Software Testing Jobs in Kent

Software Testing
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 77 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -27
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 3 25 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.36% 1.59% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 2.00% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 7
10th Percentile £35,200 - £42,200
25th Percentile £37,375 £26,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £41,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -25.00% +44.74%
75th Percentile £48,375 £59,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £49,800 £75,250 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.45% -10.91% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 645 1,248 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 77.43% 79.44% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 376 889 466
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Kent

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Kent.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Kent

Software Testing
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Kent region over the 6 months to 12 July 2025. 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
Rochester -16 1 £49,500 -
Maidstone - 1 - - 3
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) LabVIEW
1 1 (33.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CakePHP
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft