Test Engineer Jobs in the South East

Test Engineer
England > South East

The median Test Engineer salary in the South East is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 280 329
Rank change year-on-year +2 +49 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 126 97 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 0.73% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.82% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 69 65 119
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,166 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.64%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £53,832 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.41% +7.66% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
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 Engineer 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 -17 60 £45,000 +7.14% 16
Thames Valley -4 32 £37,500 -16.67% 12
Buckinghamshire +5 20 - - 7
Surrey -6 18 £47,500 -29.63% 3
Oxfordshire -20 8 £42,500 - 3
Sussex - 7 £40,000 -
Berkshire +4 4 £34,000 -32.00% 2
Kent - 4 £38,750 - 2
West Sussex +10 3 - - 4
East Sussex +16 2 £50,000 +5.26% 1
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 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 South East region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 44 (34.92%) Software Testing
3 42 (33.33%) Degree
4 32 (25.40%) Agile
5 27 (21.43%) QA
6 26 (20.63%) Security Cleared
7 24 (19.05%) Test Scripting
7 24 (19.05%) Electronics
8 22 (17.46%) Python
9 19 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (14.29%) C#
11 17 (13.49%) Military
12 15 (11.90%) Software Engineering
12 15 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (11.11%) Synthetic Environment
13 14 (11.11%) Manufacturing
13 14 (11.11%) C
13 14 (11.11%) Computer Science
14 13 (10.32%) Aerospace
14 13 (10.32%) Retail
14 13 (10.32%) DevOps
15 12 (9.52%) Coaching
15 12 (9.52%) Data Management
15 12 (9.52%) LabVIEW
16 11 (8.73%) Selenium
16 11 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
16 11 (8.73%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
17 10 (7.94%) Satnav
17 10 (7.94%) 5G

Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.35%) Azure
1 8 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.94%) 5G
1 10 (7.94%) Bluetooth
1 10 (7.94%) GSM
1 10 (7.94%) ISDN
1 10 (7.94%) LTE
1 10 (7.94%) PSTN
1 10 (7.94%) UMTS
1 10 (7.94%) Wi-Fi
1 10 (7.94%) Wireless
2 4 (3.17%) Network Security
2 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) LabVIEW
2 11 (8.73%) Selenium
3 8 (6.35%) JIRA
4 6 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.97%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.97%) eggPlant
5 5 (3.97%) JBehave
5 5 (3.97%) SpecFlow
5 5 (3.97%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.38%) TestRail
7 2 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.59%) JMeter
7 2 (1.59%) Postman
8 1 (0.79%) Protractor
8 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.79%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (19.05%) Electronics
2 17 (13.49%) Military
3 15 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 13 (10.32%) Aerospace
5 13 (10.32%) Retail
6 11 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (8.73%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
7 10 (7.94%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.76%) Marketing
9 3 (2.38%) Aviation
9 3 (2.38%) Legal
10 2 (1.59%) Automotive
10 2 (1.59%) Games
10 2 (1.59%) Swedish Language
11 1 (0.79%) Avionics
11 1 (0.79%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) Gherkin
2 6 (4.76%) .NET
3 4 (3.17%) Middleware
4 3 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.79%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.79%) Node.js
5 1 (0.79%) Playwright
5 1 (0.79%) Puppeteer
5 1 (0.79%) REST
5 1 (0.79%) Swagger
5 1 (0.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Acoustics
1 10 (7.94%) Satnav
2 6 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (3.97%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.97%) Robotics
3 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.38%) Chip and PIN
6 2 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Animation
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.76%) Windows
2 5 (3.97%) Windows Server
2 5 (3.97%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (3.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 44 (34.92%) Software Testing
3 32 (25.40%) Agile
4 24 (19.05%) Test Scripting
5 19 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (11.90%) Software Engineering
7 14 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 14 (11.11%) Synthetic Environment
8 13 (10.32%) DevOps
9 12 (9.52%) Coaching
9 12 (9.52%) Data Management
10 10 (7.94%) Critical Thinking
10 10 (7.94%) Manual Testing
11 9 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (7.14%) Mathematics
11 9 (7.14%) Regression Testing
11 9 (7.14%) Test Strategy
12 8 (6.35%) CI/CD
12 8 (6.35%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.46%) Python
2 18 (14.29%) C#
3 14 (11.11%) C
4 8 (6.35%) Embedded C
5 7 (5.56%) C++
6 4 (3.17%) Bash
6 4 (3.17%) Java
6 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.59%) SQL
7 2 (1.59%) VB
8 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (33.33%) Degree
2 26 (20.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.35%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.97%) DBS Check
5 5 (3.97%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.38%) HNC
7 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) Firmware
2 3 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.97%) EMC
3 3 (2.38%) Conga
3 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 3 (2.38%) Thales