Test Engineer
UK

The median Test Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 484 479
Rank change year-on-year -36 -5 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 416 604 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.61% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.66% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 247 409 785
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,164 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £53,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 -3 368 £45,000 -10.00% 209
England -36 335 £45,000 -18.18% 219
Work from Home -83 114 £48,500 -11.82% 66
South East +7 107 £45,000 - 66
South West -23 59 £52,500 +1.94% 26
Midlands -24 58 £42,500 -22.73% 31
East of England +46 56 £45,000 -30.77% 41
West Midlands -8 47 £42,500 -22.73% 25
North of England +5 35 £42,500 -15.00% 30
Scotland -68 32 £45,000 -6.25% 18
London -63 21 £65,000 +13.04% 26
Yorkshire +54 19 £38,750 -8.94% 9
Wales +16 16 £42,500 +6.25% 5
North West +4 14 £45,000 -10.00% 21
East Midlands -13 11 £37,500 -21.05% 6
Northern Ireland +33 4 - - 1
North East -9 2 £57,965 +0.81%
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 211 (50.72%) Test Automation
2 152 (36.54%) Software Testing
3 136 (32.69%) Agile
4 106 (25.48%) Degree
5 80 (19.23%) Python
6 78 (18.75%) Social Skills
7 76 (18.27%) QA
8 69 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (15.63%) Test Scripting
10 61 (14.66%) Regression Testing
11 55 (13.22%) JIRA
12 54 (12.98%) Selenium
12 54 (12.98%) Electronics
12 54 (12.98%) DevOps
13 53 (12.74%) Security Cleared
14 51 (12.26%) Microsoft
15 50 (12.02%) Manual Testing
16 49 (11.78%) CI/CD
17 48 (11.54%) C#
18 47 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
18 47 (11.30%) Test Strategy
19 46 (11.06%) Computer Science
19 46 (11.06%) ISTQB
19 46 (11.06%) Software Engineering
20 45 (10.82%) Azure
20 45 (10.82%) Windows
21 44 (10.58%) SQL
22 42 (10.10%) API Testing
23 40 (9.62%) Git
24 39 (9.38%) Continuous Integration

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 28 (6.73%) Confluence
2 2 (0.48%) MTS
3 1 (0.24%) Apache
3 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.20%) Simulink
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 45 (10.82%) Azure
2 34 (8.17%) AWS
3 22 (5.29%) GitHub
4 16 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.16%) GCP
5 9 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (1.68%) SaaS
7 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.20%) Datadog
8 5 (1.20%) PaaS
9 4 (0.96%) Cloud Composer
9 4 (0.96%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (0.96%) dbt
9 4 (0.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (0.96%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.48%) Serverless
11 1 (0.24%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.81%) Wireless
2 18 (4.33%) Bluetooth
2 18 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.64%) 5G
4 10 (2.40%) GSM
4 10 (2.40%) ISDN
4 10 (2.40%) LTE
4 10 (2.40%) PSTN
4 10 (2.40%) UMTS
5 7 (1.68%) Ethernet
6 6 (1.44%) Internet
7 5 (1.20%) Network Security
7 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.96%) FlexRay
8 4 (0.96%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.96%) ZigBee
9 2 (0.48%) DHCP
9 2 (0.48%) DNS
10 1 (0.24%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.16%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.20%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.20%) Redis
5 4 (0.96%) InfluxDB
5 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.96%) Tableau
6 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.48%) MySQL
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.24%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (13.22%) JIRA
2 54 (12.98%) Selenium
3 40 (9.62%) Git
4 30 (7.21%) Postman
5 29 (6.97%) LabVIEW
6 20 (4.81%) Cypress.io
7 19 (4.57%) Jenkins
8 18 (4.33%) Appium
8 18 (4.33%) JMeter
9 17 (4.09%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.09%) MSTest
10 15 (3.61%) Bitbucket
11 14 (3.37%) SpecFlow
12 13 (3.13%) Visual Studio
13 11 (2.64%) SoapUI
13 11 (2.64%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (2.64%) UI Automator
14 10 (2.40%) GitLab
14 10 (2.40%) JBehave
15 9 (2.16%) WebDriver
General
1 78 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.98%) Electronics
3 47 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.13%) Automotive
5 32 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (6.97%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.05%) Finance
8 19 (4.57%) Aerospace
9 18 (4.33%) Retail
10 16 (3.85%) Military
10 16 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.40%) Marketing
