Smoke Testing Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of 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 144 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smoke Testing 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.055% - 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% - 0.068%
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
Central London median annual salary £47,500 - £58,750

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,002 2,021 2,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 82.34% 95.92% 92.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,109 1,511 2,496
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Smoke Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Smoke Testing
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Smoke Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Smoke Testing

Smoke Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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