Exploratory Testing Jobs in the South West

Exploratory Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 261 283
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 -11
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 4 5 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.043% 0.074% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.078% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 19
10th Percentile - - £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £50,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +35.14% -22.11%
75th Percentile £51,875 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,250 £56,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £56,549 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.42% +2.82% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Exploratory 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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,760 6,372 7,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.57% 94.43% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,572 3,563 5,004
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,325 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the South West

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the South West.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in the South West

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in the South West

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Gloucestershire -25 2 £52,500 - 2
Wiltshire - 2 £32,500 -
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (50.00%) TestComplete
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) SDLC
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISEB
1 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes