Software Test Engineer Jobs in Cambridge

Software Test Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Software Test Engineer salary in Cambridge is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 82 110
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 4 18 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.41% 1.75% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 2.05% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 £62,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +60.49% -20.98%
75th Percentile £42,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile - - £114,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £40,000 £65,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year -38.46% +60.49% -14.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 949 880 1,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.94% 85.60% 93.33%
Number of salaries quoted 731 423 601
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £85,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -

Software Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Test Engineer in Cambridge

Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Software Test Engineer in Cambridge

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 20 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 Cambridge region featuring Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) UI Automator
2 3 (75.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) MSMQ
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Agile

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Appium
1 3 (75.00%) UI Automator
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell