Software Testing Jobs in Bristol

Software Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 100 97
Rank change year-on-year +46 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 69 40 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.14% 2.14% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 2.23% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 45 37 49
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,750 £30,150
25th Percentile £47,603 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £69,250
South West median annual salary £57,560 £53,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.09% +18.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,789 1,794 2,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 81.36% 95.88% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 936 1,290 1,692
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £31,612
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,419 £83,750
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Bristol

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Bristol.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Bristol

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Bristol

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (10.14%) Apache
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.90%) Appian
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.45%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) AutoCAD
1 2 (2.90%) Revit
2 1 (1.45%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.03%) AWS
2 22 (31.88%) Azure
3 11 (15.94%) OpenShift
4 5 (7.25%) GCP
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.90%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.80%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (4.35%) Big Data
3 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.45%) Bigtable
5 1 (1.45%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.45%) Redis
5 1 (1.45%) RethinkDB
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) Eclipse
2 6 (8.70%) Eclipse RCP
3 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 13 (18.84%) Tech for Good
2 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Games
3 7 (10.14%) Legal
4 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Finance
6 2 (2.90%) Advertising
7 1 (1.45%) Aviation
7 1 (1.45%) Avionics
7 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Software Engineer
2 15 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (20.29%) Automation Engineer
3 14 (20.29%) Operations Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (17.39%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 10 (14.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Lead
7 8 (11.59%) Senior
7 8 (11.59%) Tester
8 7 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (10.14%) Software Tester
9 6 (8.70%) .NET Software Engineer
9 6 (8.70%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Architect
10 4 (5.80%) Trainee
10 4 (5.80%) Trainee Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) CSS
2 6 (8.70%) .NET
2 6 (8.70%) gRPC
2 6 (8.70%) HTML
2 6 (8.70%) JSP
2 6 (8.70%) Middleware
2 6 (8.70%) OAuth
3 5 (7.25%) Pandas
3 5 (7.25%) PySpark
3 5 (7.25%) Spring
4 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.80%) Kafka
4 4 (5.80%) PyTorch
4 4 (5.80%) React
4 4 (5.80%) TensorFlow
5 3 (4.35%) Apache Wicket
5 3 (4.35%) GWT
5 3 (4.35%) Hibernate
5 3 (4.35%) JSF
5 3 (4.35%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.43%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (10.14%) Algorithms
4 6 (8.70%) Client/Server
5 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.90%) Acoustics
7 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.45%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (44.93%) Linux
2 15 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (10.14%) Windows
4 6 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.97%) Software Engineering
2 29 (42.03%) Agile
3 25 (36.23%) CI/CD
4 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 16 (23.19%) Configuration Management
5 16 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (20.29%) Mentoring
8 13 (18.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 13 (18.84%) SDLC
9 12 (17.39%) Mathematics
10 10 (14.49%) Cloud Operations
10 10 (14.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (13.04%) Computer Science
11 9 (13.04%) Machine Learning
11 9 (13.04%) TDD
12 8 (11.59%) Physics
12 8 (11.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (53.62%) Python
2 32 (46.38%) Java
3 15 (21.74%) Perl
4 14 (20.29%) SQL
5 11 (15.94%) C++
5 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.14%) C#
7 5 (7.25%) Rust
8 2 (2.90%) Bash
8 2 (2.90%) Go
9 1 (1.45%) C
9 1 (1.45%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.45%) PHP
9 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (31.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (24.64%) Ansible
2 17 (24.64%) Terraform
3 15 (21.74%) Progress Chef
3 15 (21.74%) Puppet
3 15 (21.74%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (7.25%) Databricks
1 5 (7.25%) Google
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle