Software Testing Job Trends in Coventry

Software Testing
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +21
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 2 2 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 0.34% 1.23% 8.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.40% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £41,000
25th Percentile £41,250 - £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.26%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £48,750 £19,202 £50,000
% change year-on-year +153.88% -61.60% +17.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 381 143 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 64.58% 88.27% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 250 62 107
10th Percentile £30,000 £21,375 £28,800
25th Percentile £41,000 £27,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% +9.47%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,950 £77,500 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +2.86%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Coventry

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Invoice Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Motion Control
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP