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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 737 705 701
Rank change year-on-year -32 -4 -118
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 25 42 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.073% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.077% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23 35 122
10th Percentile - £34,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £66,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £48,500 £70,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

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 61,611 54,755 69,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.27% 95.52% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,296 28,643 41,264
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 30 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 30 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 +40 8 £45,000 +5.88% 3
Yorkshire +76 5 £45,000 +5.88%
South West -22 5 £40,000 -20.00% 4
Scotland - 5 £35,000 -
North West -1 3 £37,500 -6.25% 3
West Midlands +4 2 £40,000 +14.29% 1
East of England -2 2 £37,500 -25.00% 1
South East -8 2 £42,500 -35.85% 2
Midlands -16 2 £40,000 +21.21% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Selenium
2 5 (20.00%) JIRA
3 4 (16.00%) Appium
3 4 (16.00%) Git
3 4 (16.00%) Postman
3 4 (16.00%) Protractor
3 4 (16.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (16.00%) Visual Studio
3 4 (16.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (8.00%) JMeter
4 2 (8.00%) SoapUI
4 2 (8.00%) TestComplete
5 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
5 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Automotive
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing
3 3 (12.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Tester
2 7 (28.00%) Test Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Software Tester
4 4 (16.00%) Automation Tester
4 4 (16.00%) QA Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Software Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.00%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Software QA Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) CSS
1 6 (24.00%) HTML
2 4 (16.00%) DOM
2 4 (16.00%) XML
3 3 (12.00%) .NET
4 2 (8.00%) Ajax
4 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (8.00%) HTML5
4 2 (8.00%) jQuery
4 2 (8.00%) JSON
4 2 (8.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.00%) MERN Stack
5 1 (4.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) Vue
5 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (72.00%) Agile
3 13 (52.00%) Regression Testing
4 11 (44.00%) Software Testing
5 10 (40.00%) Scrum
6 9 (36.00%) DevOps
6 9 (36.00%) Manual Testing
7 8 (32.00%) Test Scripting
8 7 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (24.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (24.00%) SDLC
10 5 (20.00%) API Testing
10 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (16.00%) BDD
11 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
11 4 (16.00%) Kanban
11 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
11 4 (16.00%) Test Management
11 4 (16.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
3 9 (36.00%) Java
4 7 (28.00%) Python
5 4 (16.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (8.00%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) ISTQB
2 8 (32.00%) ISEB
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) HND
4 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (72.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Firmware
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft