Senior Test Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in England is £50,000 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 780 815 972
Rank change year-on-year +35 +157 -243
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 53 129 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 31 79 144
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £51,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,197 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% -12.00% +18.18%
75th Percentile £60,741 £83,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £91,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.73% -1.67% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,360 84,735 126,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,202 53,671 75,665
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,160 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
South East -6 17 £45,000 -40.00% 12
Midlands +18 11 £47,500 -19.15% 2
West Midlands +35 10 £42,500 - 2
North of England +13 9 £57,965 -7.26% 5
East of England +10 9 £45,000 -35.71% 10
London +103 4 £67,500 +12.50% 4
North West +6 4 £50,232 -44.19% 3
South West -28 4 £49,750 +4.74% 3
Yorkshire +77 3 £57,965 -25.21% 1
North East -8 2 £57,965 +3.97% 1
East Midlands -14 1 £62,500 +6.38%
Senior Test Engineer
UK

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (35.85%) Agile
2 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
3 13 (24.53%) Non-Functional Testing
4 11 (20.75%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (20.75%) Software Engineering
4 11 (20.75%) Software Testing
4 11 (20.75%) Manufacturing
5 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
5 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.21%) DevOps
6 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
6 7 (13.21%) Coaching
6 7 (13.21%) Git
6 7 (13.21%) Degree
6 7 (13.21%) LabVIEW
6 7 (13.21%) Scrum
6 7 (13.21%) C#
6 7 (13.21%) SQL
6 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
6 7 (13.21%) Electronics
7 6 (11.32%) Regression Testing
7 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
7 6 (11.32%) JIRA
7 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
7 6 (11.32%) Process Improvement
7 6 (11.32%) Test Strategy
7 6 (11.32%) REST
7 6 (11.32%) Agile Testing
7 6 (11.32%) Functional Testing
7 6 (11.32%) API Testing

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.43%) AWS
1 5 (9.43%) Azure
2 1 (1.89%) Firebase
2 1 (1.89%) GitHub
2 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Bluetooth
1 4 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (7.55%) ZigBee
2 1 (1.89%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.89%) HTTP
2 1 (1.89%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.43%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.89%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Git
1 7 (13.21%) LabVIEW
2 6 (11.32%) JIRA
2 6 (11.32%) Postman
3 5 (9.43%) MSTest
3 5 (9.43%) SoapUI
4 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.89%) Appium
5 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.89%) GitLab
5 1 (1.89%) mountebank
5 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.89%) Selenium
5 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 11 (20.75%) Manufacturing
2 7 (13.21%) Electronics
3 5 (9.43%) Automotive
4 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Games
5 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.77%) Finance
6 2 (3.77%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) REST
2 5 (9.43%) JSON
2 5 (9.43%) SOAP
2 5 (9.43%) XML
3 2 (3.77%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.89%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.89%) Kafka
4 1 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.89%) pytest
4 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.89%) Swagger
4 1 (1.89%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (1.89%) WireMock
4 1 (1.89%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.55%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (7.55%) IoT
3 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Animation
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Lidar
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Android
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Agile
2 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
3 13 (24.53%) Non-Functional Testing
4 11 (20.75%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (20.75%) Software Engineering
4 11 (20.75%) Software Testing
5 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.21%) Coaching
6 7 (13.21%) DevOps
6 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
6 7 (13.21%) Scrum
7 6 (11.32%) Agile Testing
7 6 (11.32%) API Testing
7 6 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (11.32%) Context-Driven Testing
7 6 (11.32%) Defect Management
7 6 (11.32%) Functional Testing
7 6 (11.32%) Process Improvement
7 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (11.32%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.21%) C#
1 7 (13.21%) SQL
2 5 (9.43%) C
2 5 (9.43%) Python
2 5 (9.43%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.89%) Go
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Firmware
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (1.89%) EMC
2 1 (1.89%) Google
2 1 (1.89%) Salesforce