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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 124 38
Rank change year-on-year +61 -86 +39
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 119 65 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.43% 1.44% 6.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 1.81% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25 37 61
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,329 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +23.32% +3.90%
75th Percentile £58,000 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +1.85%

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 2,480 3,585 2,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.36% 79.38% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 922 2,514 1,246
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,050 £50,498
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -12.77% +6.31%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +70 68 £41,250 -17.50% 15
Northamptonshire -2 35 £47,500 -3.71% 7
Nottinghamshire +34 12 £48,000 -54.29% 19
Derbyshire +10 2 £31,000 -10.14% 13
Lincolnshire +9 2 £58,000 +40.61% 7
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 1 (0.84%) WinCC
Applications
1 68 (57.14%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.20%) SaaS
2 2 (1.68%) GitHub
2 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.84%) BrowserStack
3 1 (0.84%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.68%) Profibus
2 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) 5G
3 1 (0.84%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.84%) LTE
3 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (1.68%) MySQL
2 2 (1.68%) Power BI
2 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Postman
2 3 (2.52%) Selenium
3 2 (1.68%) JMeter
3 2 (1.68%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.84%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (57.14%) Aerospace
1 68 (57.14%) Automotive
2 12 (10.08%) Social Skills
3 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (1.68%) Electronics
4 2 (1.68%) Finance
4 2 (1.68%) Marketing
4 2 (1.68%) Retail
5 1 (0.84%) Advertising
5 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (36.97%) Principal Engineer
2 38 (31.93%) Software Engineer
3 34 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
4 33 (27.73%) Development Engineer
4 33 (27.73%) Software Development Engineer
5 21 (17.65%) Principal Software Engineer
5 21 (17.65%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 17 (14.29%) Senior
7 15 (12.61%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (10.08%) Senior Development Engineer
8 12 (10.08%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 12 (10.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Analyst
10 4 (3.36%) Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Tester
11 3 (2.52%) Commissioning Engineer
12 2 (1.68%) C# Software Developer
12 2 (1.68%) Python Developer
12 2 (1.68%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.68%) .NET
1 2 (1.68%) Django
1 2 (1.68%) Playwright
1 2 (1.68%) RESTful
1 2 (1.68%) SOAP
1 2 (1.68%) Swagger
1 2 (1.68%) WPF
1 2 (1.68%) XML
2 1 (0.84%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.20%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.36%) SCADA
3 3 (2.52%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.68%) Robotics
4 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.84%) IoT
5 1 (0.84%) NB-IoT
5 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (84.03%) Agile
2 68 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
2 68 (57.14%) Validation
3 65 (54.62%) Software Engineering
4 30 (25.21%) SDLC
5 23 (19.33%) Waterfall
6 8 (6.72%) Test Automation
7 5 (4.20%) Computer Science
7 5 (4.20%) Mathematics
7 5 (4.20%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (3.36%) CI/CD
9 3 (2.52%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (2.52%) Commercial Awareness
9 3 (2.52%) DevSecOps
9 3 (2.52%) Manual Testing
9 3 (2.52%) Mentoring
9 3 (2.52%) Performance Testing
10 2 (1.68%) ETL
10 2 (1.68%) OOP
10 2 (1.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (57.14%) MATLAB
2 8 (6.72%) C#
2 8 (6.72%) SQL
3 6 (5.04%) Python
4 3 (2.52%) Java
4 3 (2.52%) Rust
5 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.68%) XAML
6 1 (0.84%) Bash
6 1 (0.84%) C++
6 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 91 (76.47%) BPSS Clearance
2 29 (24.37%) Degree
3 3 (2.52%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) QA
2 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.84%) Ansible
1 1 (0.84%) Puppet
1 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (21.01%) Siemens
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle
3 1 (0.84%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (0.84%) AVEVA
3 1 (0.84%) Google
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.84%) Rockwell
3 1 (0.84%) SAP
3 1 (0.84%) VMware