Test Engineer Jobs in Cheltenham

Test Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Test Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 64 46
Rank change year-on-year +44 -18 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 4 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.40% 0.26% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 0.27% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £55,000 - £41,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,000 - £72,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +26.21% +17.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 88 375 265
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.70% 97.40% 83.07%
Number of salaries quoted 55 299 204
10th Percentile £27,150 £29,700 £31,625
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Cheltenham

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Cheltenham

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Cheltenham

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, 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 Cheltenham region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Confluence
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) boto
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Vue
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) boto
1 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM