Software Testing Jobs in London

Software Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 140 179
Rank change year-on-year -99 +39 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 300 939 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.27% 2.65% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 2.78% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 252 441 597
10th Percentile £41,375 £42,611 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +0.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,566 33,796 64,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.32% 95.36% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,073 24,188 34,391
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +17 41 £67,500 -6.90% 9
South London -47 31 £62,500 +19.05% 5
East London +19 4 £75,000 +70.45% 4
West London -73 3 £50,000 - 1
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (2.00%) Apache
2 4 (1.33%) Confluence
2 4 (1.33%) IIS
3 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.67%) WinCC
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (3.33%) AutoCAD
1 10 (3.33%) Revit
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.67%) Trello
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 64 (21.33%) Azure
2 45 (15.00%) AWS
3 18 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.67%) GCP
5 13 (4.33%) SaaS
6 12 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 9 (3.00%) GitHub
8 9 (3.00%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.00%) Serverless
10 2 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.67%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.67%) ClickUp
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle CX
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) Multicast
1 4 (1.33%) Wireless
2 2 (0.67%) DNS
2 2 (0.67%) HTTP
2 2 (0.67%) Intranet
2 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) 3G
3 1 (0.33%) Internet
3 1 (0.33%) MQTT
3 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.33%) SMS
3 1 (0.33%) Softphone
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (5.00%) Redis
4 14 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.67%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.33%) MySQL
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.00%) MS Access
10 3 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.67%) Big Data
11 2 (0.67%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.67%) Flink
11 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (16.33%) Selenium
2 36 (12.00%) JIRA
3 32 (10.67%) JUnit
4 23 (7.67%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.67%) WebDriver
5 18 (6.00%) JMeter
6 15 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.00%) Git
7 12 (4.00%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.67%) TestNG
9 9 (3.00%) GitLab
9 9 (3.00%) Maven
9 9 (3.00%) REST Assured
10 8 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.33%) SoapUI
11 7 (2.33%) SpecFlow
12 6 (2.00%) TestRail
13 5 (1.67%) TeamCity
14 4 (1.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 75 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.33%) Finance
3 39 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.67%) Legal
5 16 (5.33%) Billing
5 16 (5.33%) Electronics
6 13 (4.33%) Back Office
7 12 (4.00%) Police
8 11 (3.67%) Banking
8 11 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.33%) Games
9 10 (3.33%) Marketing
9 10 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.67%) Law
11 7 (2.33%) Automotive
11 7 (2.33%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.33%) Retail
12 6 (2.00%) Advertising
13 5 (1.67%) Local Government
13 5 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (20.00%) Senior
2 57 (19.00%) Analyst
3 50 (16.67%) Developer
4 40 (13.33%) Lead
5 26 (8.67%) Test Analyst
6 24 (8.00%) Tester
7 22 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 20 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
9 18 (6.00%) Senior Developer
10 17 (5.67%) C# Developer
11 16 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (4.67%) Senior C# Developer
14 13 (4.33%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (4.33%) Full Stack Developer
14 13 (4.33%) IT Manager
14 13 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.33%) Software Tester
15 12 (4.00%) Charles River Analyst
15 12 (4.00%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.00%) .NET
2 33 (11.00%) React
3 27 (9.00%) REST
4 23 (7.67%) HTML
5 20 (6.67%) CSS
6 18 (6.00%) .NET Framework
7 16 (5.33%) JSON
8 14 (4.67%) Node.js
8 14 (4.67%) RESTful
8 14 (4.67%) Web Services
9 13 (4.33%) Kafka
10 11 (3.67%) Blazor
11 10 (3.33%) Next.js
11 10 (3.33%) Swagger
11 10 (3.33%) Unreal Engine
11 10 (3.33%) V-Ray
12 9 (3.00%) Prisma
12 9 (3.00%) Spring
12 9 (3.00%) Spring Boot
12 9 (3.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.67%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.33%) Hedge funds
4 13 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.00%) Fixed Income
6 11 (3.67%) Augmented Reality
6 11 (3.67%) e-Learning
6 11 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.67%) Video Conferencing
7 10 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.33%) HoloLens
7 10 (3.33%) HTC Vive
7 10 (3.33%) Oculus
7 10 (3.33%) Virtual Reality
8 7 (2.33%) IoT
9 6 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (2.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.33%) Linux
2 18 (6.00%) Windows
3 12 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.00%) Android
6 2 (0.67%) Debian
6 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Unix
7 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (46.33%) Agile
2 121 (40.33%) Test Automation
3 62 (20.67%) DevOps
4 59 (19.67%) CI/CD
5 55 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (18.33%) SDET
6 48 (16.00%) Software Engineering
7 46 (15.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 44 (14.67%) Test Strategy
9 43 (14.33%) Computer Science
10 38 (12.67%) Mentoring
11 37 (12.33%) Regression Testing
12 34 (11.33%) Performance Testing
13 30 (10.00%) Functional Testing
13 30 (10.00%) Scrum
14 28 (9.33%) Unit Testing
15 26 (8.67%) Full Stack Development
15 26 (8.67%) Test Planning
16 24 (8.00%) Project Management
17 23 (7.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 80 (26.67%) Java
2 58 (19.33%) Python
3 53 (17.67%) C#
4 45 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 45 (15.00%) SQL
5 32 (10.67%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.67%) Perl
7 9 (3.00%) C++
8 8 (2.67%) C
9 6 (2.00%) Groovy
9 6 (2.00%) VB
10 5 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.67%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.67%) X++
11 4 (1.33%) Go
11 4 (1.33%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.00%) Ruby
13 2 (0.67%) FoxPro (VFP)
13 2 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (27.33%) Degree
2 30 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 28 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.67%) ISEB
6 9 (3.00%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.67%) HNC
9 2 (0.67%) HND
9 2 (0.67%) PhD
9 2 (0.67%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.33%) QA
2 28 (9.33%) GDPR
3 8 (2.67%) ITGC
4 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.00%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.67%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) EMIR
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 37 (12.33%) Docker
2 15 (5.00%) Firmware
3 11 (3.67%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) NFS
4 1 (0.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 40 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.33%) Terraform
3 14 (4.67%) Ansible
4 12 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 11 (3.67%) Puppet
5 11 (3.67%) Salt
6 3 (1.00%) Consul
7 2 (0.67%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.67%) Wonderware InTouch
8 1 (0.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.00%) Google
3 12 (4.00%) Charles River
3 12 (4.00%) Oracle
4 10 (3.33%) Adobe
4 10 (3.33%) Autodesk
5 8 (2.67%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.67%) AVEVA
7 2 (0.67%) Rockwell
7 2 (0.67%) Siemens
7 2 (0.67%) Teradata
7 2 (0.67%) Wonderware
8 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.33%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.33%) Brocade
8 1 (0.33%) CA
8 1 (0.33%) Peregrine
8 1 (0.33%) Telerik
8 1 (0.33%) YouTube