Smoke Testing Job Trends in Central London

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Smoke Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - 187
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smoke Testing 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.052% - 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% - 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £44,375
25th Percentile £46,250 - £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £58,750
75th Percentile £48,750 - £69,063
90th Percentile - - £74,125
London median annual salary £47,500 - £76,250
% change year-on-year - - +30.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Smoke Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,218 2,496 3,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 83.20% 96.33% 92.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 1,686 2,754
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Smoke Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Smoke Testing job vacancy trend in Central London

Smoke Testing
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Smoke Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Smoke Testing

Smoke Testing
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smoke Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 2 £47,500 - 2
Smoke Testing
London

Smoke Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
1 2 (100.00%) UAT Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL