Software Testing Job Trends in the City of London

Software Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 112 131
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +42
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 17 57 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.81% 2.10% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 2.20% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16 36 21
10th Percentile £45,625 - £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £60,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -40.00% +48.15%
75th Percentile £80,313 £93,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £112,500 £55,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +104.55% -45.00% +48.15%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 2,593 2,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 95.47% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,694 2,415
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

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

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the City of London

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Delta Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Selenium
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) JMeter
3 2 (11.76%) JUnit
3 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.88%) NUnit
4 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Law
2 4 (23.53%) Legal
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Health
5 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Software Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Technologist
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technologist
6 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
1 4 (23.53%) .NET Core
1 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
1 4 (23.53%) CSS
1 4 (23.53%) CSS3
1 4 (23.53%) Entity Framework
1 4 (23.53%) HTML
1 4 (23.53%) HTML5
1 4 (23.53%) React
1 4 (23.53%) RESTful
2 3 (17.65%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Thrift
3 2 (11.76%) JSON
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Code Quality
4 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
6 4 (23.53%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 4 (23.53%) Database Optimisation
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) User Experience
6 4 (23.53%) UX Design
7 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
7 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
8 2 (11.76%) Analytics
8 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (11.76%) Scala
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) ISEB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (23.53%) WCAG
3 2 (11.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Siebel