Tester Jobs in the City of London

Tester
Central London > City of London

The median Tester salary in the City of London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 221 217
Rank change year-on-year +59 -4 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 16 15 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.47% 0.32% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.33% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 56
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile - £109,000 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +10.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,231 4,577 6,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 96.44% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 3,850 5,625
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tester in the City of London.

Salary trend for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Tester in the City of London

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 City of London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) Mobile App
3 6 (37.50%) Law
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) CREST Certified
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) AWS
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (25.00%) QA
5 4 (25.00%) Selenium
6 3 (18.75%) Google
6 3 (18.75%) SaaS
6 3 (18.75%) Billing
6 3 (18.75%) JSON
6 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (18.75%) GCP
6 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (12.50%) Social Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) API Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
7 2 (12.50%) Presales
7 2 (12.50%) Postman
7 2 (12.50%) Red Team
7 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Android

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
3 1 (6.25%) NeoLoad
3 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (37.50%) Law
2 3 (18.75%) Billing
3 2 (12.50%) Games
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) jQuery
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) Swagger
2 1 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Android
1 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) API Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Presales
5 2 (12.50%) Red Team
5 2 (12.50%) Social Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Testing
6 1 (6.25%) System Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Test Management
6 1 (6.25%) Test Scripting
6 1 (6.25%) Time Management
6 1 (6.25%) Usability Testing
6 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C#
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow