Software Testing Jobs in the South West

Software Testing
England > South West

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 78 72
Rank change year-on-year -89 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 138 258 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.49% 3.72% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.94% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 92 93 197
10th Percentile £29,775 £26,250 £32,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,218 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,125 £76,950 £69,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.55% +1.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Software 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 7,762 6,551 7,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.01% 94.49% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 3,653 5,037
10th Percentile £28,600 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,270 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,275
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%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the South West

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in the South West

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the South West

Software 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 Software Testing within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol -45 50 £52,500 +5.00% 18
Wiltshire -14 26 £46,000 +15.00% 11
Gloucestershire -35 22 £52,500 -7.49% 14
Dorset -27 19 £32,875 -42.83% 5
Devon -5 11 £40,000 +55.01% 3
Somerset -10 3 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Cornwall -24 1 £25,000 -9.09% 1
Software Testing
England

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.80%) Confluence
2 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.90%) Simulink
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.42%) Azure
2 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (3.62%) GCP
2 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.90%) AWS
4 3 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.17%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.17%) Power Automate
4 3 (2.17%) SaaS
5 2 (1.45%) GitHub
6 1 (0.72%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.72%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) Network Security
2 2 (1.45%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.45%) RS-232
2 2 (1.45%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.45%) VPN
2 2 (1.45%) Wireless
3 1 (0.72%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.72%) HTTP
3 1 (0.72%) Internet
3 1 (0.72%) LAN
3 1 (0.72%) SAN
3 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.72%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.90%) Big Data
2 4 (2.90%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.90%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.90%) Flink
2 4 (2.90%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (18.12%) JIRA
2 18 (13.04%) Git
3 7 (5.07%) LabVIEW
3 7 (5.07%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (4.35%) Selenium
4 6 (4.35%) Subversion
4 6 (4.35%) Visual Studio
5 5 (3.62%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.62%) Eclipse
5 5 (3.62%) Rational Rhapsody
6 4 (2.90%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (2.90%) WebDriver
7 3 (2.17%) NetBeans
7 3 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.45%) Appium
8 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.45%) JMeter
8 2 (1.45%) MSI
8 2 (1.45%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.45%) TestRail
General
1 35 (25.36%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (12.32%) Aerospace
5 14 (10.14%) Finance
6 11 (7.97%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.07%) Aviation
7 7 (5.07%) Military
8 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.62%) Law
10 4 (2.90%) Legal
10 4 (2.90%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.17%) Banking
11 3 (2.17%) Electronics
12 2 (1.45%) Games
12 2 (1.45%) Marketing
12 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.45%) Retail
12 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (17.39%) Developer
2 18 (13.04%) Test Engineer
3 15 (10.87%) Software Engineer
4 14 (10.14%) Systems Engineer
5 13 (9.42%) Software Developer
6 11 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Software Test Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Tester
7 10 (7.25%) Lead
8 8 (5.80%) Graduate
8 8 (5.80%) Senior
9 7 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Analyst
10 6 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (3.62%) Xamarin Developer
12 4 (2.90%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.14%) .NET
2 7 (5.07%) React
2 7 (5.07%) Vue
3 6 (4.35%) Software Packaging
4 5 (3.62%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.62%) HTML
4 5 (3.62%) Web Services
4 5 (3.62%) WinForms
5 4 (2.90%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.90%) Apache Beam
5 4 (2.90%) CSS
5 4 (2.90%) Playwright
6 3 (2.17%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.17%) Kafka
7 2 (1.45%) XML
8 1 (0.72%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.72%) JSP
8 1 (0.72%) OAuth
8 1 (0.72%) RESTful
8 1 (0.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.52%) Algorithms
1 9 (6.52%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.90%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.17%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.17%) Replication
5 2 (1.45%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.45%) FPGA
5 2 (1.45%) iPhone
5 2 (1.45%) Robotics
6 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.72%) IoT
6 1 (0.72%) PMI
6 1 (0.72%) PropTech
6 1 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.84%) Windows
2 18 (13.04%) Linux
3 8 (5.80%) Android
4 5 (3.62%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.62%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (31.16%) Software Engineering
2 41 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (20.29%) Agile
4 26 (18.84%) Computer Science
5 24 (17.39%) Test Automation
6 15 (10.87%) TDD
7 14 (10.14%) SDLC
8 13 (9.42%) SysML
8 13 (9.42%) User Experience
9 12 (8.70%) Penetration Testing
9 12 (8.70%) Time Management
9 12 (8.70%) UML
9 12 (8.70%) Web Development
10 11 (7.97%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (7.97%) ITIL
11 10 (7.25%) Decision-Making
11 10 (7.25%) Line Management
11 10 (7.25%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.81%) Python
2 22 (15.94%) C#
3 18 (13.04%) Java
4 12 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.52%) MATLAB
5 9 (6.52%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.52%) SQL
6 8 (5.80%) C
7 5 (3.62%) C++
7 5 (3.62%) VB.NET
8 4 (2.90%) Scala
9 3 (2.17%) Bash
9 3 (2.17%) Go
10 2 (1.45%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.45%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.45%) PHP
10 2 (1.45%) Ruby
10 2 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (36.23%) Degree
2 34 (24.64%) Security Cleared
3 23 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 16 (11.59%) ISTQB
5 12 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.62%) Chartered Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.17%) CSPO
9 3 (2.17%) IIBA
9 3 (2.17%) ISEB
9 3 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.72%) HND
10 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.72%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.42%) QA
2 7 (5.07%) DO-254
2 7 (5.07%) IEC 61508
2 7 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.45%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) AQAP
6 1 (0.72%) TickIT
System Software
1 8 (5.80%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (4.35%) Docker
3 3 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.17%) Firmware
4 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (5.80%) SCCM
2 5 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.70%) IBM
3 6 (4.35%) Citrix
3 6 (4.35%) Oracle
4 5 (3.62%) Xamarin
5 4 (2.90%) Rockwell
5 4 (2.90%) Teradata
6 3 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.45%) Apple
7 2 (1.45%) Google
7 2 (1.45%) Keysight
7 2 (1.45%) SAP
8 1 (0.72%) Peregrine