Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 408 358
Rank change year-on-year -30 -50 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 358 399 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.66% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.74% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 205 236 443
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £33,666
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,062 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,950 £72,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

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 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
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 £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +2 100 £45,000 - 69
Midlands -15 59 £42,500 -22.73% 19
East of England +49 56 £45,000 -30.77% 26
South West -34 54 £52,500 +1.94% 35
West Midlands -11 47 £42,500 -22.73% 17
North of England +3 35 £42,500 -15.00% 28
Scotland -63 32 £45,000 -3.23% 10
Yorkshire +49 19 £38,750 -13.89% 9
Wales +14 16 £42,500 +14.86% 5
North West +9 14 £45,000 -10.00% 18
East Midlands -8 12 £40,000 -15.79% 2
Northern Ireland +30 5 £35,000 -
North East -12 2 £57,965 +1.69% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 165 (46.09%) Test Automation
2 124 (34.64%) Software Testing
3 111 (31.01%) Agile
4 93 (25.98%) Degree
5 68 (18.99%) Social Skills
6 67 (18.72%) Python
7 64 (17.88%) QA
8 58 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (15.64%) Test Scripting
10 54 (15.08%) Electronics
11 49 (13.69%) Regression Testing
12 43 (12.01%) Manual Testing
12 43 (12.01%) JIRA
13 42 (11.73%) Selenium
13 42 (11.73%) DevOps
14 41 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
14 41 (11.45%) Computer Science
14 41 (11.45%) Security Cleared
14 41 (11.45%) C#
15 40 (11.17%) Microsoft
16 39 (10.89%) SQL
17 38 (10.61%) Automotive
18 37 (10.34%) Software Engineering
19 36 (10.06%) ISTQB
19 36 (10.06%) Git
20 34 (9.50%) Azure
20 34 (9.50%) Windows
20 34 (9.50%) API Testing
20 34 (9.50%) CI/CD
21 33 (9.22%) Linux

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 24 (6.70%) Confluence
2 2 (0.56%) MTS
3 1 (0.28%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.40%) Simulink
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.50%) Azure
2 18 (5.03%) AWS
3 13 (3.63%) GitHub
4 12 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (1.68%) SaaS
6 5 (1.40%) GCP
6 5 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (1.12%) Cloud Composer
7 4 (1.12%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (1.12%) dbt
7 4 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (1.12%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.56%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.56%) Serverless
9 1 (0.28%) Datadog
9 1 (0.28%) Firebase
9 1 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.59%) Wireless
2 18 (5.03%) Bluetooth
2 18 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (2.79%) 5G
3 10 (2.79%) GSM
3 10 (2.79%) ISDN
3 10 (2.79%) LTE
3 10 (2.79%) PSTN
3 10 (2.79%) UMTS
4 8 (2.23%) Ethernet
5 6 (1.68%) Internet
5 6 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.40%) Network Security
7 4 (1.12%) FlexRay
7 4 (1.12%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.84%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.56%) DHCP
10 1 (0.28%) Firewall
10 1 (0.28%) VLAN
10 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.40%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.12%) Tableau
6 2 (0.56%) MySQL
7 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (12.01%) JIRA
2 42 (11.73%) Selenium
3 36 (10.06%) Git
4 26 (7.26%) LabVIEW
5 22 (6.15%) Postman
6 19 (5.31%) Cypress.io
7 18 (5.03%) Appium
8 17 (4.75%) MSTest
9 15 (4.19%) Cucumber
10 14 (3.91%) Bitbucket
11 13 (3.63%) Jenkins
11 13 (3.63%) JMeter
11 13 (3.63%) SpecFlow
11 13 (3.63%) Visual Studio
12 11 (3.07%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (3.07%) UI Automator
13 10 (2.79%) JBehave
14 8 (2.23%) WebDriver
15 7 (1.96%) JUnit
15 7 (1.96%) SoapUI
General
1 68 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.08%) Electronics
3 41 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.61%) Automotive
5 29 (8.10%) Manufacturing
6 25 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (5.87%) Finance
8 17 (4.75%) Retail
9 14 (3.91%) Aerospace
10 13 (3.63%) Military
11 12 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (3.07%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.79%) Marketing
13 10 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.12%) Legal
16 3 (0.84%) Games
17 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.56%) Public Sector
18 1 (0.28%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.19%) .NET
2 13 (3.63%) Gherkin
3 9 (2.51%) HTML
3 9 (2.51%) pytest
3 9 (2.51%) XML
4 6 (1.68%) Playwright
4 6 (1.68%) REST
5 5 (1.40%) CSS
5 5 (1.40%) JSON
5 5 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (1.40%) SOAP
5 5 (1.40%) Web Services
6 4 (1.12%) DOM
6 4 (1.12%) Middleware
6 4 (1.12%) XSLT
7 3 (0.84%) Node.js
7 3 (0.84%) Qt
7 3 (0.84%) RESTful
8 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.56%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.54%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (4.19%) IoT
3 12 (3.35%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.07%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (2.79%) Acoustics
5 10 (2.79%) Satnav
6 7 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.96%) Smartphone
7 6 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.68%) Chip and PIN
7 6 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.12%) NHS
9 4 (1.12%) Robotics
10 3 (0.84%) PCIe
11 2 (0.56%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.56%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.50%) Windows
2 33 (9.22%) Linux
3 15 (4.19%) Unix
4 8 (2.23%) Android
4 8 (2.23%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (46.09%) Test Automation
2 124 (34.64%) Software Testing
3 111 (31.01%) Agile
4 58 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (15.64%) Test Scripting
6 49 (13.69%) Regression Testing
7 43 (12.01%) Manual Testing
8 42 (11.73%) DevOps
9 41 (11.45%) Computer Science
10 37 (10.34%) Software Engineering
11 34 (9.50%) API Testing
11 34 (9.50%) CI/CD
12 31 (8.66%) Continuous Integration
12 31 (8.66%) Test Management
13 30 (8.38%) Test Strategy
14 28 (7.82%) Validation
15 23 (6.42%) Functional Testing
16 22 (6.15%) Non-Functional Testing
17 21 (5.87%) BDD
17 21 (5.87%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 67 (18.72%) Python
2 41 (11.45%) C#
3 39 (10.89%) SQL
4 27 (7.54%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.70%) Java
6 23 (6.42%) C
7 15 (4.19%) MATLAB
8 10 (2.79%) C++
9 9 (2.51%) Embedded C
9 9 (2.51%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.40%) Bash
10 5 (1.40%) Groovy
11 4 (1.12%) Ruby
11 4 (1.12%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 93 (25.98%) Degree
2 41 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.06%) ISTQB
4 24 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.63%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.35%) DBS Check
7 10 (2.79%) HND
8 9 (2.51%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.96%) HNC
10 6 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.40%) ISEB
11 5 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.12%) CIPD
12 4 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.84%) NVQ Level 3
14 2 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 1 (0.28%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (17.88%) QA
2 11 (3.07%) ISO 9001
3 8 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.84%) COSHH
4 3 (0.84%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.84%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.84%) JTAG
4 3 (0.84%) MISRA
5 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) HAZOP
System Software
1 12 (3.35%) Firmware
2 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.12%) VMware Server
4 3 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.84%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.56%) Grafana
2 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Iperf
3 1 (0.28%) Kibana
3 1 (0.28%) Nmap
3 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.79%) Google
3 7 (1.96%) EMC
4 6 (1.68%) Thales
5 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.40%) VMware
6 3 (0.84%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.84%) Conga
6 3 (0.84%) IBM
6 3 (0.84%) Lauterbach
6 3 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.56%) Splunk
8 1 (0.28%) Denodo
8 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) Talend