Test Engineer
UK

The median Test Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 447 465
Rank change year-on-year -85 +18 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 397 700 1,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.67% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.73% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 236 458 786
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer 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
UK excluding London -36 351 £45,000 -10.00% 184
England -78 318 £45,000 -18.18% 202
Work from Home -108 112 £45,996 -16.37% 56
South East +3 95 £45,000 - 64
Midlands -14 60 £42,500 -22.02% 22
East of England +44 55 £45,000 -30.77% 38
South West -22 52 £52,500 +1.94% 33
West Midlands -1 47 £42,500 -22.73% 18
North of England +12 35 £42,500 -15.00% 20
Scotland -69 32 £45,000 - 10
London -68 22 £65,000 +13.04% 28
Yorkshire +63 19 £38,750 -13.89% 8
Wales +14 15 £42,000 +13.51% 5
North West +14 14 £45,000 -10.00% 11
East Midlands -11 13 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Northern Ireland +34 5 £35,000 - 1
North East -13 2 £57,965 +1.69% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 199 (50.13%) Test Automation
2 142 (35.77%) Software Testing
3 129 (32.49%) Agile
4 98 (24.69%) Degree
5 74 (18.64%) Python
6 72 (18.14%) Social Skills
7 71 (17.88%) QA
8 67 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (16.12%) Test Scripting
10 54 (13.60%) Regression Testing
11 53 (13.35%) Electronics
12 52 (13.10%) JIRA
12 52 (13.10%) DevOps
13 49 (12.34%) CI/CD
14 48 (12.09%) Selenium
14 48 (12.09%) Manual Testing
15 47 (11.84%) Security Cleared
15 47 (11.84%) C#
16 46 (11.59%) Computer Science
17 45 (11.34%) Microsoft
17 45 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
17 45 (11.34%) Test Strategy
18 43 (10.83%) API Testing
18 43 (10.83%) SQL
19 42 (10.58%) Software Engineering
20 41 (10.33%) ISTQB
21 40 (10.08%) Continuous Integration
21 40 (10.08%) Git
22 39 (9.82%) Azure
22 39 (9.82%) Windows

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 27 (6.80%) Confluence
2 2 (0.50%) MTS
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.26%) Simulink
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (9.82%) Azure
2 29 (7.30%) AWS
3 20 (5.04%) GitHub
4 12 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (1.76%) GCP
7 6 (1.51%) Datadog
7 6 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.51%) SaaS
7 6 (1.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.26%) PaaS
9 4 (1.01%) Cloud Composer
9 4 (1.01%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (1.01%) dbt
9 4 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.01%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.50%) Serverless
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.54%) Wireless
2 18 (4.53%) Bluetooth
2 18 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.77%) 5G
4 10 (2.52%) GSM
4 10 (2.52%) ISDN
4 10 (2.52%) LTE
4 10 (2.52%) PSTN
4 10 (2.52%) UMTS
5 8 (2.02%) Ethernet
6 7 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.26%) Internet
7 5 (1.26%) Network Security
8 4 (1.01%) FlexRay
8 4 (1.01%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.76%) DHCP
9 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.50%) 3G
11 1 (0.25%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.26%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.26%) Redis
5 4 (1.01%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.01%) Tableau
6 3 (0.76%) MySQL
7 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (13.10%) JIRA
2 48 (12.09%) Selenium
3 40 (10.08%) Git
4 31 (7.81%) Postman
5 28 (7.05%) LabVIEW
6 20 (5.04%) JMeter
7 19 (4.79%) Appium
8 18 (4.53%) Cypress.io
8 18 (4.53%) Jenkins
9 17 (4.28%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.28%) MSTest
10 15 (3.78%) Bitbucket
11 13 (3.27%) SpecFlow
12 12 (3.02%) Visual Studio
13 11 (2.77%) SoapUI
13 11 (2.77%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (2.77%) UI Automator
14 10 (2.52%) GitLab
14 10 (2.52%) JBehave
14 10 (2.52%) JUnit
General
1 72 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.35%) Electronics
3 45 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.57%) Automotive
5 32 (8.06%) Manufacturing
6 30 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (5.29%) Finance
8 18 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (4.28%) Retail
10 13 (3.27%) Aerospace
11 12 (3.02%) Military
12 11 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.52%) Marketing
13 10 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (2.27%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.01%) Legal
16 4 (1.01%) Welsh Language
17 3 (0.76%) Games
18 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.79%) .NET
2 13 (3.27%) Gherkin
2 13 (3.27%) XML
3 12 (3.02%) pytest
4 10 (2.52%) HTML
5 9 (2.27%) Playwright
5 9 (2.27%) SOAP
6 7 (1.76%) Node.js
6 7 (1.76%) REST
7 6 (1.51%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (1.51%) WebdriverIO
8 5 (1.26%) CSS
8 5 (1.26%) JSON
8 5 (1.26%) Web Services
9 4 (1.01%) DOM
9 4 (1.01%) Middleware
9 4 (1.01%) OAuth
9 4 (1.01%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.01%) XSLT
10 3 (0.76%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (3.78%) IoT
3 12 (3.02%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (3.02%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.52%) Acoustics
4 10 (2.52%) Satnav
5 9 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.02%) Smartphone
7 7 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.51%) Chip and PIN
8 6 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.26%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.01%) NHS
10 4 (1.01%) Robotics
11 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.76%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.82%) Linux
1 39 (9.82%) Windows
2 19 (4.79%) Unix
3 8 (2.02%) Android
3 8 (2.02%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (50.13%) Test Automation
2 142 (35.77%) Software Testing
3 129 (32.49%) Agile
4 67 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (16.12%) Test Scripting
6 54 (13.60%) Regression Testing
7 52 (13.10%) DevOps
8 49 (12.34%) CI/CD
9 48 (12.09%) Manual Testing
10 46 (11.59%) Computer Science
11 45 (11.34%) Test Strategy
12 43 (10.83%) API Testing
13 42 (10.58%) Software Engineering
14 40 (10.08%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (8.31%) Non-Functional Testing
16 30 (7.56%) Test Management
17 29 (7.30%) Functional Testing
17 29 (7.30%) SDLC
18 28 (7.05%) BDD
18 28 (7.05%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (18.64%) Python
2 47 (11.84%) C#
3 43 (10.83%) SQL
4 34 (8.56%) JavaScript
5 25 (6.30%) Java
6 24 (6.05%) C
7 15 (3.78%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.77%) C++
9 9 (2.27%) Embedded C
9 9 (2.27%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.51%) Groovy
11 5 (1.26%) Bash
12 4 (1.01%) Ruby
12 4 (1.01%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.50%) Go
13 2 (0.50%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 98 (24.69%) Degree
2 47 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 41 (10.33%) ISTQB
4 29 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.53%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.27%) HND
7 12 (3.02%) DBS Check
8 11 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.52%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.27%) HNC
11 8 (2.02%) ISEB
12 5 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.01%) CIPD
13 4 (1.01%) GIAC
13 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.76%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.76%) ISEB Practitioner
14 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.76%) NVQ Level 3
15 2 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (17.88%) QA
2 15 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.52%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.76%) COSHH
4 3 (0.76%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.76%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.76%) JTAG
4 3 (0.76%) MISRA
5 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) HAZOP
System Software
1 12 (3.02%) Firmware
2 8 (2.02%) Docker
3 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.01%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.52%) Grafana
2 6 (1.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.26%) Kibana
4 4 (1.01%) Terraform
5 3 (0.76%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Iperf
6 1 (0.25%) Nmap
6 1 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.27%) Google
3 7 (1.76%) EMC
4 6 (1.51%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.51%) Splunk
4 6 (1.51%) Thales
5 5 (1.26%) Oracle
5 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.26%) VMware
6 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.76%) Conga
6 3 (0.76%) IBM
6 3 (0.76%) Lauterbach
6 3 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.50%) YouTube
8 1 (0.25%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.25%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.25%) Talend