Test Assurance Jobs in the South East

Test Assurance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Test Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 370 491
Rank change year-on-year +11 +121 -101
Permanent jobs citing Test Assurance 45 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.053% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.056% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £35,200 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £35,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,500 £48,675
Median % change year-on-year +35.80% -16.80% +26.24%
75th Percentile £57,500 £42,475 £51,925
90th Percentile - £45,293 £56,733
England median annual salary £57,500 £45,335 £48,500
% change year-on-year +26.83% -6.53% +25.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Test Assurance 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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,283 12,518 20,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.98% 94.30% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,406 7,566 11,829
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in the South East

Test Assurance
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance in the South East.

Salary trend for Test Assurance in the South East

Test Assurance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Assurance within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hampshire -14 28 - -
Surrey - 10 £55,000 -
Thames Valley - 7 - -
Berkshire - 7 - -
Test Assurance
England

Test Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (8.89%) TWiki
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.11%) Azure
1 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (55.56%) Selenium
2 11 (24.44%) TestRail
3 9 (20.00%) eggPlant
4 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.22%) JMeter
4 1 (2.22%) Postman
4 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (77.78%) Aerospace
2 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Banking
3 1 (2.22%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Automation Tester
1 24 (53.33%) Tester
2 10 (22.22%) Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Test Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Lead
5 1 (2.22%) Test Leader
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 44 (97.78%) Agile
3 35 (77.78%) Collaborative Working
4 32 (71.11%) Requirements Analysis
5 31 (68.89%) Actionable Insight
6 28 (62.22%) Mentoring
6 28 (62.22%) Test Scripting
7 24 (53.33%) Coaching
7 24 (53.33%) Technical Analysis
8 15 (33.33%) Test Planning
9 11 (24.44%) Agile Testing
9 11 (24.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 11 (24.44%) Software Testing
9 11 (24.44%) Test Management
10 8 (17.78%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
11 5 (11.11%) DevOps
11 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
11 5 (11.11%) Security Testing
12 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.22%) SQL
1 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (95.56%) Security Cleared
2 38 (84.44%) DV Cleared
3 12 (26.67%) ISTQB
3 12 (26.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft