Software Testing Job Trends in Ballymena

Software Testing
County Antrim > Ballymena

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Ballymena requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Ballymena 21.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median annual salary - - £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +68.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ballymena

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Ballymena.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Ballymena 71.43% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £57,625 - -
25th Percentile £57,813 - £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - £27,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.17%
75th Percentile £65,313 - £27,375
90th Percentile £65,875 - -
County Antrim median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ballymena by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Legal Technology
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA