Software Testing Jobs in the City of London

Software Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 118 141 163
Rank change year-on-year +23 +22 +19
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 21 36 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.10% 1.08% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.17% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 51
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,050 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -37.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £103,750 £78,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £83,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -11.29% +14.81%

All Process and 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 1,838 3,064 4,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.23% 91.65% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,383 2,397 3,613
10th Percentile £42,100 £41,315 £42,800
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the City of London.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the City of London

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Boomi
1 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
1 2 (9.52%) SaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Appium
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
1 5 (23.81%) XCUITest
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) NUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
3 2 (9.52%) Xcode
4 1 (4.76%) JMeter
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) NeoLoad
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (4.76%) TestRail
4 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Business Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Development Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) iOS Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Development Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) QA Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Web Services
2 6 (28.57%) JSON
2 6 (28.57%) REST
3 5 (23.81%) RESTful
4 4 (19.05%) .NET
5 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
6 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (9.52%) Bootstrap
6 2 (9.52%) Entity Framework
6 2 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (9.52%) HTML
6 2 (9.52%) jQuery
6 2 (9.52%) LINQ
6 2 (9.52%) LINQ to SQL
6 2 (9.52%) XML
7 1 (4.76%) Middleware
7 1 (4.76%) WSDL
7 1 (4.76%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Derivative
2 1 (4.76%) Digital Media
2 1 (4.76%) Equities
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.76%) FPGA
2 1 (4.76%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (38.10%) SDET
4 7 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
6 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
7 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (19.05%) iOS Development
7 4 (19.05%) OO
7 4 (19.05%) Project Management
7 4 (19.05%) Test Planning
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 3 (14.29%) SDLC
8 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 2 (9.52%) Agile Testing
9 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) C#
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) Swift
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) C
6 1 (4.76%) Python
6 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) CISA
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle