Test Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Test Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 February 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 152 153
Rank change year-on-year +81 +1 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 74 10 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.67% 0.32% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 0.34% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 15
10th Percentile £32,800 - £31,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -26.09%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £55,625
90th Percentile £56,000 £54,250 £57,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,656 2,933 2,613
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 95.29% 94.33%
Number of salaries quoted 932 2,248 1,629
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,498
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.89% +6.31%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +3.33%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
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 Test Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Northamptonshire +42 66 - - 1
Nottinghamshire +1 5 £50,000 +42.86% 2
Lincolnshire -2 2 - -
Leicestershire - 1 £35,000 -
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 February 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 East Midlands region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (89.19%) Degree
2 64 (86.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 46 (62.16%) Test Automation
4 43 (58.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (55.41%) Automotive
6 40 (54.05%) Wi-Fi
6 40 (54.05%) Wireless
6 40 (54.05%) Bluetooth
6 40 (54.05%) Test Scripting
7 39 (52.70%) LTE
7 39 (52.70%) Data Management
7 39 (52.70%) GSM
7 39 (52.70%) UMTS
7 39 (52.70%) EMC
7 39 (52.70%) 5G
7 39 (52.70%) Satnav
8 27 (36.49%) Microsoft
9 25 (33.78%) Manufacturing
9 25 (33.78%) Microsoft Office
9 25 (33.78%) Safety Engineering
10 7 (9.46%) Software Testing
10 7 (9.46%) QA
11 6 (8.11%) Agile
11 6 (8.11%) Social Skills
12 4 (5.41%) Mentoring
13 3 (4.05%) Aerospace
13 3 (4.05%) C#
13 3 (4.05%) .NET
14 2 (2.70%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
14 2 (2.70%) Verification and Validation

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (33.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.70%) Maple
2 2 (2.70%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 40 (54.05%) Bluetooth
1 40 (54.05%) Wi-Fi
1 40 (54.05%) Wireless
2 39 (52.70%) 5G
2 39 (52.70%) GSM
2 39 (52.70%) LTE
2 39 (52.70%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.70%) JIRA
1 2 (2.70%) Selenium
1 2 (2.70%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.35%) Postman
2 1 (1.35%) Subversion
2 1 (1.35%) TestComplete
2 1 (1.35%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (86.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 41 (55.41%) Automotive
3 25 (33.78%) Manufacturing
4 6 (8.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.70%) Electronics
7 1 (1.35%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Billing
7 1 (1.35%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) .NET
2 1 (1.35%) LDAP
2 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (52.70%) Satnav
2 2 (2.70%) CAN bus
2 2 (2.70%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.35%) PKI
3 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.35%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (62.16%) Test Automation
2 43 (58.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 40 (54.05%) Test Scripting
4 39 (52.70%) Data Management
5 25 (33.78%) Safety Engineering
6 7 (9.46%) Software Testing
7 6 (8.11%) Agile
8 4 (5.41%) Mentoring
9 2 (2.70%) Coaching
9 2 (2.70%) Data Privacy
9 2 (2.70%) DevOps
9 2 (2.70%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 2 (2.70%) Post-Production
9 2 (2.70%) Product Management
9 2 (2.70%) Regression Testing
9 2 (2.70%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (2.70%) Test Strategy
9 2 (2.70%) Time Management
9 2 (2.70%) Validation
9 2 (2.70%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.05%) C#
2 2 (2.70%) MATLAB
3 1 (1.35%) Python
3 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (89.19%) Degree
2 2 (2.70%) PhD
3 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 39 (52.70%) EMC
2 27 (36.49%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.70%) Lotus