Compatibility Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Compatibility Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Compatibility Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 984 1190
Rank change year-on-year +116 +206 -304
Permanent jobs citing Compatibility Testing 26 9 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.009% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.009% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 23 8 17
10th Percentile £40,100 £62,375 £47,800
25th Percentile £45,750 £65,661 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,588 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +34.45% -
75th Percentile £51,250 £75,294 £71,250
90th Percentile £53,750 - £86,166
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £62,500 £48,250
% change year-on-year -26.40% +29.53% -8.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Compatibility 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Compatibility Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Compatibility Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Compatibility Testing.

Salary trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Compatibility Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Compatibility Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +136 26 £47,500 -32.71% 4
London +151 16 £47,500 -32.71% 2
Work from Home +93 16 £47,500 -32.71% 2
UK excluding London +5 10 £46,000 -26.40% 2
South West - 8 £46,000 - 2
South East - 2 £47,750 -

Compatibility Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
1 13 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) JIRA
2 8 (30.77%) Selenium
3 7 (26.92%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (7.69%) MSI
5 1 (3.85%) NUnit
5 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (53.85%) Police
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Aerospace
3 8 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (23.08%) Electronics
5 5 (19.23%) Local Government
6 2 (7.69%) Games
6 2 (7.69%) Marketing
7 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Analyst
2 15 (57.69%) Test Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 6 (23.08%) Systems Analyst
4 6 (23.08%) Systems Test Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Software Packaging
2 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
1 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 17 (65.38%) Performance Testing
3 15 (57.69%) Functional Testing
4 14 (53.85%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (50.00%) Backlog Management
5 13 (50.00%) DevOps
5 13 (50.00%) Regression Testing
5 13 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
5 13 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
6 12 (46.15%) Test Automation
7 8 (30.77%) Agile
7 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (30.77%) ITIL
8 7 (26.92%) End-to-End Testing
8 7 (26.92%) Scrum
9 6 (23.08%) Application Virtualisation
9 6 (23.08%) Image Processing
9 6 (23.08%) Load Testing
9 6 (23.08%) Software Distribution
9 6 (23.08%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Degree
2 8 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) ISEB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Firmware
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft App-V
3 6 (23.08%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Google
2 6 (23.08%) Citrix
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft