Software Test Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Software Test Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Software Test Engineer salary in Bristol is £44,033 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 176 187
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 1 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.032% 0.074% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.080% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £45,250 -
25th Percentile £42,874 £45,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,033 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £45,191 £54,375 -
90th Percentile - £54,750 -
South West median annual salary £39,516 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.21% -5.88% -15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 2,991 2,507 3,231
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.76% 92.92% 97.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,229 1,577 2,256
10th Percentile £33,400 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,625 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +12.90%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%

Software Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Test Engineer in Bristol

Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Software Test Engineer in Bristol

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Software 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 Bristol region featuring Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility