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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 134 107
Rank change year-on-year -5 -27 -58
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 42 35 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.67% 1.17% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.26% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24 29 116
10th Percentile £34,625 £35,300 £27,375
25th Percentile £44,688 £48,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66,875 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £66,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +3.85% -5.45%

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 4,303 2,784 4,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.02% 93.36% 80.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,730 1,426 3,693
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -18 13 £62,500 +17.92% 17
Hertfordshire -23 12 £50,000 -13.04% 16
Suffolk +22 7 £45,000 -15.09% 1
Bedfordshire +23 5 - - 5
Essex -30 4 £30,000 -43.40% 2
Norfolk -22 1 £90,000 +111.76% 2
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:

Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Simulink
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.52%) AWS
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (7.14%) Serverless
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (4.76%) Azure
3 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Ethernet
2 2 (4.76%) Network Security
3 1 (2.38%) AMQP
3 1 (2.38%) Bluetooth
3 1 (2.38%) Broadband
3 1 (2.38%) LTE
3 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
1 5 (11.90%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) LabVIEW
3 2 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) Git
4 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (33.33%) Electronics
2 9 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Swedish Language
5 2 (4.76%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Games
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Test Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Software Test Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Test Automation Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Integration Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Systems Integration Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Validation Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) FPGA Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Project Leader
6 3 (7.14%) Software Project Leader
6 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Graduate Hardware Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (2.38%) .NET
2 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.38%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.38%) Kafka
2 1 (2.38%) Node.js
2 1 (2.38%) Playwright
2 1 (2.38%) pytest
2 1 (2.38%) RESTful
2 1 (2.38%) Spring
2 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) FPGA
2 5 (11.90%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.52%) PCIe
3 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.52%) Robotics
3 4 (9.52%) Verilog
3 4 (9.52%) VHDL
4 3 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (4.76%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.76%) Fat Client
5 2 (4.76%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.38%) Device Driver
6 1 (2.38%) IoT
6 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.38%) NB-IoT
6 1 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.38%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.38%) ThreadX
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Test Automation
2 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 12 (28.57%) Validation
3 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (16.67%) AI
4 7 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
5 6 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 6 (14.29%) Test Planning
6 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.90%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (11.90%) Prototyping
7 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
7 4 (9.52%) Embedded Software Development
7 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (9.52%) Programme Management
7 4 (9.52%) Schematic Capture
7 4 (9.52%) Signal Processing
7 4 (9.52%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 11 (26.19%) C
3 6 (14.29%) C#
3 6 (14.29%) C++
4 5 (11.90%) Embedded C
5 4 (9.52%) MATLAB
6 2 (4.76%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) Java
7 1 (2.38%) SQL
7 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
2 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) PhD
4 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (2.38%) ISEB
6 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) DO-254
2 2 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Firmware
2 4 (9.52%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Altera
2 3 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle