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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 88 108
Rank change year-on-year -59 +20 -66
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 27 96 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.81% 2.30% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 3.02% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23 45 27
10th Percentile £28,700 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -15.38% +42.86%
75th Percentile £58,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +6.67%

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 2,868 3,178 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 76.25% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 1,459 1,339
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,200 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +15 11 £36,000 +20.00% 31
Cambridgeshire -22 8 £60,000 +22.70% 16
Essex -15 5 £53,000 -11.67% 2
Suffolk -30 3 £53,000 +46.21% 1
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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 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%) JIRA
1 12 (44.44%) Selenium
2 4 (14.81%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (11.11%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) JMeter
3 3 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 9 (33.33%) Law
1 9 (33.33%) Legal
2 5 (18.52%) Electronics
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
4 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
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 4 (14.81%) 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%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Project Assistant
5 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Support
6 1 (3.70%) IT Support Technician
6 1 (3.70%) IT Technician
6 1 (3.70%) Support Technician
6 1 (3.70%) Test Technician
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 1 (3.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
1 13 (48.15%) Manual Testing
1 13 (48.15%) Test Automation
2 12 (44.44%) Project Management
3 10 (37.04%) Process Improvement
4 9 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
4 9 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 9 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) Data Analysis
7 3 (11.11%) Analytics
7 3 (11.11%) API Testing
7 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 3 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
7 3 (11.11%) SDET
7 3 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 3 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (7.41%) Structured Programming
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft