Test Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Test Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Test Engineer salary in Leeds is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 142 150
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 14 33 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.61% 1.08% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.13% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5 29 41
10th Percentile £32,200 - £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £37,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - £85,000 £65,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -36.36% +12.82% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,186 2,910 3,655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.22% 97.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,569 1,743 2,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,250 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Leeds

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Leeds region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) Software Testing
1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 9 (64.29%) ISTQB
2 9 (64.29%) Test Scripting
2 9 (64.29%) Regression Testing
2 9 (64.29%) Defect Management
3 8 (57.14%) Google
3 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (42.86%) Selenium
5 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
5 5 (35.71%) Degree
5 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
5 5 (35.71%) MSTest
5 5 (35.71%) Functional Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (35.71%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (35.71%) HP UFT
5 5 (35.71%) LoadRunner
5 5 (35.71%) C#
5 5 (35.71%) ITIL
5 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
5 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Management
5 5 (35.71%) JMeter
5 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
6 4 (28.57%) dbt
6 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
6 4 (28.57%) Cloud Composer

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Composer
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Functions
1 4 (28.57%) dbt
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
1 4 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (28.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Selenium
2 5 (35.71%) HP UFT
2 5 (35.71%) JMeter
2 5 (35.71%) LoadRunner
2 5 (35.71%) MSTest
2 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (28.57%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (28.57%) Postman
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
1 4 (28.57%) Gherkin
1 4 (28.57%) HTML
1 4 (28.57%) Web Services
1 4 (28.57%) XML
1 4 (28.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) Software Testing
1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 9 (64.29%) Defect Management
2 9 (64.29%) Regression Testing
2 9 (64.29%) Test Scripting
3 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
3 5 (35.71%) Functional Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
3 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Management
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Load Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
4 4 (28.57%) SOA
4 4 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) Groovy
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) ISTQB
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (28.57%) CIPD
3 4 (28.57%) DBS Check
3 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Google
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware