Senior Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 692 643 763
Rank change year-on-year -49 +120 -174
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 67 107 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 44 49 64
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,397 £38,325
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £58,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +17.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £59,248 £72,500 £59,589
90th Percentile £62,847 £86,250 £62,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £57,197 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.32% -4.67% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
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 Senior Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East -1 19 £45,000 -42.86% 12
Midlands -11 11 £47,500 -26.92% 2
West Midlands +4 10 £42,500 - 2
North of England +32 9 £57,965 -7.26% 5
East of England +16 9 £45,000 - 7
Wales +12 7 £40,404 -15.83% 2
Scotland -66 7 £45,000 -25.00%
South West -32 5 £51,125 +7.63% 1
North West +3 4 £50,232 -44.19% 4
Yorkshire +75 3 £57,965 -25.21% 1
North East -9 2 £57,965 +3.97%
East Midlands -15 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Senior Test Engineer
UK

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Test Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (32.84%) Test Automation
2 21 (31.34%) Agile
3 15 (22.39%) Manufacturing
3 15 (22.39%) Non-Functional Testing
4 14 (20.90%) Software Testing
5 12 (17.91%) Electronics
6 11 (16.42%) SQL
6 11 (16.42%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (14.93%) Regression Testing
7 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
8 9 (13.43%) C#
8 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
8 9 (13.43%) Azure
8 9 (13.43%) DevOps
9 8 (11.94%) AWS
9 8 (11.94%) QA
9 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
9 8 (11.94%) Scrum
10 7 (10.45%) LabVIEW
10 7 (10.45%) Degree
10 7 (10.45%) Git
10 7 (10.45%) Test Strategy
10 7 (10.45%) Functional Testing
10 7 (10.45%) Mentoring
10 7 (10.45%) Coaching
10 7 (10.45%) Social Skills
10 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
11 6 (8.96%) Accessibility
11 6 (8.96%) Postman
11 6 (8.96%) Context-Driven Testing

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.43%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) AWS
3 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.99%) GCP
3 2 (2.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Firebase
4 1 (1.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Bluetooth
1 4 (5.97%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (5.97%) ZigBee
2 1 (1.49%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.49%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
1 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.46%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
1 7 (10.45%) LabVIEW
2 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 6 (8.96%) MSTest
2 6 (8.96%) Postman
3 5 (7.46%) Selenium
3 5 (7.46%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.99%) JMeter
5 1 (1.49%) Appium
5 1 (1.49%) GitLab
5 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.49%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (22.39%) Manufacturing
2 12 (17.91%) Electronics
3 7 (10.45%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Automotive
5 3 (4.48%) Games
5 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.48%) Military
6 2 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.99%) Finance
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) JSON
1 5 (7.46%) REST
1 5 (7.46%) SOAP
1 5 (7.46%) XML
2 2 (2.99%) .NET
2 2 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.99%) Playwright
3 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.49%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.49%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.49%) pytest
3 1 (1.49%) Swagger
3 1 (1.49%) Web Services
3 1 (1.49%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (1.49%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Management Information System
1 5 (7.46%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.97%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (5.97%) IoT
3 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.49%) Animation
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Lidar
4 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.49%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Android
1 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Unix
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Test Automation
2 21 (31.34%) Agile
3 15 (22.39%) Non-Functional Testing
4 14 (20.90%) Software Testing
5 11 (16.42%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (14.93%) Regression Testing
6 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
7 9 (13.43%) DevOps
8 8 (11.94%) Scrum
9 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.45%) Coaching
9 7 (10.45%) Functional Testing
9 7 (10.45%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.45%) Test Strategy
10 6 (8.96%) Agile Testing
10 6 (8.96%) API Testing
10 6 (8.96%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (8.96%) Context-Driven Testing
10 6 (8.96%) Defect Management
10 6 (8.96%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) SQL
2 9 (13.43%) C#
3 6 (8.96%) Python
4 5 (7.46%) C
4 5 (7.46%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.48%) Java
6 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.49%) Groovy
7 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 5 (7.46%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
2 6 (8.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.48%) Google
3 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.49%) EMC