Developer in Test Jobs in England

Developer in Test
UK > England

The median Developer in Test salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 683 824 819
Rank change year-on-year +141 -5 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer in Test 8 15 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.017% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.019% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 58
10th Percentile £57,850 - £26,000
25th Percentile £60,250 £41,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £48,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.97% -27.78% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £52,500 £78,750
90th Percentile - £67,125 £93,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +55.00% -25.93% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,402 81,024 81,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.51% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 60,436 51,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Developer in Test
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Developer in Test in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Test in England

Developer in Test
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Test in England.

Salary trend for Developer in Test in England

Developer in Test
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Test in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Test in England

Developer in Test
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer in Test within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London +106 6 £80,000 +88.24% 1
North of England +56 1 £77,500 +82.35% 1
Midlands - 1 £57,500 -
North West - 1 £77,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £57,500 -
Developer in Test
UK

Developer in Test Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Developer in Test job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Developer in Test in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (87.50%) SDET
3 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Selenium
3 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) QA
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 3 (37.50%) Python
5 3 (37.50%) C#
5 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (37.50%) Finance
5 3 (37.50%) Playwright
6 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
6 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (25.00%) JMeter
6 2 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Kanban
6 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared

Developer in Test Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Sentry
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (25.00%) Gatling
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) JMeter
4 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (12.50%) JIRA
5 1 (12.50%) JUnit
5 1 (12.50%) NUnit
5 1 (12.50%) Postman
5 1 (12.50%) TestComplete
5 1 (12.50%) TestNG
5 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (87.50%) SDET
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
6 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Kanban
6 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (25.00%) TDD
7 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana