Tester Job Trends in Bournemouth

Tester
Dorset > Bournemouth

As of 8 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Tester salary in Bournemouth.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 0.39% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Dorset median annual salary - - £32,500
% change year-on-year - - -35.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bournemouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bournemouth. 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 Bournemouth with a recognized job title 243 65 434
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.29% 100.00% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 144 47 299
10th Percentile £29,300 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,188 £40,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £71,250
Dorset median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% - +5.26%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Tester' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

Tester job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Tester
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Bournemouth.

Salary distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Bournemouth

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth

For the 6 months to 8 April 2026, Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bournemouth region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective

Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash