Senior Test Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 771 806
Rank change year-on-year +193 +35 +208
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 81 64 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.072% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.076% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 59 39 60
10th Percentile £50,650 £41,250 £43,725
25th Percentile £56,125 £45,000 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.31% -12.89%
75th Percentile - £60,741 £78,125
90th Percentile - £65,750 £91,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £46,250 £57,197
% change year-on-year +29.73% -19.14% -4.67%

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 44,066 84,104 79,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.65% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,206 62,399 50,596
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +136 61 £60,000 +33.33% 18
East of England +36 8 £39,000 -22.00% 17
South West +115 4 £52,500 - 13
North of England +39 3 £42,500 -26.68% 14
North West +7 3 £42,500 -26.68% 7
Midlands +52 2 - - 13
East Midlands - 2 - - 6
London +97 1 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Senior Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Senior Test Engineer 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 Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (82.72%) Degree
2 55 (67.90%) Test Automation
3 51 (62.96%) Software Testing
4 44 (54.32%) Validation
4 44 (54.32%) Verification and Validation
5 43 (53.09%) Agile
6 42 (51.85%) UML
6 42 (51.85%) Configuration Management
6 42 (51.85%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 42 (51.85%) Waterfall
6 42 (51.85%) Computer Science
7 39 (48.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (37.04%) Code Quality
9 26 (32.10%) Manufacturing
10 22 (27.16%) Microsoft
10 22 (27.16%) Microsoft Office
10 22 (27.16%) Safety Engineering
10 22 (27.16%) Mentoring
10 22 (27.16%) Coaching
10 22 (27.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (14.81%) Ada
12 9 (11.11%) Test Strategy
13 6 (7.41%) Selenium
13 6 (7.41%) Software Engineering
13 6 (7.41%) SDLC
14 5 (6.17%) API Testing
14 5 (6.17%) TypeScript
14 5 (6.17%) Embedded C
14 5 (6.17%) LabVIEW
14 5 (6.17%) Python

Senior Test Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (27.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.94%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (1.23%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.23%) Azure
1 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Selenium
2 5 (6.17%) LabVIEW
3 4 (4.94%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.94%) Git
3 4 (4.94%) SpecFlow
4 3 (3.70%) JIRA
5 2 (2.47%) TestRail
6 1 (1.23%) Postman
6 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (32.10%) Manufacturing
2 22 (27.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (3.70%) Games
3 3 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.23%) Automotive
4 1 (1.23%) Avionics
4 1 (1.23%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.23%) JSON
2 1 (1.23%) Swagger
2 1 (1.23%) Web Services
2 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.94%) Analogue Electronics
2 3 (3.70%) Online Games
3 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.90%) Test Automation
2 51 (62.96%) Software Testing
3 44 (54.32%) Validation
3 44 (54.32%) Verification and Validation
4 43 (53.09%) Agile
5 42 (51.85%) Computer Science
5 42 (51.85%) Configuration Management
5 42 (51.85%) UML
5 42 (51.85%) Waterfall
6 30 (37.04%) Code Quality
7 22 (27.16%) Coaching
7 22 (27.16%) Mentoring
7 22 (27.16%) Safety Engineering
8 9 (11.11%) Test Strategy
9 6 (7.41%) SDLC
9 6 (7.41%) Software Engineering
10 5 (6.17%) API Testing
10 5 (6.17%) Test Scripting
11 4 (4.94%) CI/CD
11 4 (4.94%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.81%) Ada
2 5 (6.17%) C
2 5 (6.17%) Embedded C
2 5 (6.17%) Python
2 5 (6.17%) TypeScript
3 4 (4.94%) C#
4 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.23%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (82.72%) Degree
2 39 (48.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (51.85%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 4 (4.94%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 22 (27.16%) Microsoft