11 10 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.40%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.16%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.96%) Legal
14 4 (0.96%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.72%) Games
16 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.33%) .NET
2 13 (3.13%) Gherkin
2 13 (3.13%) XML
3 12 (2.88%) Playwright
3 12 (2.88%) pytest
4 9 (2.16%) HTML
4 9 (2.16%) SOAP
5 8 (1.92%) REST
6 7 (1.68%) Node.js
7 6 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (1.44%) WebdriverIO
8 5 (1.20%) CSS
8 5 (1.20%) JSON
8 5 (1.20%) Web Services
9 4 (0.96%) DOM
9 4 (0.96%) Middleware
9 4 (0.96%) OAuth
9 4 (0.96%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.96%) XSLT
10 3 (0.72%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.73%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (3.61%) IoT
3 12 (2.88%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.64%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (2.40%) Acoustics
5 10 (2.40%) Satnav
6 9 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.92%) Smartphone
8 7 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.44%) Chip and PIN
9 6 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.96%) NHS
11 4 (0.96%) Robotics
12 3 (0.72%) PCIe
13 2 (0.48%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.82%) Windows
2 38 (9.13%) Linux
3 19 (4.57%) Unix
4 9 (2.16%) Android
5 8 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.48%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (50.72%) Test Automation
2 152 (36.54%) Software Testing
3 136 (32.69%) Agile
4 69 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (15.63%) Test Scripting
6 61 (14.66%) Regression Testing
7 54 (12.98%) DevOps
8 50 (12.02%) Manual Testing
9 49 (11.78%) CI/CD
10 47 (11.30%) Test Strategy
11 46 (11.06%) Computer Science
11 46 (11.06%) Software Engineering
12 42 (10.10%) API Testing
13 39 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (8.17%) Test Management
15 32 (7.69%) Non-Functional Testing
16 29 (6.97%) Functional Testing
16 29 (6.97%) Validation
17 28 (6.73%) BDD
17 28 (6.73%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 80 (19.23%) Python
2 48 (11.54%) C#
3 44 (10.58%) SQL
4 34 (8.17%) JavaScript
5 30 (7.21%) Java
6 22 (5.29%) C
7 15 (3.61%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.64%) C++
9 9 (2.16%) Embedded C
9 9 (2.16%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.44%) Groovy
11 5 (1.20%) Bash
11 5 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.96%) Ruby
13 2 (0.48%) PHP
13 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 106 (25.48%) Degree
2 53 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 46 (11.06%) ISTQB
4 30 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.33%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.13%) HND
8 12 (2.88%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (2.40%) HNC
11 9 (2.16%) ISEB
12 5 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.96%) CIPD
13 4 (0.96%) GIAC
13 4 (0.96%) ISEB Practitioner
13 4 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.72%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.72%) NVQ Level 3
15 2 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (18.27%) QA
2 15 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.64%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.72%) COSHH
4 3 (0.72%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.72%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.72%) JTAG
4 3 (0.72%) MISRA
5 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) HAZOP
System Software
1 13 (3.13%) Firmware
2 11 (2.64%) Docker
3 6 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.96%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.72%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.40%) Grafana
2 5 (1.20%) Kibana
3 4 (0.96%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.72%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.48%) Terraform
6 1 (0.24%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Iperf
6 1 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 51 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.37%) Google
3 7 (1.68%) EMC
4 6 (1.44%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.44%) Thales
4 6 (1.44%) VMware
5 5 (1.20%) Oracle
5 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.20%) Splunk
6 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.72%) Conga
6 3 (0.72%) IBM
6 3 (0.72%) Lauterbach
6 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.48%) YouTube
8 1 (0.24%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.24%) Denodo
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.24%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.24%) Talend