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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 149 101
Rank change year-on-year +30 -48 -30
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 67 25 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.03% 0.76% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.83% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 45 21 121
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,818 £48,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £66,250 £66,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

All Process & 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 4,624 2,995 5,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 71.03% 90.46% 77.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,203 1,544 3,836
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,125 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,100 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Software Testing job vacancy trend 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 3 July 2026.

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 3 July 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire -15 21 £32,500 -38.68% 17
Norfolk -12 15 £90,000 +111.76% 7
Hertfordshire -17 11 £47,500 -17.39% 22
Bedfordshire +12 8 £41,739 -38.17% 4
Suffolk +23 6 £45,000 -15.09%
Essex -20 6 £60,000 +50.00% 4
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Simulink
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.97%) AWS
3 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.48%) Serverless
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (2.99%) Azure
4 2 (2.99%) GitHub
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.99%) Network Security
3 1 (1.49%) AMQP
3 1 (1.49%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.49%) Broadband
3 1 (1.49%) DNS
3 1 (1.49%) LTE
3 1 (1.49%) SSL
3 1 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (7.46%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) GitLab
3 2 (2.99%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.49%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) Selenium
4 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (28.36%) Electronics
2 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Manufacturing
4 7 (10.45%) Advertising
5 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Automotive
6 4 (5.97%) Swedish Language
7 1 (1.49%) Games
7 1 (1.49%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 10 (14.93%) Software Test Engineer
1 10 (14.93%) Test Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Engineering Manager
3 7 (10.45%) Support Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Hardware Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Senior
5 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) IT Support
5 5 (7.46%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Lead
5 5 (7.46%) Systems Integration Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Validation Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) FPGA Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Middleware
2 2 (2.99%) Playwright
2 2 (2.99%) REST
2 2 (2.99%) WPF
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.49%) CSS
3 1 (1.49%) HTML
3 1 (1.49%) Kafka
3 1 (1.49%) Node.js
3 1 (1.49%) pytest
3 1 (1.49%) RESTful
3 1 (1.49%) Spring
3 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.49%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) FPGA
2 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.46%) Driving Licence
2 5 (7.46%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.97%) PCIe
3 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.97%) Robotics
3 4 (5.97%) Verilog
3 4 (5.97%) VHDL
4 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.48%) Fat Client
4 3 (4.48%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.99%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (2.99%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.49%) IoT
6 1 (1.49%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Windows
2 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.97%) Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Unix
5 1 (1.49%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.49%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.49%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Validation
2 20 (29.85%) Test Automation
3 16 (23.88%) Software Engineering
4 15 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (16.42%) AI
6 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (13.43%) Customer Service
8 8 (11.94%) Service Management
9 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.45%) Test Strategy
9 7 (10.45%) Verification and Validation
10 6 (8.96%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (8.96%) Embedded Software Development
10 6 (8.96%) Machine Learning
10 6 (8.96%) Manual Testing
10 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.96%) Project Management
10 6 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.96%) Test Planning
11 5 (7.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Python
2 15 (22.39%) C
3 10 (14.93%) C++
4 8 (11.94%) C#
5 7 (10.45%) Embedded C
6 6 (8.96%) MATLAB
6 6 (8.96%) SQL
7 2 (2.99%) Bash
7 2 (2.99%) Embedded C++
7 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.49%) Go
8 1 (1.49%) Perl
8 1 (1.49%) Rust
8 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (22.39%) Degree
2 7 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) PhD
4 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.48%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.49%) ISEB
7 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) DO-254
2 3 (4.48%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) SLA
3 2 (2.99%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Firmware
2 8 (11.94%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (4.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Functional Safety
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) Altera
1 4 (5.97%) EMC
2 3 (4.48%) IBM
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle