Senior Test Engineer Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Test Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Test Engineer
Rank 779 799 789
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 83 99 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.077% 0.082% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.087% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 63 93 76
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £32,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £63,500 £57,500 £78,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Senior Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the UK.

Senior Test Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior Test Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Test Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Average Salary
Last 3 Months		 Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -9 64 £45,000 +12.50%
London +40 28 £55,000 +10.00%
East of England +7 15 £42,500 -
Scotland +2 13 £150,000 +287.09%
Essex +25 9 - -
Edinburgh +13 8 - -
South East -21 8 £42,500 +6.25%
South West +7 6 £38,250 +2.00%
Flintshire - 6 £37,000 -
Deeside - 6 £37,000 -
North Wales - 6 £37,000 -
Wales - 6 £37,000 -
Basildon -7 5 - -
City of London +9 4 £57,500 -
Fife +3 4 £150,000 +300.00%
Hertfordshire 0 4 £43,750 +9.37%
Oxfordshire -9 4 £45,000 +28.57%
Yorkshire -16 4 £40,000 +14.28%
West Yorkshire -17 4 £40,000 +14.28%
Leeds -30 4 £40,000 +14.28%
Bristol -6 3 £40,000 +6.66%
Glenrothes - 3 £150,000 -
Somerset - 3 £38,000 -
Cambridgeshire +4 2 £40,500 +1.25%
Buckinghamshire -7 2 £36,000 +0.69%
Stevenage - 2 £43,750 -
Bath - 2 £38,000 -
Cambridge +8 1 - -
Warwickshire +7 1 £32,500 +8.33%
Reading +3 1 £40,000 -11.11%

Senior Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Test Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Senior Test Engineer in their job title.

1 90 (45.69%) QA
2 62 (31.47%) Java
3 53 (26.90%) Selenium
4 51 (25.89%) Agile Software Development
5 50 (25.38%) Test Automation
6 49 (24.87%) Automated Testing
7 47 (23.86%) Software Testing
8 44 (22.34%) SQL
8 44 (22.34%) .NET
9 40 (20.30%) Degree
10 39 (19.80%) C#
10 39 (19.80%) Scrum
10 39 (19.80%) ISEB
11 36 (18.27%) Test Scripting
12 33 (16.75%) TDD
12 33 (16.75%) BDD
13 31 (15.74%) C++
14 28 (14.21%) SQL Server
14 28 (14.21%) OO
14 28 (14.21%) Python
14 28 (14.21%) Microsoft
14 28 (14.21%) ISTQB
15 27 (13.71%) Linux
16 25 (12.69%) JMeter
17 22 (11.17%) JIRA
17 22 (11.17%) Finance
18 21 (10.66%) UNIX
19 20 (10.15%) Ant
20 19 (9.645%) PHP
20 19 (9.645%) Cucumber

Senior Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Test Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Senior Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 44 (22.34%) .NET
2 17 (8.629%) XML
3 16 (8.122%) Web Services
4 13 (6.599%) .NET Framework
5 7 (3.553%) Gherkin
5 7 (3.553%) WCF
5 7 (3.553%) WPF
6 6 (3.046%) Middleware
7 5 (2.538%) soapUI
7 5 (2.538%) XSD
8 3 (1.523%) J2EE
9 2 (1.015%) JSON
10 1 (0.508%) CSS
10 1 (0.508%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 14 (7.107%) Apache
2 12 (6.091%) Confluence
3 9 (4.569%) Tomcat
4 6 (3.046%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.015%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.015%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (4.569%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.523%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.015%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.599%) Internet
2 11 (5.584%) HTTP
3 4 (2.030%) WCDMA
3 4 (2.030%) LTE
4 3 (1.523%) Wireless
4 3 (1.523%) FTP
4 3 (1.523%) UMTS
4 3 (1.523%) DNS
4 3 (1.523%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.523%) SSL
4 3 (1.523%) GPRS
4 3 (1.523%) GSM
5 1 (0.508%) UWB
5 1 (0.508%) NAS
5 1 (0.508%) HSPA
5 1 (0.508%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.508%) 3G
5 1 (0.508%) ISUP
5 1 (0.508%) INAP
5 1 (0.508%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.569%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (3.553%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (3.046%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.015%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.015%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.508%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.508%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (26.90%) Selenium
2 25 (12.69%) JMeter
3 22 (11.17%) JIRA
4 20 (10.15%) Ant
5 19 (9.645%) Cucumber
6 13 (6.599%) Team Foundation Server
6 13 (6.599%) WebDriver
6 13 (6.599%) LabVIEW
6 13 (6.599%) Xcode
7 12 (6.091%) Visual Studio
8 8 (4.061%) QuickTest Pro
8 8 (4.061%) Mercurial
8 8 (4.061%) Jenkins
8 8 (4.061%) Robotium
9 7 (3.553%) Maven
9 7 (3.553%) Carbide.c++
10 6 (3.046%) Bugzilla
10 6 (3.046%) Behat
11 4 (2.030%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.030%) FitNesse
General
1 22 (11.17%) Finance
2 17 (8.629%) Electronics
3 13 (6.599%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (6.091%) Retail
5 11 (5.584%) Aerospace
6 10 (5.076%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.061%) Advertising
7 8 (4.061%) Games
7 8 (4.061%) Military
8 6 (3.046%) Publishing
9 5 (2.538%) Banking
10 3 (1.523%) Marketing
10 3 (1.523%) Legal
11 2 (1.015%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.015%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.015%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.508%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.508%) Music
12 1 (0.508%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.508%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.584%) Mobile App
2 7 (3.553%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 7 (3.553%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.553%) Client/Server
3 6 (3.046%) EPoS
3 6 (3.046%) Derivative
3 6 (3.046%) Computer Science
4 5 (2.538%) Statistics
5 4 (2.030%) Equities
5 4 (2.030%) Digital Media
5 4 (2.030%) Open Source
6 3 (1.523%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.523%) Mathematics
7 2 (1.015%) Replication
7 2 (1.015%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.015%) SWIFT
8 1 (0.508%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.508%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.508%) Streaming Music
8 1 (0.508%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.71%) Linux
2 21 (10.66%) UNIX
3 15 (7.614%) Windows
4 9 (4.569%) Android
5 8 (4.061%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.015%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.015%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.508%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.89%) Agile Software Development
2 50 (25.38%) Test Automation
3 49 (24.87%) Automated Testing
4 47 (23.86%) Software Testing
5 39 (19.80%) Scrum
6 36 (18.27%) Test Scripting
7 33 (16.75%) TDD
7 33 (16.75%) BDD
8 28 (14.21%) OO
9 19 (9.645%) Automation Testing
10 18 (9.137%) Web Testing
11 17 (8.629%) User Acceptance Testing
12 16 (8.122%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (8.122%) Manual Testing
12 16 (8.122%) Waterfall
13 14 (7.107%) Performance Testing
13 14 (7.107%) Software Engineering
14 13 (6.599%) Test Strategy
15 11 (5.584%) V-Model
16 10 (5.076%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.47%) Java
2 44 (22.34%) SQL
3 39 (19.80%) C#
4 31 (15.74%) C++
5 28 (14.21%) Python
6 19 (9.645%) PHP
7 14 (7.107%) C
8 12 (6.091%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.091%) VB
9 10 (5.076%) Ruby
10 8 (4.061%) VBScript
10 8 (4.061%) Perl
11 5 (2.538%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.015%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.508%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.508%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.508%) VBA
13 1 (0.508%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (20.30%) Degree
2 39 (19.80%) ISEB
3 28 (14.21%) ISTQB
4 9 (4.569%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.061%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.553%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.046%) HND
8 2 (1.015%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.508%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.508%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.508%) CCNP
9 1 (0.508%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (45.69%) QA
2 3 (1.523%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (1.015%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (7.107%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (3.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.599%) HP
3 10 (5.076%) Guidewire
3 10 (5.076%) FINEOS
4 4 (2.030%) Oracle
5 3 (1.523%) Agilent
6 2 (1.015%) VMware
7 1 (0.508%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 1 (0.508%) Apple
7 1 (0.508%) IBM
7 1 (0.508%) Fidessa
Senior Software Test Engineer
Dunfermline, Fife
up to £38K DOE + excellent benefits - Dunfermline - Auto / QTP Our client is one of the most respected organisations in Fife and is looking for an experienced and technically...
Search Consultancy
Salary: excellent benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Senior Software Test Engineer (QA) x2
Bristol, Avon
Our client is looking to employ 2 senior QA Test Engineers... Previous experience working with complex databases and writing SQL for test purposes is also expected. Testing within...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Senior Software Test Engineer
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
You will be designing, running and reporting test cases. A familiarity with bug reporting and test tools is essential. Knowledge of at least one scripting language would be...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £41000 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
Lead/Senior Software Test Engineer
Dunfermline, Fife
You will ideally hold an HND/HNC/Degree educated in Computer Science, Engineering or Similar discipline. You will be able to demonstrate strong background in a software testing...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £380000 per annum + Good benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Senior Test Support Engineer
London
An exciting new position has become available for a leading Media company based in London-This is a very niche requirement as they are looking for someone who...
OPUS
Salary: GBP50000 to GBP55000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Senior Software Test Engineer
City, London
You will be working on CMS projects in an exciting and fast-paced agile environment. The right candidate will have: - 6 years + experience in testing - Manual and Automated...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + pension and bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
Senior Software Tools Test Engineer - tools, GUI, Windows, GNU UNIX, test scripts, automated, ISEB, Cambridge, to c£46k + benefits
Cambridge, East Anglia
Senior Software Tools Test Engineer - GUI applications, Windows, GNU Linux, test scripts, automated test systems, ISEB... - ISEB Foundation certificate in software testing holder. - Good understanding of C / C++...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£46k + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
(Senior) Software Test Engineer - Audio, DSP, Perl / Python / TCL, Assembly, Cambridge, c£30k to £45k + Benefits
Cambridge, East Anglia
Key responsibilities will include writing test scripts; debugging DSP assembly code; contribute to the internal test systems; investigate software defects and root causes; and create relevant documentation... Requirements: -...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: c£30k to c£45k + benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
Senior Software Test Analyst / Engineer - Python, test, analyst, engineer, software, hardware, scripting, Cambridge, to £45k + benefits
Cambridge, East Anglia
This growing network technology company develops innovative consumer electronics products for clients worldwide. Due to continued growth they are seeking a Senior Test Engineer with experience and enthusiasm...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £45k + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
QA Test Engineer / Senior Tester - Start-up
London
You will define the QA and test processes including building continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins); an automated test framework (Selenium or similar) and develop test scripts within a...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
QA Test Engineer / Senior Tester - Start-up
London
You will define the QA and test processes including building continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins); an automated test framework (Selenium or similar) and develop test scripts within a...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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