Test Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £38,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 257 203
Rank change year-on-year +57 -54 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 19 49 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.33% 0.59% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.65% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 45 50
10th Percentile £32,450 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% - -
75th Percentile £57,118 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,542 £85,000 £63,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 5,501 7,569 6,928
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 91.24% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 3,568 4,692
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,189
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £54,882 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% +9.76% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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 +72 15 £35,000 -36.36% 3
North Yorkshire +47 2 £55,000 +37.50% 5
South Yorkshire +35 1 £57,965 +54.57% 1
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (68.42%) Agile
1 13 (68.42%) Software Testing
1 13 (68.42%) Test Automation
2 11 (57.89%) Defect Management
3 10 (52.63%) ISTQB
3 10 (52.63%) Test Scripting
3 10 (52.63%) Regression Testing
4 9 (47.37%) SQL
5 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
5 8 (42.11%) Google
6 7 (36.84%) Selenium
7 6 (31.58%) C#
7 6 (31.58%) Postman
7 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
8 5 (26.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (26.32%) Data Science
8 5 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (26.32%) BDD
8 5 (26.32%) MSTest
8 5 (26.32%) Gherkin
8 5 (26.32%) Functional Testing
8 5 (26.32%) DevOps
8 5 (26.32%) ITIL
8 5 (26.32%) JMeter
8 5 (26.32%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (26.32%) HP UFT
8 5 (26.32%) LoadRunner
8 5 (26.32%) Performance Testing
8 5 (26.32%) Knowledge Management
8 5 (26.32%) Incident Management

Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
1 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Composer
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Functions
1 4 (21.05%) dbt
1 4 (21.05%) GCP
1 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (21.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (21.05%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Selenium
2 6 (31.58%) Postman
3 5 (26.32%) HP UFT
3 5 (26.32%) JMeter
3 5 (26.32%) LoadRunner
3 5 (26.32%) MSTest
3 5 (26.32%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (21.05%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.26%) Git
5 1 (5.26%) JIRA
5 1 (5.26%) JUnit
5 1 (5.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Agriculture
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Gherkin
2 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) HTML
2 4 (21.05%) Web Services
2 4 (21.05%) XML
2 4 (21.05%) XSLT
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) Behat
3 1 (5.26%) Laravel
3 1 (5.26%) pytest
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) NHS
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Agile
1 13 (68.42%) Software Testing
1 13 (68.42%) Test Automation
2 11 (57.89%) Defect Management
3 10 (52.63%) Regression Testing
3 10 (52.63%) Test Scripting
4 5 (26.32%) BDD
4 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
4 5 (26.32%) Data Science
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Functional Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
4 5 (26.32%) ITIL
4 5 (26.32%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (26.32%) Performance Testing
5 4 (21.05%) Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Data Transformation
5 4 (21.05%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (21.05%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) C#
3 4 (21.05%) Groovy
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) ISTQB
2 5 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (21.05%) CIPD
3 4 (21.05%) DBS Check
3 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Google
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) VMware