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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 104 51
Rank change year-on-year -34 -53 +41
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 39 134 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.15% 2.19% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 2.72% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 31 117 55
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £37,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -15.38% +44.44%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £91,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £52,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.13% -5.00% +1.85%

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 3,191 4,927 5,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.13% 80.52% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,475 3,696 2,178
10th Percentile £28,050 £25,809 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,537 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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
Essex +14 11 £53,000 +6.00% 7
Hertfordshire -5 9 £57,500 - 13
Cambridgeshire -8 7 £53,000 -3.64% 42
Norfolk +24 6 £58,000 +78.46% 10
Bedfordshire -11 3 £52,500 +44.83% 6
Suffolk -21 3 £53,000 +92.73% 3
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 (5.13%) Confluence
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
1 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.13%) GitHub
3 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) GSM
1 1 (2.56%) LTE
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
1 1 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (2.56%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) JIRA
2 11 (28.21%) Selenium
3 8 (20.51%) Git
4 3 (7.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.56%) PetaLinux
General
1 11 (28.21%) Law
2 9 (23.08%) Legal
3 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Electronics
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Finance
6 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.13%) Marketing
6 2 (5.13%) Military
6 2 (5.13%) Publishing
7 1 (2.56%) Automotive
7 1 (2.56%) German Language
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Senior
2 10 (25.64%) QA Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Senior QA Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Developer
5 7 (17.95%) .NET Developer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Control Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Project Assistant
7 2 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.56%) C# VB.NET Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior DSP Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) .NET
2 7 (17.95%) .NET Framework
2 7 (17.95%) ASP.NET
2 7 (17.95%) Entity Framework
2 7 (17.95%) REST
2 7 (17.95%) Web Services
3 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (15.38%) LINQ
4 5 (12.82%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
5 4 (10.26%) jQuery
6 2 (5.13%) CSS
6 2 (5.13%) HTML
7 1 (2.56%) CSS3
7 1 (2.56%) HTML5
7 1 (2.56%) JSON
7 1 (2.56%) RESTful
7 1 (2.56%) SOAP
7 1 (2.56%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) FPGA
1 2 (5.13%) Robotics
1 2 (5.13%) SCADA
1 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.56%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.56%) Verilog
2 1 (2.56%) VHDL
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Agile
2 17 (43.59%) Test Automation
3 13 (33.33%) Project Management
4 11 (28.21%) Manual Testing
4 11 (28.21%) Software Engineering
5 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
5 10 (25.64%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Test Scripting
6 9 (23.08%) Defect Tracking
6 9 (23.08%) Process Improvement
6 9 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (17.95%) MVC
7 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.38%) B2B
8 6 (15.38%) Database Optimisation
8 6 (15.38%) Microservices
8 6 (15.38%) Structured Programming
9 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
9 5 (12.82%) Validation
10 4 (10.26%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) C++
2 8 (20.51%) C#
3 7 (17.95%) C
3 7 (17.95%) Python
3 7 (17.95%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) Rust
5 5 (12.82%) Java
6 2 (5.13%) Ada
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.56%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Degree
1 10 (25.64%) ISTQB
2 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Allen-Bradley
2 2 (5.13%) Rockwell
2 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.13%) Siemens
2 2 (5.13%) Wonderware
3 1 (2.56%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.56%) Xilinx