Test Engineer Jobs in the North West

Test Engineer
England > North West

The median Test Engineer salary in the North West is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 218 275
Rank change year-on-year -24 +57 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 15 23 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.46% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.49% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 40
10th Percentile - £40,700 £33,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £38,862
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £41,250 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £42,750 £60,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 7,906 4,737 8,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.28% 93.86% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,658 3,230 5,620
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the North West

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the North West

Test Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Manchester -19 10 £37,500 -21.47% 6
Lancashire -43 4 - - 2
Cumbria - 1 - -
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 North West region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (33.33%) LTE
2 5 (33.33%) Data Management
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (33.33%) Bluetooth
2 5 (33.33%) GSM
2 5 (33.33%) UMTS
2 5 (33.33%) EMC
2 5 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (33.33%) Wireless
2 5 (33.33%) Automotive
2 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (33.33%) 5G
2 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (33.33%) Satnav
3 4 (26.67%) Postman
3 4 (26.67%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Terraform
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Firebase
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) 5G
1 5 (33.33%) Bluetooth
1 5 (33.33%) GSM
1 5 (33.33%) LTE
1 5 (33.33%) UMTS
1 5 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Selenium
2 4 (26.67%) Postman
3 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
3 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (6.67%) Appium
4 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.67%) Git
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Automotive
1 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Satnav
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (33.33%) Data Management
2 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.67%) BDD
5 1 (6.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Observability
5 1 (6.67%) Pair Programming
5 1 (6.67%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (6.67%) TDD
5 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) EMC