Software Testing Job Trends in the East of England

Software Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Software Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 85 98
Rank change year-on-year -64 +13 -53
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 27 95 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.80% 2.14% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 2.90% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 22 52 32
10th Percentile £35,500 £30,000 £27,875
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,125 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -21.43% +53.85%
75th Percentile £59,375 £61,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 -
England median annual salary £55,565 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.03% -4.35% +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 2,928 3,280 2,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.65% 73.99% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 1,783 1,397
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,312 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% -1.27% +2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Testing

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +4 10 £36,000 -37.39% 13
Cambridgeshire -21 9 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Essex -13 5 £53,000 -11.67% 8
Suffolk -31 3 £53,000 +46.21% 2
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 (7.41%) Confluence
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) LAN
1 4 (14.81%) WAN
2 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Selenium
2 11 (40.74%) JIRA
3 4 (14.81%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (11.11%) Git
4 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.11%) JMeter
4 3 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 9 (33.33%) Law
1 9 (33.33%) Legal
2 5 (18.52%) Electronics
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Publishing
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Senior
2 9 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.41%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Control Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Project Assistant
5 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) REST
1 3 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
2 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
2 2 (7.41%) CSS
2 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
2 2 (7.41%) HTML
2 2 (7.41%) jQuery
2 2 (7.41%) Node.js
2 2 (7.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) CCTV
1 4 (14.81%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.41%) SCADA
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
1 12 (44.44%) Manual Testing
1 12 (44.44%) Project Management
1 12 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 10 (37.04%) Process Improvement
3 9 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 9 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 9 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Data Analysis
6 3 (11.11%) Analytics
6 3 (11.11%) API Testing
6 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 3 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
6 3 (11.11%) SDET
6 3 (11.11%) Security Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (7.41%) Data Acquisition
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) C#
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Allen-Bradley
1 2 (7.41%) Rockwell
1 2 (7.41%) Siemens
1 2 (7.41%) Wonderware