Software Tester Jobs in the South East

Software Tester
England > South East

The median Software Tester salary in the South East is £45,000 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 369 376 428
Rank change year-on-year +7 +52 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Tester 16 38 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.096% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 13 21 53
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £27,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +3.90%
75th Percentile £45,750 £52,500 £54,000
90th Percentile - £67,500 £60,800
England median annual salary £37,500 £44,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -15.73% +11.25% +6.67%

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 15,620 13,675 18,997
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.62% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,331 8,566 12,620
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Software Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Tester in the South East

Software Tester
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Tester in the South East.

Salary trend for Software Tester in the South East

Software Tester
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 Software Tester within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Surrey +12 7 £45,500 -40.33%
Thames Valley -5 2 £42,500 +17.24% 1
Hampshire -18 2 £37,500 -
Middlesex - 2 £42,500 -
Kent - 2 - -
Berkshire -1 1 - - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £42,500 -
West Sussex - 1 £42,500 -
Software Tester
England

Software Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Software Tester 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 Software Tester in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (81.25%) C#
3 9 (56.25%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (43.75%) .NET
4 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
4 7 (43.75%) Validation
4 7 (43.75%) Degree
4 7 (43.75%) Mathematics
4 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
5 5 (31.25%) Selenium
5 5 (31.25%) Azure
5 5 (31.25%) ISTQB
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
7 3 (18.75%) Exploratory Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Retail
7 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Marketing
7 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
7 3 (18.75%) Web Services
7 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
7 3 (18.75%) BDD
7 3 (18.75%) ISEB

Software Tester 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) eggPlant
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Marketing
1 3 (18.75%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
2 7 (43.75%) Mathematics
2 7 (43.75%) Validation
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (18.75%) BDD
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Exploratory Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) API Testing
6 2 (12.50%) B2B
6 2 (12.50%) B2G
6 2 (12.50%) Defect Management
6 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) ISTQB
3 3 (18.75%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft