Test Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Test Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Test Engineer salary in Bristol is £48,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 157 182
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 5 15 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.16% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.61% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 12
10th Percentile £42,612 - £26,425
25th Percentile £42,780 £45,000 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £54,688 £62,125 £50,000
90th Percentile £56,375 £65,000 £54,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,750 £44,039
% change year-on-year +3.45% +15.24% -11.92%

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 3,009 2,463 3,234
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 92.70% 97.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,254 1,548 2,211
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,905 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +9.02% +14.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,776 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Bristol

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Bristol

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 Bristol region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (60.00%) QA
3 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) C#
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 2 (40.00%) Test Management
5 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (20.00%) JBehave
5 1 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (20.00%) Confluence
5 1 (20.00%) Moq
5 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (20.00%) Java

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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Appium
3 1 (20.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) JBehave
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Moq
3 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Management
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility