Test Assurance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 816 921 1097
Rank change year-on-year +105 +176 -245
Permanent jobs citing Test Assurance 80 49 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.047% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.049% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 35
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,075 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,813 £37,500 £37,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,737 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £62,847 £43,668 £50,750
90th Percentile £75,625 £68,125 £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +16.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Test Assurance 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
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%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Assurance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Assurance within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +152 74 £57,500 +43.75% 6
UK excluding London +51 73 £36,000 -10.00% 6
South East +58 37 - -
Work from Home +103 33 £33,000 -19.16% 3
South West +19 31 - - 5
London +131 3 £62,500 -9.09%
Scotland -63 2 £43,487 -
East of England - 2 - -
West Midlands +24 1 £36,000 -10.00%
Midlands +5 1 £36,000 -10.00%

Test Assurance
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 (5.00%) TWiki
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.25%) SAP GTS
1 1 (1.25%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.25%) SAP SD
1 1 (1.25%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.75%) Azure
2 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.25%) AWS
3 1 (1.25%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (43.75%) 5G
1 35 (43.75%) SD-WAN
1 35 (43.75%) WAN
2 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (30.00%) Selenium
2 10 (12.50%) TestRail
3 5 (6.25%) LabVIEW
4 4 (5.00%) eggPlant
4 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.50%) Postman
6 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.25%) GitLab
6 1 (1.25%) JIRA
6 1 (1.25%) JUnit
6 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 32 (40.00%) Aerospace
3 23 (28.75%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (21.25%) Electronics
6 14 (17.50%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (13.75%) Finance
8 9 (11.25%) Retail
9 4 (5.00%) Marketing
10 1 (1.25%) French Language
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Automation Tester
1 23 (28.75%) Tester
2 14 (17.50%) RF Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Lead
4 11 (13.75%) Analyst
5 10 (12.50%) Project Leader
5 10 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 10 (12.50%) Technical Project Leader
5 10 (12.50%) Test Analyst
6 9 (11.25%) GNSS Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Developer
7 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
7 7 (8.75%) FPGA Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Software Project Leader
8 5 (6.25%) Graduate
8 5 (6.25%) Product Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior
8 5 (6.25%) Verification Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) EDI
1 1 (1.25%) Gherkin
1 1 (1.25%) Kafka
1 1 (1.25%) React
1 1 (1.25%) REST
1 1 (1.25%) Spring
1 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) GNSS
2 15 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (12.50%) FPGA
4 7 (8.75%) MicroBlaze
4 7 (8.75%) Robotics
4 7 (8.75%) VHDL
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Windows
2 12 (15.00%) Linux
3 5 (6.25%) Unix
4 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (95.00%) Test Automation
2 54 (67.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 43 (53.75%) Mentoring
4 37 (46.25%) Actionable Insight
4 37 (46.25%) Agile
5 36 (45.00%) B2B
6 31 (38.75%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (33.75%) Test Scripting
8 24 (30.00%) Coaching
9 23 (28.75%) Collaborative Working
9 23 (28.75%) Technical Analysis
10 21 (26.25%) Computer Science
10 21 (26.25%) Creative Thinking
10 21 (26.25%) Defect Tracking
11 20 (25.00%) Project Delivery
12 19 (23.75%) Requirements Gathering
13 15 (18.75%) Project Management
14 14 (17.50%) Innovative Thinking
14 14 (17.50%) Signal Processing
14 14 (17.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) C++
2 15 (18.75%) MATLAB
3 11 (13.75%) Perl
4 9 (11.25%) Python
5 7 (8.75%) C
5 7 (8.75%) Tcl
5 7 (8.75%) VB
6 4 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) Java
7 2 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (46.25%) Security Cleared
2 31 (38.75%) DV Cleared
3 30 (37.50%) Degree
4 11 (13.75%) ISTQB
5 10 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (6.25%) HND
6 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (51.25%) QA
2 14 (17.50%) PMO
3 3 (3.75%) JTAG
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Embedded Firmware
1 7 (8.75%) Firmware
2 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Altera
1 7 (8.75%) Green Hills
1 7 (8.75%) Motorola
1 7 (8.75%) Xilinx
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (1.25%) BT
4 1 (1.25%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.25%) HP
4 1 (1.25%) Splunk