Tester Jobs in the East Midlands

Tester
England > East Midlands

The median Tester salary in the East Midlands is £46,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 132 162
Rank change year-on-year -47 +30 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 11 41 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.25% 1.43% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 1.63% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 24
10th Percentile £28,625 - £31,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £35,634
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £32,750 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +40.46% -28.42% -3.68%
75th Percentile £62,813 £35,938 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £45,500 £51,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,086 2,521 3,307
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 88.12% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,987 1,392 2,212
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the East Midlands

Tester
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Tester in the East Midlands

Tester
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Tester in the East Midlands

Tester
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 Tester within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 -2 5 - -
Derbyshire +6 3 £34,500 +6.15% 1
Lincolnshire -16 2 £57,500 +74.24%
Leicestershire -41 1 £24,000 -40.00% 1
Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (45.45%) QA
2 5 (45.45%) Release Management
2 5 (45.45%) Backlog Refinement
2 5 (45.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 5 (45.45%) E-Commerce
2 5 (45.45%) B2B
2 5 (45.45%) B2C
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
2 5 (45.45%) Retail
2 5 (45.45%) Web Development
2 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Internet
4 2 (18.18%) HTTP
4 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 2 (18.18%) SOAP
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration

Tester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) Internet
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Postman
1 2 (18.18%) SoapUI
1 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Retail
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (45.45%) B2B
2 5 (45.45%) B2C
2 5 (45.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 5 (45.45%) Backlog Refinement
2 5 (45.45%) E-Commerce
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
2 5 (45.45%) Release Management
2 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Web Development
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft