 5 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
16 5 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.29%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (23.62%) QA
2 32 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 28 (2.05%) GDPR
3 28 (2.05%) WCAG
4 24 (1.76%) MISRA
5 15 (1.10%) ISO 26262
5 15 (1.10%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.95%) Automotive SPICE
6 13 (0.95%) AUTOSAR
7 12 (0.88%) SLA
8 8 (0.59%) PSD2
9 7 (0.51%) IEC 61508
9 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 4 (0.29%) DICOM
11 4 (0.29%) DO-254
11 4 (0.29%) HL7
11 4 (0.29%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.22%) Def Stans
System Software
1 61 (4.48%) Firmware
2 52 (3.82%) Docker
3 21 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.29%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.073%) NFS
11 1 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 47 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.17%) Terraform
3 15 (1.10%) SCCM
4 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (0.37%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) Grafana
7 3 (0.22%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.22%) Kibana
7 3 (0.22%) Wonderware InTouch
8 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.073%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.073%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.073%) Puppet
9 1 (0.073%) TeamSite
9 1 (0.073%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 221 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 43 (3.15%) IBM
3 39 (2.86%) Oracle
4 34 (2.49%) VMware
5 32 (2.35%) Google
6 20 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.32%) Lauterbach
7 18 (1.32%) SAP
8 14 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.95%) HP
9 13 (0.95%) Rockwell
10 12 (0.88%) Siemens
11 11 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.73%) Citrix
13 9 (0.66%) TOWER Software
14 8 (0.59%) BT
14 8 (0.59%) Duck Creek
14 8 (0.59%) Sage
15 7 (0.51%) MuleSoft
15 7 (0.51%) Splunk