Senior Test Engineer Jobs

Senior Test Engineer
UK

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in the UK is £49,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 820 1057
Rank change year-on-year 0 +237 -285
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 87 127 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 59 67 146
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,625 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £57,197 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% -4.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £60,741 £91,250 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.26% +16.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London -55 77 £46,250 -20.26% 23
England -3 66 £50,000 -10.31% 23
Work from Home +13 29 £57,965 -3.39% 6
South East -8 26 £46,250 -33.93% 11
East of England +2 13 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -10 10 £42,500 -
Midlands -10 10 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North of England +19 8 £57,965 -7.26% 3
Wales +14 7 £40,404 -15.83% 1
Scotland -71 7 £45,000 -25.00% 1
South West -38 6 £52,500 +10.53% 1
London +99 4 £67,500 +22.73% 2
Yorkshire +53 3 £57,965 -18.65% 1
North West -5 3 £57,965 -35.60% 2
North East -13 2 £57,965 +3.97%

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (32.18%) Test Automation
2 25 (28.74%) Agile
3 18 (20.69%) Non-Functional Testing
4 17 (19.54%) Manufacturing
5 16 (18.39%) Software Testing
6 13 (14.94%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (14.94%) Regression Testing
7 12 (13.79%) AWS
8 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
8 11 (12.64%) QA
8 11 (12.64%) Electronics
8 11 (12.64%) SQL
9 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
9 10 (11.49%) DevOps
10 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
10 9 (10.34%) Coaching
10 9 (10.34%) Accessibility
10 9 (10.34%) Postman
10 9 (10.34%) Scrum
11 8 (9.20%) Python
11 8 (9.20%) JIRA
11 8 (9.20%) Azure
11 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
11 8 (9.20%) CI/CD
11 8 (9.20%) Functional Testing
11 8 (9.20%) Test Strategy
12 7 (8.05%) SoapUI
12 7 (8.05%) API Testing
12 7 (8.05%) Git
12 7 (8.05%) Test Scripting

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.79%) AWS
2 8 (9.20%) Azure
3 3 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) GCP
4 2 (2.30%) SaaS
5 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.15%) Firebase
5 1 (1.15%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Bluetooth
1 4 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (4.60%) ZigBee
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Relational Database
1 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.30%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.15%) MySQL
4 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Postman
2 8 (9.20%) JIRA
3 7 (8.05%) Git
3 7 (8.05%) LabVIEW
3 7 (8.05%) Selenium
3 7 (8.05%) SoapUI
4 5 (5.75%) MSTest
5 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.45%) JMeter
6 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.15%) Appium
7 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.15%) GitLab
7 1 (1.15%) mountebank
7 1 (1.15%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.15%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.15%) Subversion
7 1 (1.15%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (19.54%) Manufacturing
2 11 (12.64%) Electronics
3 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Military
5 5 (5.75%) Automotive
6 4 (4.60%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
7 3 (3.45%) Games
7 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.30%) Finance
8 2 (2.30%) Welsh Language
9 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Aviation
9 1 (1.15%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) SOAP
1 7 (8.05%) XML
2 6 (6.90%) REST
3 5 (5.75%) JSON
4 3 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (3.45%) pytest
5 2 (2.30%) OAuth
5 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.30%) Playwright
6 1 (1.15%) .NET
6 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.15%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.15%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.15%) Kafka
6 1 (1.15%) Laravel
6 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.15%) Swagger
6 1 (1.15%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.15%) WireMock
6 1 (1.15%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Management Information System
1 5 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.60%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (4.60%) IoT
2 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.15%) Animation
3 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.15%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.18%) Test Automation
2 25 (28.74%) Agile
3 18 (20.69%) Non-Functional Testing
4 16 (18.39%) Software Testing
5 13 (14.94%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (14.94%) Regression Testing
6 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.49%) DevOps
8 9 (10.34%) Coaching
8 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
8 9 (10.34%) Scrum
9 8 (9.20%) CI/CD
9 8 (9.20%) Functional Testing
9 8 (9.20%) Test Strategy
10 7 (8.05%) API Testing
10 7 (8.05%) Security Testing
10 7 (8.05%) Test Scripting
11 6 (6.90%) Computer Science
11 6 (6.90%) Performance Testing
11 6 (6.90%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.64%) SQL
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) C#
4 5 (5.75%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.60%) C
5 4 (4.60%) Java
6 1 (1.15%) Go
6 1 (1.15%) Groovy
6 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.15%) PHP
6 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) Degree
2 7 (8.05%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.30%) GIAC
4 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) HNC
5 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) QA
2 9 (10.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.45%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) Google
2 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle
4 1 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.15%) EMC