Senior Test Engineer
UK

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 830 1023
Rank change year-on-year +3 +193 -257
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 75 142 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 51 77 162
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £49,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,197 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.32% -4.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.41% +16.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London -37 66 £45,000 -22.41% 29
England +37 56 £50,000 -10.31% 33
Work from Home +26 26 £57,965 -3.39% 11
South East -10 19 £45,000 -42.86% 11
Midlands -6 11 £47,500 -26.92% 2
West Midlands +16 10 £42,500 - 2
North of England +38 9 £57,965 -7.26% 6
East of England +18 9 £45,000 - 7
Wales +9 7 £40,404 -15.83% 2
Scotland -74 6 £45,000 -25.00%
South West -33 5 £51,125 +7.63% 2
London +83 4 £67,500 +17.39% 3
North West +14 4 £50,232 -44.19% 3
Yorkshire +77 3 £57,965 -25.21% 2
North East -7 2 £57,965 +3.97% 1
East Midlands -16 1 £62,500 -3.85%

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (36.00%) Test Automation
2 25 (33.33%) Agile
3 18 (24.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 17 (22.67%) Manufacturing
5 14 (18.67%) Software Testing
6 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (16.00%) Electronics
7 12 (16.00%) Regression Testing
7 12 (16.00%) SQL
8 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
8 11 (14.67%) DevOps
9 10 (13.33%) QA
9 10 (13.33%) AWS
10 9 (12.00%) Azure
10 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
10 9 (12.00%) C#
10 9 (12.00%) Mentoring
10 9 (12.00%) Coaching
10 9 (12.00%) Accessibility
10 9 (12.00%) Postman
11 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
11 8 (10.67%) Functional Testing
11 8 (10.67%) Test Strategy
11 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
11 8 (10.67%) Scrum
11 8 (10.67%) Git
11 8 (10.67%) JIRA
11 8 (10.67%) Degree
12 7 (9.33%) ISTQB
12 7 (9.33%) Computer Science

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.33%) AWS
2 9 (12.00%) Azure
3 3 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.33%) Firebase
5 1 (1.33%) GCP
5 1 (1.33%) GitHub
5 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Bluetooth
1 4 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (5.33%) ZigBee
2 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.33%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
1 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.67%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.33%) MySQL
4 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Postman
2 8 (10.67%) Git
2 8 (10.67%) JIRA
3 7 (9.33%) LabVIEW
3 7 (9.33%) SoapUI
4 6 (8.00%) MSTest
5 5 (6.67%) Selenium
6 4 (5.33%) JMeter
7 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.33%) Appium
8 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.33%) GitLab
8 1 (1.33%) mountebank
8 1 (1.33%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.33%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.33%) Subversion
8 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (22.67%) Manufacturing
2 12 (16.00%) Electronics
3 7 (9.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Automotive
5 3 (4.00%) Games
5 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.00%) Military
6 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.67%) Finance
6 2 (2.67%) Welsh Language
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) SOAP
1 7 (9.33%) XML
2 6 (8.00%) REST
3 5 (6.67%) JSON
4 3 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.67%) .NET
5 2 (2.67%) OAuth
5 2 (2.67%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.67%) pytest
6 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.33%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.33%) Kafka
6 1 (1.33%) Laravel
6 1 (1.33%) Playwright
6 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.33%) Web Services
6 1 (1.33%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.33%) WireMock
6 1 (1.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.33%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (5.33%) IoT
2 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.33%) Animation
3 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.33%) Lidar
3 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.33%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) Android
2 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.00%) Test Automation
2 25 (33.33%) Agile
3 18 (24.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 14 (18.67%) Software Testing
5 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (16.00%) Regression Testing
7 11 (14.67%) DevOps
7 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
8 9 (12.00%) Coaching
8 9 (12.00%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
9 8 (10.67%) Functional Testing
9 8 (10.67%) Scrum
9 8 (10.67%) Test Strategy
10 7 (9.33%) API Testing
10 7 (9.33%) Computer Science
10 7 (9.33%) Security Testing
11 6 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (8.00%) Context-Driven Testing
11 6 (8.00%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) SQL
2 9 (12.00%) C#
3 7 (9.33%) Python
4 5 (6.67%) C
4 5 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.00%) Java
6 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.33%) Go
7 1 (1.33%) Groovy
7 1 (1.33%) PHP
7 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) Degree
3 7 (9.33%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.67%) GIAC
5 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) QA
2 9 (12.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
1 2 (2.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.67%) Google
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle
4 1 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.33%) EMC