Software Testing Jobs in the East Midlands

Software Testing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 83 100
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 -43
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 102 122 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.73% 2.43% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.13% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17 41 47
10th Percentile £29,300 £27,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £36,359
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £59,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £69,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £51,020 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.70% -11.27% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,391 3,902 2,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 87.39% 77.78% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 2,417 1,151
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the East Midlands

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the East Midlands

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the East Midlands

Software 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 Software Testing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. 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
Leicestershire +50 64 £63,750 +86.13% 6
Northamptonshire -24 28 - - 7
Nottinghamshire +30 6 £48,000 -40.00% 8
Derbyshire +10 4 £75,000 +117.39% 8
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (3.92%) Appian
2 1 (0.98%) WinCC
Applications
1 45 (44.12%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.96%) AWS
1 2 (1.96%) Azure
1 2 (1.96%) GCP
1 2 (1.96%) SaaS
2 1 (0.98%) BrowserStack
2 1 (0.98%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.96%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.96%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Git
2 2 (1.96%) JMeter
2 2 (1.96%) LoadRunner
2 2 (1.96%) Postman
3 1 (0.98%) SpecFlow
General
1 45 (44.12%) Aerospace
1 45 (44.12%) Automotive
2 6 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.90%) Finance
4 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.94%) Marketing
4 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.96%) Retail
6 1 (0.98%) Advertising
6 1 (0.98%) Electronics
6 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (36.27%) Principal Engineer
2 34 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 34 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 33 (32.35%) Development Engineer
3 33 (32.35%) Software Development Engineer
4 24 (23.53%) Instrumentation Engineer
5 22 (21.57%) Principal Software Engineer
6 21 (20.59%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 15 (14.71%) Senior
8 12 (11.76%) Senior Development Engineer
8 12 (11.76%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 12 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (11.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Appian Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Developer
10 3 (2.94%) Commissioning Engineer
11 2 (1.96%) Analyst
11 2 (1.96%) Consultant
11 2 (1.96%) Principal Developer
11 2 (1.96%) Recruitment Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.96%) Django
1 2 (1.96%) Flask
1 2 (1.96%) Playwright
1 2 (1.96%) Swagger
2 1 (0.98%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.92%) SCADA
2 3 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.98%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (92.16%) Agile
2 54 (52.94%) Software Engineering
3 46 (45.10%) SDLC
4 45 (44.12%) Systems Engineering
4 45 (44.12%) Validation
5 43 (42.16%) Waterfall
6 6 (5.88%) Software Delivery
7 4 (3.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (3.92%) Mentoring
7 4 (3.92%) Test Automation
7 4 (3.92%) Unit Testing
8 3 (2.94%) BPMN
8 3 (2.94%) CI/CD
8 3 (2.94%) Commercial Awareness
8 3 (2.94%) Performance Testing
8 3 (2.94%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (2.94%) Project Management
8 3 (2.94%) UML
8 3 (2.94%) Workflow
9 2 (1.96%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 45 (44.12%) MATLAB
2 2 (1.96%) Python
3 1 (0.98%) C#
3 1 (0.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (82.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 39 (38.24%) Degree
3 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (40.20%) Siemens
2 2 (1.96%) Google
3 1 (0.98%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (0.98%) AVEVA
3 1 (0.98%) Rockwell
3 1 (0.98%) SAP