Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 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 420 429 351
Rank change year-on-year +9 -78 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 387 346 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.61% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.69% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 214 223 440
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,350 £33,740
25th Percentile £38,854 £39,166 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £53,063 £62,667 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,741 £72,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Test Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East +2 117 £45,000 - 48
South West -19 62 £49,875 -3.16% 25
East of England +43 59 £45,000 -30.77% 23
Midlands -21 58 £42,500 -22.73% 39
West Midlands -25 48 £42,500 -22.73% 30
Scotland -61 36 £45,000 -16.30% 19
North of England +4 34 £43,750 -12.50% 21
Yorkshire +40 19 £38,750 -3.40% 3
Wales +20 16 £42,500 -15.83% 2
North West -2 13 £47,500 -11.63% 17
East Midlands -14 10 £40,000 -15.79% 9
Northern Ireland +24 4 - - 1
North East -18 2 £57,965 +0.81% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 172 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 137 (35.40%) Software Testing
3 114 (29.46%) Agile
4 105 (27.13%) Degree
5 73 (18.86%) Social Skills
5 73 (18.86%) Python
5 73 (18.86%) QA
6 61 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (14.73%) Test Scripting
8 54 (13.95%) Regression Testing
9 53 (13.70%) Electronics
10 49 (12.66%) Microsoft
11 48 (12.40%) Security Cleared
11 48 (12.40%) DevOps
12 45 (11.63%) Manual Testing
12 45 (11.63%) Selenium
12 45 (11.63%) JIRA
13 44 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
14 43 (11.11%) Windows
15 42 (10.85%) Computer Science
16 41 (10.59%) C#
17 40 (10.34%) Software Engineering
17 40 (10.34%) Azure
18 39 (10.08%) ISTQB
18 39 (10.08%) SQL
19 38 (9.82%) Automotive
20 36 (9.30%) Git
21 35 (9.04%) Linux
21 35 (9.04%) CI/CD
22 33 (8.53%) Test Strategy

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 24 (6.20%) Confluence
2 2 (0.52%) MTS
3 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.26%) IIS
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 21 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.29%) Simulink
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (10.34%) Azure
2 19 (4.91%) AWS
3 18 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (3.10%) GitHub
5 6 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (1.55%) GCP
6 5 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (1.03%) Cloud Composer
7 4 (1.03%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (1.03%) dbt
7 4 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (1.03%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.78%) SaaS
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.52%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.52%) Serverless
10 1 (0.26%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.26%) Datadog
10 1 (0.26%) Firebase
10 1 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.91%) Wireless
2 18 (4.65%) Bluetooth
2 18 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (2.58%) 5G
3 10 (2.58%) GSM
3 10 (2.58%) ISDN
3 10 (2.58%) LTE
3 10 (2.58%) PSTN
3 10 (2.58%) UMTS
4 7 (1.81%) Ethernet
5 6 (1.55%) Internet
6 5 (1.29%) Network Security
6 5 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.03%) FlexRay
7 4 (1.03%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.78%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.52%) DHCP
9 2 (0.52%) DNS
10 1 (0.26%) Firewall
10 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.55%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.29%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.03%) Tableau
6 2 (0.52%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.26%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (11.63%) JIRA
1 45 (11.63%) Selenium
2 36 (9.30%) Git
3 27 (6.98%) LabVIEW
4 21 (5.43%) Postman
5 20 (5.17%) Cypress.io
6 18 (4.65%) Appium
7 16 (4.13%) MSTest
8 15 (3.88%) Cucumber
9 14 (3.62%) Bitbucket
10 13 (3.36%) Jenkins
10 13 (3.36%) JMeter
11 12 (3.10%) SpecFlow
11 12 (3.10%) Visual Studio
12 11 (2.84%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (2.84%) UI Automator
13 10 (2.58%) JBehave
14 7 (1.81%) JUnit
14 7 (1.81%) SoapUI
14 7 (1.81%) WebDriver
General
1 73 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.70%) Electronics
3 44 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.82%) Automotive
5 28 (7.24%) Manufacturing
6 27 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (5.68%) Military
8 21 (5.43%) Aerospace
8 21 (5.43%) Finance
9 20 (5.17%) Retail
10 12 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.58%) Marketing
12 10 (2.58%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.03%) Legal
15 3 (0.78%) Games
15 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.78%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.52%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.36%) .NET
1 13 (3.36%) Gherkin
2 9 (2.33%) Playwright
2 9 (2.33%) pytest
2 9 (2.33%) XML
3 8 (2.07%) HTML
4 7 (1.81%) REST
5 6 (1.55%) SOAP
6 5 (1.29%) JSON
6 5 (1.29%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (1.29%) Web Services
7 4 (1.03%) CSS
7 4 (1.03%) DOM
7 4 (1.03%) Middleware
7 4 (1.03%) XSLT
8 3 (0.78%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.78%) Qt
8 3 (0.78%) RESTful
9 2 (0.52%) Node.js
9 2 (0.52%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.24%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (3.88%) IoT
3 12 (3.10%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (3.10%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.58%) Acoustics
4 10 (2.58%) Satnav
5 7 (1.81%) Smartphone
6 6 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.55%) Chip and PIN
6 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.29%) Robotics
8 4 (1.03%) NHS
9 3 (0.78%) PCIe
9 3 (0.78%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.52%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.52%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.11%) Windows
2 35 (9.04%) Linux
3 16 (4.13%) Unix
4 8 (2.07%) Android
4 8 (2.07%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.52%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 137 (35.40%) Software Testing
3 114 (29.46%) Agile
4 61 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (14.73%) Test Scripting
6 54 (13.95%) Regression Testing
7 48 (12.40%) DevOps
8 45 (11.63%) Manual Testing
9 42 (10.85%) Computer Science
10 40 (10.34%) Software Engineering
11 35 (9.04%) CI/CD
12 33 (8.53%) API Testing
12 33 (8.53%) Test Strategy
13 32 (8.27%) Continuous Integration
13 32 (8.27%) Test Management
14 30 (7.75%) Validation
15 23 (5.94%) Functional Testing
16 22 (5.68%) BDD
17 21 (5.43%) Non-Functional Testing
18 20 (5.17%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 73 (18.86%) Python
2 41 (10.59%) C#
3 39 (10.08%) SQL
4 26 (6.72%) Java
5 25 (6.46%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.68%) C
7 15 (3.88%) MATLAB
8 12 (3.10%) C++
9 9 (2.33%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.07%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.29%) Bash
11 5 (1.29%) Groovy
12 4 (1.03%) Ruby
13 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.26%) Perl
14 1 (0.26%) PHP
14 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (27.13%) Degree
2 48 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 39 (10.08%) ISTQB
4 26 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.62%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.10%) DBS Check
8 10 (2.58%) HND
9 8 (2.07%) HNC
10 6 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.29%) ISEB
11 5 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.03%) CIPD
12 4 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.78%) NVQ Level 3
14 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 1 (0.26%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (18.86%) QA
2 11 (2.84%) ISO 9001
3 8 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.78%) COSHH
4 3 (0.78%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.78%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.78%) JTAG
4 3 (0.78%) MISRA
5 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.26%) HAZOP
System Software
1 12 (3.10%) Firmware
2 6 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.03%) VMware Server
4 3 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.52%) Docker
6 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.78%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.52%) Grafana
2 2 (0.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.26%) Iperf
3 1 (0.26%) Kibana
3 1 (0.26%) Nmap
3 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.84%) Google
3 8 (2.07%) EMC
4 6 (1.55%) Thales
4 6 (1.55%) VMware
5 5 (1.29%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.78%) Conga
6 3 (0.78%) IBM
6 3 (0.78%) Lauterbach
6 3 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.26%) Denodo
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.26%) Splunk
7 1 (0.26%) Talend