Test Development Engineer Jobs

Test Development Engineer
UK

The median Test Development Engineer salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 879 899 1057
Rank change year-on-year +20 +158 -272
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Development Engineer 10 79 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.075% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.082% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9 52 63
10th Percentile - £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £55,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% - +21.74%
75th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £71,750 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% - +33.33%

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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Test Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Development Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
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 Development Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +47 10 £40,000 -42.86% 15
UK excluding London -27 10 £40,000 -33.33% 11
Work from Home +60 8 £40,000 -50.00% 4
South East +18 6 £40,000 -33.33% 3
London +95 2 £72,500 -6.45% 3
Yorkshire +85 2 £72,500 +26.09%
North of England +37 2 £72,500 +31.82%
East of England +30 1 - - 1
Midlands -1 1 £62,500 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Test Development 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 Test Development Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Software Testing
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) SDET
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 7 (70.00%) Linux
4 6 (60.00%) Workflow
4 6 (60.00%) AWS
4 6 (60.00%) Ruby
4 6 (60.00%) Life Science
4 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (60.00%) Full Stack Development
4 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (60.00%) Coaching
4 6 (60.00%) Open Source
4 6 (60.00%) Bash
4 6 (60.00%) OpenStack
4 6 (60.00%) GitHub
4 6 (60.00%) IaaS
5 3 (30.00%) C#
6 2 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (20.00%) .NET
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Testing

Test Development 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 6 (60.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) GitHub
2 6 (60.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (10.00%) RS-232
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 1 (10.00%) Electronics
1 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Life Science
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Lidar
3 1 (10.00%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Software Testing
2 8 (80.00%) SDET
2 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (60.00%) Coaching
4 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (60.00%) Full Stack Development
4 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (60.00%) Open Source
4 6 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (60.00%) Workflow
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) BDD
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Physics
6 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Bash
2 6 (60.00%) Ruby
3 3 (30.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) C
5 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft