Exploratory Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 734 704 694
Rank change year-on-year -30 -10 -128
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 27 51 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.085% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.089% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 19 43 112
10th Percentile £32,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +19.57% +2.22%
75th Percentile £47,500 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £49,750 £80,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £56,549 £51,500
% change year-on-year -20.42% +9.80% +3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 57,513 66,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.96% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,236 29,661 40,975
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +44 6 £45,000 +5.88% 3
South East -12 6 - - 1
Scotland - 5 £35,000 - 1
Yorkshire +75 4 £45,000 +5.88%
South West -24 4 £36,250 -27.50% 2
East of England +13 2 £37,500 -25.00%
North West +3 2 £37,500 -6.25% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
West Midlands +24 1 £35,000 - 4
Midlands -6 1 £35,000 +6.06% 4
Wales - 1 £57,500 - 1
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Big Data
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
1 2 (7.41%) Tableau
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Selenium
2 7 (25.93%) WebDriver
3 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 5 (18.52%) JMeter
4 4 (14.81%) Appium
4 4 (14.81%) Git
4 4 (14.81%) Protractor
4 4 (14.81%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (14.81%) Visual Studio
5 3 (11.11%) IntelliJ
5 3 (11.11%) Postman
5 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (7.41%) SoapUI
6 2 (7.41%) TestComplete
7 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
7 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Law
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
3 3 (11.11%) Retail
4 2 (7.41%) Automotive
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Tester
2 8 (29.63%) Software Tester
3 6 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Automation Tester
5 3 (11.11%) Test Specialist
6 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) QA Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Test Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Software QA Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) CSS
1 4 (14.81%) DOM
1 4 (14.81%) HTML
2 3 (11.11%) Web Services
3 2 (7.41%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) MERN Stack
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) Vue
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Product Ownership
2 5 (18.52%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.41%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 23 (85.19%) Agile
3 12 (44.44%) Regression Testing
3 12 (44.44%) Scrum
4 10 (37.04%) Software Testing
5 9 (33.33%) DevOps
5 9 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (25.93%) SDLC
6 7 (25.93%) Test Scripting
7 6 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) API Testing
9 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
9 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.81%) Kanban
9 4 (14.81%) Test Management
9 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 7 (25.93%) ISEB
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 2 (7.41%) HND
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (55.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
1 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft