Software Testing Jobs in Bedfordshire

Software Testing
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 41 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 -19 +31
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1 7 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.18% 1.52% 10.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 2.03% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £49,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £32,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £36,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +86.21% -34.09% +20.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £38,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £60,750
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% -15.38% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 539 345 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 95.40% 75.00% 98.71%
Number of salaries quoted 88 241 285
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £35,958
25th Percentile £40,300 £33,152 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -13.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £66,125 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £93,750 £84,500
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Bedfordshire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in Bedfordshire

Software Testing
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Bedford +4 1 £67,500 +86.21% 14
Software Testing
East of England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (100.00%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DSP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DSP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python