Software Test Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Software Test Engineer
England > North of England

The median Software Test Engineer salary in the North of England is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 432 453
Rank change year-on-year +52 +21 -110
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 10 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.058% 0.011% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.013% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £31,425 £32,750 -
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £50,313
90th Percentile £50,750 £47,250 £57,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.33% +6.84% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,418 15,595 17,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 89.40% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,704 8,271 11,117
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,225
90th Percentile £78,446 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Test Engineer in the North of England

Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Test Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Software Test Engineer in the North of England

Software Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Test Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Test Engineer in the North of England

Software Test Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Test Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +98 7 £35,000 +7.69% 1
North West +7 3 £42,500 -10.53% 1
Software Test Engineer
England

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Software 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 North of England region featuring Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (60.00%) BDD
3 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (60.00%) Postman
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) C#
4 5 (50.00%) HTML
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Gherkin
4 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
5 4 (40.00%) Groovy
5 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
5 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
5 4 (40.00%) VMware Server
5 4 (40.00%) Load Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 4 (40.00%) Python
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (40.00%) Google
5 4 (40.00%) CIPD
5 4 (40.00%) .NET
5 4 (40.00%) Web Services
5 4 (40.00%) XML
5 4 (40.00%) XSLT
5 4 (40.00%) SOA
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Firebase
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Postman
2 4 (40.00%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (30.00%) Selenium
4 2 (20.00%) Git
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
5 1 (10.00%) Appium
5 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (10.00%) GitLab
5 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Agriculture
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 5 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) XSLT
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) Laravel
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) pytest
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (60.00%) BDD
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
5 4 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (40.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
5 4 (40.00%) Load Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
5 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (40.00%) SOA
5 4 (40.00%) Validation
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 1 (10.00%) Agile Testing
8 1 (10.00%) API Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Data Science
8 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Groovy
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CIPD
1 4 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) VMware