Agile Testing Jobs

Agile Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Agile Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Testing over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 307 1042
Rank change year-on-year -580 +735 -173
Permanent jobs citing Agile Testing 35 1,093 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 1.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 1.23% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 104
10th Percentile £34,100 £42,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,387 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £60,741 £89,852 £74,686
90th Percentile £61,269 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £44,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -23.48% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile Testing over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -531 34 £42,500 -41.38% 3
UK excluding London -532 29 £41,250 -6.25% 2
Work from Home +64 20 £41,250 -12.23% 1
South East -33 12 - - 2
North of England -262 9 £57,965 -
West Midlands -153 6 £40,000 -29.62%
Midlands -210 6 £40,000 -29.62%
Yorkshire -67 5 £57,965 -
London -110 5 £65,000 -13.97% 1
North West -206 3 £57,965 -
South West -52 2 £41,250 -
North East - 1 £57,965 -

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) TestRail
2 5 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 4 (11.43%) JMeter
3 4 (11.43%) JUnit
3 4 (11.43%) Postman
4 3 (8.57%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
3 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.71%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Analyst
1 12 (34.29%) Test Analyst
2 10 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 9 (25.71%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
4 7 (20.00%) QA Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Lead
7 3 (8.57%) Agile Tester
7 3 (8.57%) QA Tester
7 3 (8.57%) Tester
8 2 (5.71%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Test Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Head of QA
9 1 (2.86%) Market Analyst
9 1 (2.86%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Spring
1 5 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Agile
2 34 (97.14%) Test Automation
3 15 (42.86%) Test Management
3 15 (42.86%) Test Planning
4 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (34.29%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (34.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 12 (34.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 12 (34.29%) Test Assurance
6 11 (31.43%) Test Strategy
7 10 (28.57%) Software Testing
8 9 (25.71%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (25.71%) Requirements Analysis
8 9 (25.71%) Requirements Gathering
8 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
9 8 (22.86%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (22.86%) Defect Management
10 7 (20.00%) Coaching
10 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 7 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 14 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
3 10 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (62.86%) QA
2 7 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Firmware