Senior Tester Jobs in the South West

Senior Tester
England > South West

The median Senior Tester salary in the South West is £44,674 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 278 301
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester 2 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.022% 0.027% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.030% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 15
10th Percentile £40,162 - £41,750
25th Percentile £41,385 £42,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,674 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -21.74% +35.29%
75th Percentile £49,212 £47,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £51,185 - £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +36.36% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,646 6,610 7,595
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.14% 89.69% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,395 4,001 5,136
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.09%

Senior Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Tester in the South West

Senior Tester
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Tester in the South West.

Salary trend for Senior Tester in the South West

Senior Tester
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Tester in the South West over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Tester in the South West

Senior Tester
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 Senior Tester within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bristol - 1 £39,347 -
Senior Tester
England

Senior Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Senior 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 West region featuring Senior Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby

Senior Tester Skill Set
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA