Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Smoke Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Smoke Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 905 955 1160
Rank change year-on-year +50 +205 -299
Permanent jobs citing Smoke Testing 9 9 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.009% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.009% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 34
10th Percentile £42,000 £31,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £35,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -36.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,125 £40,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £43,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Smoke 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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smoke Testing in the UK

Smoke Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Smoke Testing in the UK

Smoke Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Smoke Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Smoke Testing in the UK

Smoke 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 Smoke Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +103 8 £60,000 +71.43% 3
Work from Home +76 5 £60,000 +50.00% 1
London - 4 £76,250 - 1
UK excluding London -16 2 £45,000 +28.57% 1
North of England - 2 £45,000 -
North West - 2 £45,000 -

Smoke 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) dbt
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Fivetran
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
3 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (22.22%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Health Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Support Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Swagger
2 1 (11.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Performance Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Regression Testing
3 4 (44.44%) API Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Functional Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Usability Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Stress Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Management
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
5 2 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Guidewire
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAI
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle