Test Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Test Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Test Engineer salary in Birmingham is £57,965 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 107 173
Rank change year-on-year -13 +66 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 3 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.13% 0.071% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.076% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32,875
25th Percentile £55,188 £22,500 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £25,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +131.86% -39.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,741 £27,500 £47,813
90th Percentile - - £50,625
West Midlands median annual salary £57,965 £47,500 £36,550
% change year-on-year +22.03% +29.96% -14.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,175 1,321 2,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 94.42% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 1,104 2,163
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,354 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,974 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Birmingham

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 Birmingham region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Gatling
2 2 (66.67%) Context-Driven Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Gatling
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Context-Driven Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft