Smoke Testing Job Trends in the East Midlands

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Smoke Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smoke Testing 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.041% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £75,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £47,500 £35,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% -53.33% +100.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,450 1,793 4,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.87% 89.16% 76.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,211 933 2,796
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £69,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Smoke Testing job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Smoke Testing
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Smoke Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Smoke Testing

Smoke Testing
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Smoke Testing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 2 £70,000 - 1
Smoke Testing
England

Smoke Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Change and Release Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Change Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Release Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Supply Chain Management
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft