Test Engineer Jobs in the South East

Test Engineer
England > South East

The median Test Engineer salary in the South East is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 287 321
Rank change year-on-year -8 +34 -80
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 98 118 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.79% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.87% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 56 69 120
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,166 £39,166 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £50,000 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £81,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,681 13,534 19,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.52% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,335 8,483 12,615
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Hampshire -26 42 £45,000 +8.43% 28
Thames Valley +16 29 £37,500 -16.67% 20
Buckinghamshire +3 18 - - 11
Surrey -4 12 £47,500 -36.67% 8
Oxfordshire +2 8 £42,500 +13.33% 2
Sussex - 7 £40,000 -
West Sussex +33 3 - -
Berkshire +19 3 £34,000 -32.00% 7
Kent -3 3 £30,000 -47.83% 1
East Sussex +20 2 £50,000 +5.26%
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 South East region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (36.73%) Test Automation
2 35 (35.71%) Software Testing
3 31 (31.63%) Degree
4 27 (27.55%) Agile
5 23 (23.47%) Electronics
5 23 (23.47%) Test Scripting
6 21 (21.43%) QA
7 18 (18.37%) Python
8 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (16.33%) C#
8 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
9 15 (15.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (13.27%) Software Engineering
10 13 (13.27%) C
10 13 (13.27%) Computer Science
11 12 (12.24%) Coaching
12 11 (11.22%) Selenium
13 10 (10.20%) LTE
13 10 (10.20%) Data Management
13 10 (10.20%) Retail
13 10 (10.20%) Telecoms
13 10 (10.20%) Manufacturing
13 10 (10.20%) LabVIEW
13 10 (10.20%) Bluetooth
13 10 (10.20%) GSM
13 10 (10.20%) ISDN
13 10 (10.20%) PSTN
13 10 (10.20%) UMTS
13 10 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (10.20%) Wireless

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.06%) Azure
1 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (3.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.20%) 5G
1 10 (10.20%) Bluetooth
1 10 (10.20%) GSM
1 10 (10.20%) ISDN
1 10 (10.20%) LTE
1 10 (10.20%) PSTN
1 10 (10.20%) UMTS
1 10 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
1 10 (10.20%) Wireless
2 4 (4.08%) Network Security
2 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Selenium
2 10 (10.20%) LabVIEW
3 7 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.14%) JIRA
4 6 (6.12%) Cucumber
4 6 (6.12%) JBehave
4 6 (6.12%) SpecFlow
4 6 (6.12%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.04%) JMeter
5 2 (2.04%) Postman
6 1 (1.02%) Protractor
6 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.02%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (23.47%) Electronics
2 15 (15.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (10.20%) Manufacturing
3 10 (10.20%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Retail
3 10 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Military
5 6 (6.12%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.12%) Marketing
6 3 (3.06%) Legal
7 2 (2.04%) Games
8 1 (1.02%) Avionics
8 1 (1.02%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.10%) .NET
3 4 (4.08%) Middleware
4 3 (3.06%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.02%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.02%) Node.js
5 1 (1.02%) Playwright
5 1 (1.02%) Puppeteer
5 1 (1.02%) REST
5 1 (1.02%) Swagger
5 1 (1.02%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Acoustics
1 10 (10.20%) Satnav
2 6 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.12%) Renewable Energy
2 6 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.06%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.06%) Chip and PIN
3 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.06%) Robotics
4 1 (1.02%) Animation
4 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.73%) Test Automation
2 35 (35.71%) Software Testing
3 27 (27.55%) Agile
4 23 (23.47%) Test Scripting
5 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.27%) Computer Science
6 13 (13.27%) Software Engineering
7 12 (12.24%) Coaching
8 10 (10.20%) Critical Thinking
8 10 (10.20%) Data Management
9 9 (9.18%) CI/CD
9 9 (9.18%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (9.18%) DevOps
9 9 (9.18%) Regression Testing
10 8 (8.16%) Manual Testing
11 7 (7.14%) BDD
11 7 (7.14%) Mathematics
11 7 (7.14%) Physics
12 6 (6.12%) Test Strategy
13 5 (5.10%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.37%) Python
2 16 (16.33%) C#
3 13 (13.27%) C
4 9 (9.18%) Embedded C
5 4 (4.08%) Bash
5 4 (4.08%) C++
5 4 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.04%) Java
6 2 (2.04%) SQL
7 1 (1.02%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (31.63%) Degree
2 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.10%) DBS Check
5 4 (4.08%) ISTQB
6 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.16%) Firmware
2 3 (3.06%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (3.06%) Conga
1 3 (3.06%) EMC
1 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
1 3 (3.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 3 (3.06%) Thales
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft