Exploratory Testing Jobs in England

Exploratory Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 785 828 771
Rank change year-on-year +43 -57 -70
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 48 116 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.13% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 33 99 168
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £37,374
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +11.65% +3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Exploratory Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,041 88,556 126,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.64% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 53,922 52,314 73,827
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in England

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in England.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in England

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in England

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 +95 25 £55,000 -8.33% 3
South East -16 8 - - 3
North of England +23 6 £45,000 +5.88% 3
Yorkshire +84 4 £45,000 +5.88%
South West -16 3 £32,500 -35.00% 2
West Midlands +31 2 £37,500 +7.14% 1
East of England +14 2 £37,500 -25.00% 4
Midlands +12 2 £37,500 +7.14% 1
North West +5 2 £37,500 -6.25% 3
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory Testing
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:

Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.17%) AWS
3 2 (4.17%) ClickUp
3 2 (4.17%) CloudBees
4 1 (2.08%) GCP
4 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) OLTP
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Selenium
2 13 (27.08%) JIRA
3 7 (14.58%) JMeter
4 6 (12.50%) Appium
5 4 (8.33%) IntelliJ
5 4 (8.33%) Postman
5 4 (8.33%) Protractor
5 4 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (8.33%) WebDriver
6 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
7 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.17%) Git
7 2 (4.17%) JUnit
7 2 (4.17%) SoapUI
7 2 (4.17%) TestComplete
8 1 (2.08%) GitLab
8 1 (2.08%) GoogleTest
8 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.08%) Spock
General
1 25 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Law
4 3 (6.25%) Marketing
4 3 (6.25%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Automotive
5 2 (4.17%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Tester
2 13 (27.08%) Analyst
3 11 (22.92%) Software Tester
3 11 (22.92%) Test Analyst
4 10 (20.83%) QA Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Test Specialist
6 4 (8.33%) Automation Tester
7 3 (6.25%) Lead
7 3 (6.25%) QA Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) QA Leader
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 2 (4.17%) Junior
8 2 (4.17%) Junior QA Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Security Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.17%) Web Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) .NET
2 3 (6.25%) REST
2 3 (6.25%) Web Services
3 2 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (2.08%) HTML
4 1 (2.08%) HTML5
4 1 (2.08%) Puppeteer
4 1 (2.08%) pytest
4 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Debian
3 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (87.50%) Agile
2 37 (77.08%) Test Automation
3 25 (52.08%) Software Testing
4 22 (45.83%) Regression Testing
5 17 (35.42%) Functional Testing
6 15 (31.25%) Test Strategy
7 14 (29.17%) Test Scripting
8 13 (27.08%) Acceptance Criteria
8 13 (27.08%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
10 11 (22.92%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (20.83%) End-to-End Testing
11 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (20.83%) Validation
12 9 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (18.75%) DevOps
13 8 (16.67%) Data Validation
13 8 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
13 8 (16.67%) System Testing
13 8 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) SQL
3 11 (22.92%) Java
4 7 (14.58%) C#
5 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.17%) COBOL
7 2 (4.17%) HLASM
7 2 (4.17%) REXX
7 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.08%) C
8 1 (2.08%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) ISEB
2 9 (18.75%) Degree
3 7 (14.58%) ISTQB
4 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.17%) HND
7 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (54.17%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Consul
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.08%) Google
2 1 (2.08%) Splunk