Software Testing Jobs in the East of England

Software Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 100 81
Rank change year-on-year -58 -19 -26
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 30 144 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.80% 2.18% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 2.82% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 23 121 47
10th Percentile £28,950 £26,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £37,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -15.38% +42.23%
75th Percentile £58,000 £61,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £65,500 £66,250 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,422 5,115 4,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 91.13% 77.34% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 3,782 1,917
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,031 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the East of England

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in the East of England

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the East of England

Software Testing
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Hertfordshire -5 7 £57,500 - 21
Essex -6 7 £40,000 -27.27% 7
Cambridgeshire -11 7 £53,000 -3.64% 35
Norfolk +29 5 £58,000 +78.46% 8
Suffolk -25 3 £53,000 +92.73%
Bedfordshire -4 1 £67,500 +80.00% 6
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) AWS
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) GSM
1 1 (3.33%) LTE
1 1 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (3.33%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) JIRA
2 11 (36.67%) Selenium
3 3 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (6.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.33%) JMeter
5 1 (3.33%) PetaLinux
5 1 (3.33%) Postman
General
1 9 (30.00%) Law
1 9 (30.00%) Legal
2 6 (20.00%) Electronics
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (6.67%) Military
4 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Publishing
5 1 (3.33%) German Language
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Senior
2 9 (30.00%) QA Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Software Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Control Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Project Assistant
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (3.33%) 1st Line Support Technician
6 1 (3.33%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior DSP Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Software Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Support Technician
6 1 (3.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) LINQ
3 1 (3.33%) Playwright
3 1 (3.33%) React Native
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) SOAP
3 1 (3.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) FPGA
1 2 (6.67%) SCADA
1 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) Verilog
2 1 (3.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Agile
2 17 (56.67%) Test Automation
3 11 (36.67%) Manual Testing
3 11 (36.67%) Project Management
4 9 (30.00%) Defect Tracking
4 9 (30.00%) Process Improvement
4 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 9 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 9 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 4 (13.33%) DevOps
7 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
7 4 (13.33%) Mathematics
7 4 (13.33%) Validation
8 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis
9 2 (6.67%) Data Acquisition
9 2 (6.67%) Email Marketing
9 2 (6.67%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) C++
3 5 (16.67%) C
3 5 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) Rust
4 2 (6.67%) Ada
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) ISTQB
2 8 (26.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Allen-Bradley
1 2 (6.67%) Rockwell
1 2 (6.67%) Siemens
1 2 (6.67%) Wonderware
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Xilinx