Test Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £35,000 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 145 214 179
Rank change year-on-year +69 -35 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 15 33 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.50% 0.63% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.68% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 29 43
10th Percentile £32,250 - £35,350
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £37,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £41,875 £85,000 £65,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £38,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,893 4,886 4,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.02% 93.30% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,117 2,359 3,162
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,136 £54,882 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.47% +9.76% +5.26%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds +25 14 £35,000 -36.36% 3
Ilkley - 1 £42,500 -
Test Engineer
Yorkshire

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

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 across the West Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Software Testing
1 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 10 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
3 9 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 9 (60.00%) ISTQB
3 9 (60.00%) Defect Management
4 8 (53.33%) Google
4 8 (53.33%) SQL
4 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
5 7 (46.67%) Selenium
6 6 (40.00%) C#
6 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
7 5 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (33.33%) Postman
7 5 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (33.33%) HP UFT
7 5 (33.33%) LoadRunner
7 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
7 5 (33.33%) JMeter
7 5 (33.33%) ITIL
7 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
7 5 (33.33%) Degree
7 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 5 (33.33%) MSTest
7 5 (33.33%) Functional Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Analytics
8 4 (26.67%) Data Transformation

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Composer
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Functions
1 4 (26.67%) dbt
1 4 (26.67%) GCP
1 4 (26.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (26.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) HP UFT
2 5 (33.33%) JMeter
2 5 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 5 (33.33%) MSTest
2 5 (33.33%) Postman
2 5 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (26.67%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
1 4 (26.67%) Gherkin
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
1 4 (26.67%) XML
1 4 (26.67%) XSLT
2 1 (6.67%) Behat
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Software Testing
1 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 9 (60.00%) Defect Management
3 9 (60.00%) Regression Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 5 (33.33%) Functional Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 5 (33.33%) ITIL
4 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 4 (26.67%) BDD
5 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (26.67%) Load Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Mathematics
5 4 (26.67%) Process Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) SOA
5 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) Groovy
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (26.67%) CIPD
3 4 (26.67%) DBS Check
3 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Google
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware