Software Testing Jobs in Yorkshire

Software Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 65 146
Rank change year-on-year -56 +81 -66
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 104 425 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.80% 5.06% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 5.17% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 73 79 92
10th Percentile £26,100 £31,250 £27,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £33,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,000 £60,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £69,000 £67,125
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +3.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Software Testing 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 advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,867 8,213 6,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.36% 97.81% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,718 3,559 4,625
10th Percentile £27,451 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Yorkshire +21 62 £56,482 +12.96% 14
South Yorkshire -45 20 £28,000 -42.91% 6
North Yorkshire -20 11 £52,500 - 6
East Yorkshire - 1 £30,000 - 1
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.69%) Confluence
1 8 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.15%) Azure
2 17 (16.35%) AWS
3 8 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (7.69%) GCP
3 8 (7.69%) Slack
4 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.88%) GitHub
6 3 (2.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.92%) SaaS
7 2 (1.92%) Serverless
7 2 (1.92%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.96%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.96%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.54%) 3G
1 12 (11.54%) 4G
1 12 (11.54%) MQTT
1 12 (11.54%) RS-485
1 12 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
1 12 (11.54%) Wireless
2 7 (6.73%) Internet
3 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.96%) Firewall
4 1 (0.96%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 8 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.96%) MySQL
6 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (17.31%) JIRA
1 18 (17.31%) Selenium
2 10 (9.62%) Cucumber
2 10 (9.62%) Git
2 10 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.65%) JUnit
3 9 (8.65%) Postman
4 8 (7.69%) CircleCI
4 8 (7.69%) GitLab
5 6 (5.77%) JMeter
5 6 (5.77%) LoadRunner
6 5 (4.81%) HP UFT
6 5 (4.81%) MSTest
6 5 (4.81%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (3.85%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (2.88%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.92%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.96%) Appium
10 1 (0.96%) Hudson
10 1 (0.96%) PHPUnit
General
1 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.54%) Finance
2 12 (11.54%) Mandarin Language
3 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.69%) Banking
4 8 (7.69%) Marketing
5 6 (5.77%) Electronics
5 6 (5.77%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.77%) Retail
6 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.96%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (20.19%) Senior
2 16 (15.38%) Analyst
3 15 (14.42%) Lead
3 15 (14.42%) Software Engineer
3 15 (14.42%) Test Engineer
4 12 (11.54%) Embedded Engineer
4 12 (11.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Applications Support
5 9 (8.65%) Applications Support Analyst
5 9 (8.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 9 (8.65%) Support Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Developer
7 7 (6.73%) Software Test Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Firmware Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Graduate
9 5 (4.81%) Engineering Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Software Engineering Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Software Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Software Tester
9 5 (4.81%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.42%) REST
2 9 (8.65%) .NET
2 9 (8.65%) RESTful
3 7 (6.73%) Web Services
4 5 (4.81%) Gherkin
4 5 (4.81%) HTML
5 4 (3.85%) XML
5 4 (3.85%) XSLT
6 3 (2.88%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.88%) ADO
6 3 (2.88%) Node.js
7 1 (0.96%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.96%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.96%) Behat
7 1 (0.96%) CSS
7 1 (0.96%) Laravel
7 1 (0.96%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.96%) pytest
7 1 (0.96%) React
7 1 (0.96%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.81%) NHS
4 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.92%) EPoS
7 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.23%) Linux
2 12 (11.54%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (7.69%) Unix
4 6 (5.77%) Windows
5 3 (2.88%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.92%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.96%) Android
7 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (48.08%) Agile
2 49 (47.12%) Test Automation
3 29 (27.88%) Coaching
3 29 (27.88%) Software Engineering
4 23 (22.12%) Mentoring
5 22 (21.15%) DevOps
6 19 (18.27%) CI/CD
7 18 (17.31%) Regression Testing
8 17 (16.35%) BDD
8 17 (16.35%) Roadmaps
9 14 (13.46%) Computer Science
9 14 (13.46%) Project Management
10 13 (12.50%) Test Scripting
11 12 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (11.54%) OO
11 12 (11.54%) OOD
11 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (11.54%) User Experience
12 11 (10.58%) Microservices
13 10 (9.62%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.88%) SQL
2 22 (21.15%) JavaScript
3 18 (17.31%) C
4 12 (11.54%) C#
4 12 (11.54%) C++
5 10 (9.62%) Python
6 5 (4.81%) Java
7 4 (3.85%) Groovy
8 3 (2.88%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.92%) PHP
10 1 (0.96%) Bash
10 1 (0.96%) JCL
10 1 (0.96%) REXX
10 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (24.04%) Degree
2 9 (8.65%) ISTQB
2 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.81%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (3.85%) CIPD
5 4 (3.85%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.92%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.23%) GDPR
2 13 (12.50%) QA
3 10 (9.62%) Accessibility
4 9 (8.65%) WCAG
5 8 (7.69%) PSD2
6 2 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.77%) Firmware
2 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.85%) VMware Server
3 2 (1.92%) Docker
4 1 (0.96%) NFS
4 1 (0.96%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.92%) Terraform
2 1 (0.96%) Ansible
2 1 (0.96%) Grafana
2 1 (0.96%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.96%) Puppet
2 1 (0.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.54%) Google
3 8 (7.69%) Duck Creek
4 4 (3.85%) SAP
4 4 (3.85%) Splunk
4 4 (3.85%) VMware
5 2 (1.92%) Adobe
5 2 (1.92%) Dell
6 1 (0.96%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.96%) Brocade
6 1 (0.96%) BT
6 1 (0.96%) CA
6 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.96%) IBM
6 1 (0.96%) New Relic