Tester Jobs in Central London

Tester
London > Central London

The median Tester salary in Central London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 231 229
Rank change year-on-year +63 -2 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 20 14 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.53% 0.27% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.28% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 57
10th Percentile £38,975 £44,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,563 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £69,375 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £109,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,585 4,963 7,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 95.94% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,795 4,134 6,329
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £54,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,480 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +1.35% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Central London

Tester
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tester in Central London.

Salary trend for Tester in Central London

Tester
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Tester in Central London

Tester
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
City of London +53 17 £55,000 -10.20% 4
City of Westminster - 3 - -
West End of London - 1 £38,000 -
Tester
London

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Tester 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 Central London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
3 7 (35.00%) Law
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Mobile App
5 5 (25.00%) CREST Certified
5 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (25.00%) QA
5 5 (25.00%) Selenium
6 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 4 (20.00%) AWS
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (15.00%) GCP
7 3 (15.00%) API Testing
7 3 (15.00%) SaaS
7 3 (15.00%) JSON
7 3 (15.00%) JIRA
7 3 (15.00%) Google
7 3 (15.00%) Billing
7 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
8 2 (10.00%) Legal
8 2 (10.00%) Regression Testing
8 2 (10.00%) C#
8 2 (10.00%) Games
8 2 (10.00%) Android
8 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Selenium
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.00%) NeoLoad
4 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (35.00%) Law
2 3 (15.00%) Billing
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Games
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) jQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Playwright
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) Swagger
2 1 (5.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Debian
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) API Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.00%) Presales
6 2 (10.00%) Red Team
6 2 (10.00%) Regression Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Social Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
7 1 (5.00%) BDD
7 1 (5.00%) Data Modelling
7 1 (5.00%) ETL
7 1 (5.00%) Project Management
7 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Aderant
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) iManage
3 1 (5.00%) Intapp
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Telerik