Software Tester Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Tester
England > West Midlands

The median Software Tester salary in the West Midlands is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 176 265
Rank change year-on-year -68 +89 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Tester 3 106 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.041% 1.59% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 1.77% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,650 £23,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -17.65%
75th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
90th Percentile £41,500 - £43,750
England median annual salary £37,500 £44,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -15.73% +11.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,811 5,998 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 89.99% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 3,352 4,771
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,775 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Software Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Software Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Tester in the West Midlands

Software Tester
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Tester in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Software Tester in the West Midlands

Software Tester
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Staffordshire -16 2 £35,000 +12.00%
Software Tester
England

Software Tester Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Software Tester 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Software Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills

Software Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft