Senior Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £49,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 696 633 786
Rank change year-on-year -63 +153 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 84 95 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 53 46 59
10th Percentile £40,162 £43,248 £38,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,688 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £59,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% +20.41% -10.91%
75th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £59,589
90th Percentile £60,741 £85,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
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 Senior Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 -21 31 £47,500 -32.14% 8
East of England -4 15 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands -7 10 £42,500 -
Midlands -35 10 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North of England -3 8 £57,965 -7.26% 7
Wales +18 7 £40,404 -15.83%
Scotland -72 7 £45,000 -25.00% 1
South West -51 6 £52,500 +10.53% 1
Yorkshire +56 3 £57,965 -18.65% 2
North West -24 3 £57,965 -35.60% 2
North East -20 2 £57,965 +3.97% 3
Senior Test Engineer
UK

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (26.19%) Test Automation
2 20 (23.81%) Agile
3 17 (20.24%) Manufacturing
4 15 (17.86%) Non-Functional Testing
4 15 (17.86%) Software Testing
5 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 11 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (13.10%) Electronics
7 10 (11.90%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.90%) Regression Testing
8 9 (10.71%) SQL
8 9 (10.71%) Military
9 8 (9.52%) Scrum
9 8 (9.52%) QA
9 8 (9.52%) Azure
9 8 (9.52%) AWS
9 8 (9.52%) DevOps
10 7 (8.33%) Functional Testing
10 7 (8.33%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.33%) Coaching
10 7 (8.33%) Social Skills
10 7 (8.33%) CI/CD
10 7 (8.33%) Test Scripting
10 7 (8.33%) Test Strategy
10 7 (8.33%) JIRA
10 7 (8.33%) Degree
10 7 (8.33%) LabVIEW
10 7 (8.33%) C#
10 7 (8.33%) Python
10 7 (8.33%) Microsoft

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.52%) AWS
1 8 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (2.38%) GCP
2 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.19%) Firebase
3 1 (1.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) Bluetooth
1 4 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (4.76%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 6 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.95%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.33%) JIRA
1 7 (8.33%) LabVIEW
2 6 (7.14%) Git
2 6 (7.14%) Postman
3 5 (5.95%) MSTest
3 5 (5.95%) Selenium
3 5 (5.95%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.19%) Appium
5 1 (1.19%) GitLab
5 1 (1.19%) JMeter
5 1 (1.19%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.19%) TestRail
5 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (20.24%) Manufacturing
2 11 (13.10%) Electronics
3 9 (10.71%) Military
4 7 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (7.14%) Automotive
6 5 (5.95%) Retail
7 4 (4.76%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.57%) Games
8 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Aviation
9 2 (2.38%) Finance
10 1 (1.19%) Legal
10 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) JSON
1 5 (5.95%) REST
1 5 (5.95%) SOAP
1 5 (5.95%) XML
2 2 (2.38%) Gherkin
2 2 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.38%) Playwright
3 1 (1.19%) .NET
3 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.19%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.19%) pytest
3 1 (1.19%) Swagger
3 1 (1.19%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (1.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
1 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.76%) IoT
3 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) Animation
4 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.19%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Android
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.19%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.19%) Test Automation
2 20 (23.81%) Agile
3 15 (17.86%) Non-Functional Testing
3 15 (17.86%) Software Testing
4 11 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (11.90%) Regression Testing
5 10 (11.90%) Software Engineering
6 8 (9.52%) DevOps
6 8 (9.52%) Scrum
7 7 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 7 (8.33%) Coaching
7 7 (8.33%) Functional Testing
7 7 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 7 (8.33%) Test Scripting
7 7 (8.33%) Test Strategy
8 6 (7.14%) Agile Testing
8 6 (7.14%) API Testing
8 6 (7.14%) Defect Management
8 6 (7.14%) Test Management
8 6 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) SQL
2 7 (8.33%) C#
2 7 (8.33%) Python
3 5 (5.95%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.76%) C
4 4 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (1.19%) C++
5 1 (1.19%) Groovy
5 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.33%) Degree
3 5 (5.95%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) HNC
6 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) QA
2 6 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.57%) Google
3 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.19%) EMC