Test Engineer Jobs in Gloucestershire

Test Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Test Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 91 96
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 15 28 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.86% 2.11% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 2.47% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £52,000 £40,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,688 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% +19.77% -21.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £72,000 £70,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £44,039
% change year-on-year +5.00% +13.54% -11.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 1,684 1,134 1,235
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.67% 85.58% 97.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 528 752
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,100 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,500 £37,108
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,000 £62,827
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Gloucestershire

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Gloucestershire

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Gloucestershire

Test Engineer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Gloucester +3 10 £55,000 +6.80% 1
Tewkesbury - 1 - -
Test Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 4 (26.67%) Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Confluence
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Test Management
4 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) User Stories
4 3 (20.00%) API Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.67%) Windows
6 1 (6.67%) VMware
6 1 (6.67%) Python
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (6.67%) Subversion
6 1 (6.67%) Robotics
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.67%) QA
6 1 (6.67%) Selenium
6 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) Subversion
2 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Robotics
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (20.00%) API Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Test Management
3 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) User Stories
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (6.67%) Functional Testing
5 1 (6.67%) QA Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (6.67%) VMware