Test Engineer Jobs in Dartford

Test Engineer
Kent > Dartford

The median Test Engineer salary in Dartford is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dartford 1.61% - 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% - 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile - - £66,250
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median annual salary £47,250 £30,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +57.50% -47.83% +27.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dartford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dartford. 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 Dartford with a recognized job title 26 106 26
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 41.94% 98.15% 86.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12 71 10
10th Percentile £17,025 £28,000 £33,775
25th Percentile £27,938 £30,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £47,500 £59,375 £61,563
90th Percentile £58,375 £100,000 £67,250
Kent median annual salary £47,000 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +10.59% -8.60% +3.33%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dartford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Dartford

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Dartford

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Dartford

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Dartford region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) ZigBee
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dartford 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) QA