Software Testing Jobs in Central London

Software Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 157 167
Rank change year-on-year +27 +10 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 29 41 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.23% 1.08% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.18% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 54
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,425 £50,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -11.29% +14.81%
75th Percentile £103,750 £78,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,875 £83,625 £115,250
London median annual salary £64,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.86% +3.70% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Software 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 2,273 3,471 4,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.64% 91.83% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 2,651 3,984
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Central London.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Central London

Software 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 Software Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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 +23 21 £70,000 +40.00% 6
Camden - 5 - -
City of Westminster -10 2 - -
Lambeth - 1 £80,000 -
Software Testing
London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) GitHub
2 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Boomi
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.24%) MySQL
2 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.90%) Redis
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Git
2 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 7 (24.14%) Maven
3 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (17.24%) Appium
4 5 (17.24%) Gradle
4 5 (17.24%) XCUITest
5 4 (13.79%) Xcode
6 3 (10.34%) JUnit
6 3 (10.34%) SoapUI
7 2 (6.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (6.90%) Mockito
7 2 (6.90%) NUnit
7 2 (6.90%) Postman
7 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
7 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
7 2 (6.90%) Subversion
7 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio
7 2 (6.90%) XCTest
8 1 (3.45%) TestRail
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Games
3 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior Software Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Software Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Business Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Development Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) iOS Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) IT Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) RESTful
2 9 (31.03%) Web Services
3 8 (27.59%) Kafka
3 8 (27.59%) REST
4 7 (24.14%) Spring
5 6 (20.69%) JSON
6 5 (17.24%) .NET
6 5 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (17.24%) HTML
6 5 (17.24%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (17.24%) React
7 4 (13.79%) ASP.NET
7 4 (13.79%) Bootstrap
8 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
8 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
8 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (10.34%) CSS
8 3 (10.34%) CSS3
8 3 (10.34%) HTML5
8 3 (10.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Mobile App
1 5 (17.24%) Mobile Games
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) Derivative
3 1 (3.45%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.45%) Equities
3 1 (3.45%) FPGA
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.45%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (51.72%) Test Automation
3 11 (37.93%) Unit Testing
4 9 (31.03%) Clean Code
5 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (27.59%) Front End Development
5 8 (27.59%) SDET
6 7 (24.14%) Code Quality
6 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
6 7 (24.14%) Microservices
6 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) Test Strategy
7 6 (20.69%) DevOps
7 6 (20.69%) Migration
7 6 (20.69%) SOLID
8 5 (17.24%) B2B
8 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
8 5 (17.24%) MVC
8 5 (17.24%) UML
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) Java
3 9 (31.03%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) Swift
5 3 (10.34%) C++
6 2 (6.90%) Groovy
6 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.45%) C
7 1 (3.45%) Python
7 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.45%) CISA
4 1 (3.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Argo
2 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Google
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
1 5 (17.24%) New Relic
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk