Test Engineer Jobs in Hampshire

Test Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Test Engineer salary in Hampshire is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 126 204
Rank change year-on-year -21 +78 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 39 47 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.00% 1.59% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.68% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25 32 42
10th Percentile £35,500 £28,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,166 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £44,375
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -6.48% -1.39%
75th Percentile £47,500 £53,125 £59,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £80,375 £62,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 3,676 2,796 5,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.78% 97.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,870 2,062 3,653
10th Percentile £26,738 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,125 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £64,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Hampshire

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Hampshire

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Hampshire

Test Engineer
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Fareham +18 15 £45,000 - 3
Southampton -9 10 £37,910 -7.13% 2
Portsmouth +10 1 £55,000 +46.67% 9
Basingstoke -3 1 £34,000 -24.44%
Test Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Hampshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (46.15%) Software Testing
2 14 (35.90%) QA
3 11 (28.21%) C#
3 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
3 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
4 9 (23.08%) Selenium
4 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 9 (23.08%) Test Scripting
4 9 (23.08%) Embedded C
4 9 (23.08%) C
4 9 (23.08%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) DevOps
5 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) JIRA
6 7 (17.95%) Electronics
7 6 (15.38%) Retail
7 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
7 6 (15.38%) JBehave
7 6 (15.38%) Cucumber
7 6 (15.38%) BDD
7 6 (15.38%) SpecFlow
7 6 (15.38%) Gherkin
7 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (15.38%) TeamCity
7 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
9 4 (10.26%) Military
9 4 (10.26%) Manual Testing

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (5.13%) Azure
1 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (5.13%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Selenium
2 7 (17.95%) JIRA
3 6 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 6 (15.38%) JBehave
3 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.38%) SpecFlow
3 6 (15.38%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.13%) JMeter
5 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
General
1 7 (17.95%) Electronics
2 6 (15.38%) Retail
3 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.26%) Military
5 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.56%) Middleware
2 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Software Testing
2 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
3 9 (23.08%) Agile
3 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 9 (23.08%) Test Scripting
4 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
4 8 (20.51%) DevOps
5 6 (15.38%) BDD
5 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.26%) Manual Testing
7 3 (7.69%) Synthetic Environment
7 3 (7.69%) Test Strategy
8 2 (5.13%) Customer-Centricity
8 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (5.13%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.13%) SDLC
8 2 (5.13%) User Experience
8 2 (5.13%) Waterfall
8 2 (5.13%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) C#
2 9 (23.08%) C
2 9 (23.08%) Embedded C
3 3 (7.69%) C++
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) Python
4 2 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.90%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Firmware