Software Testing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 114 90 43
Rank change year-on-year -24 -47 +45
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 153 201 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.15% 3.53% 6.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 3.73% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 109 102 149
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,807 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,020 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,935 5,395 6,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.47% 94.67% 93.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,951 2,996 3,893
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +11 121 £61,250 - 12
Oxfordshire -23 16 £40,000 +6.67% 9
Buckinghamshire -29 16 £49,000 -2.00% 16
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (4.58%) Apache
2 6 (3.92%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.92%) WinCC
3 3 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Moodle
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.65%) Totara
Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.92%) AWS
2 27 (17.65%) Azure
3 19 (12.42%) GitHub
4 7 (4.58%) IaaS
5 6 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.27%) SaaS
7 3 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.31%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.65%) GCP
9 1 (0.65%) Serverless
9 1 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) Ethernet
1 7 (4.58%) LAN
2 3 (1.96%) Network Security
2 3 (1.96%) Profibus
3 2 (1.31%) Firewall
4 1 (0.65%) GPRS
4 1 (0.65%) MQTT
4 1 (0.65%) RS-232
4 1 (0.65%) RS-485
4 1 (0.65%) RTP
4 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.50%) OLTP
2 7 (4.58%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.96%) Power BI
3 3 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.31%) Big Data
4 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) GitLab
1 21 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 14 (9.15%) Cucumber
3 14 (9.15%) Selenium
4 11 (7.19%) JIRA
5 10 (6.54%) JUnit
6 8 (5.23%) REST Assured
6 8 (5.23%) TestNG
6 8 (5.23%) WebDriver
7 6 (3.92%) Bugzilla
7 6 (3.92%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.92%) Zephyr
8 5 (3.27%) Git
8 5 (3.27%) JMeter
9 4 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (2.61%) Serenity BDD
10 3 (1.96%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.96%) Postman
10 3 (1.96%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (2.61%) Marketing
5 3 (1.96%) Electronics
6 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Finance
7 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (20.92%) Software Engineer
2 30 (19.61%) Developer
3 29 (18.95%) Senior
4 24 (15.69%) Architect
4 24 (15.69%) Software Architect
5 14 (9.15%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) Oracle Developer
6 13 (8.50%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 11 (7.19%) Software Developer
8 10 (6.54%) Tester
9 9 (5.88%) Automation Tester
9 9 (5.88%) Developer in Test
9 9 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Analyst
10 8 (5.23%) Support Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Desktop Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.46%) SOAP
2 13 (8.50%) HTML
2 13 (8.50%) XML
3 12 (7.84%) Web Services
4 8 (5.23%) REST
4 8 (5.23%) WireMock
5 7 (4.58%) Apache Commons
5 7 (4.58%) Guava
5 7 (4.58%) Java Concurrency
6 6 (3.92%) OpenMP
6 6 (3.92%) Playwright
7 4 (2.61%) EDI
8 3 (1.96%) Middleware
8 3 (1.96%) RESTful
9 2 (1.31%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.31%) Kafka
9 2 (1.31%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.65%) Celery
10 1 (0.65%) pytest
10 1 (0.65%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Algorithms
2 13 (8.50%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.19%) Life Science
4 9 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 9 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.92%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.92%) CUDA
6 6 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.92%) SCADA
6 6 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.61%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.96%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.65%) Animation
9 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.65%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.65%) LIMS
9 1 (0.65%) SCORM
9 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (30.07%) Linux
2 24 (15.69%) Unix
3 14 (9.15%) Windows
4 7 (4.58%) Windows 10
4 7 (4.58%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.31%) CentOS
5 2 (1.31%) Debian
5 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.87%) Agile
2 50 (32.68%) Computer Science
3 48 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (26.14%) Physics
5 35 (22.88%) Software Engineering
6 30 (19.61%) Open Source
6 30 (19.61%) SDET
7 27 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 27 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 26 (16.99%) DevOps
9 24 (15.69%) Containerisation
10 23 (15.03%) Mathematics
10 23 (15.03%) SDLC
11 19 (12.42%) Performance Analysis
12 17 (11.11%) Monte Carlo Method
12 17 (11.11%) Parallel Programming
13 16 (10.46%) Code Quality
13 16 (10.46%) Migration
14 11 (7.19%) API Testing
14 11 (7.19%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.52%) Python
2 42 (27.45%) SQL
3 40 (26.14%) C++
3 40 (26.14%) Fortran
4 29 (18.95%) Bash
5 28 (18.30%) C
6 23 (15.03%) Java
7 20 (13.07%) C#
8 19 (12.42%) JavaScript
9 15 (9.80%) PL/SQL
10 11 (7.19%) Groovy
11 6 (3.92%) Perl
11 6 (3.92%) Ruby
11 6 (3.92%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.61%) Embedded C
12 4 (2.61%) Embedded C++
12 4 (2.61%) PHP
13 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 70 (45.75%) Security Cleared
2 64 (41.83%) Degree
3 23 (15.03%) PhD
4 18 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 18 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.23%) AWS Certification
6 8 (5.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.65%) ISEB
8 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.76%) QA
2 6 (3.92%) SLA
3 2 (1.31%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) JTAG
4 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (16.34%) Docker
2 15 (9.80%) Firmware
3 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (15.03%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.50%) Terraform
3 7 (4.58%) SCCM
4 5 (3.27%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (2.61%) Ansible
6 3 (1.96%) Wonderware InTouch
7 2 (1.31%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.65%) Grafana
8 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.46%) Oracle
3 12 (7.84%) HP
4 6 (3.92%) AVEVA
4 6 (3.92%) Rockwell
4 6 (3.92%) Siemens
5 3 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.96%) Wonderware
6 2 (1.31%) Acronis
6 2 (1.31%) WatchGuard
7 1 (0.65%) Google
7 1 (0.65%) SAP
7 1 (0.65%) Talend