Software Testing Job Trends in England

Software Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 267 175
Rank change year-on-year +4 -92 -17
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 657 495 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.14% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.27% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 463 363 781
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,818 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,240 39,044 63,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 89.88% 81.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,785 22,556 43,778
10th Percentile £31,175 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Software Testing job vacancy trend in England

Software Testing
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in England

Software 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 Software Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
South East +13 155 £47,500 -5.00% 65
London -48 145 £67,500 +5.47% 82
North of England -5 109 £55,000 +29.41% 49
South West -31 86 £50,000 -9.09% 30
Midlands -15 85 £55,000 +41.94% 34
East of England +24 70 £55,000 +3.77% 29
North West +20 59 £52,500 -16.00% 20
West Midlands -8 55 £62,500 +316.67% 24
East Midlands -24 30 £55,000 -1.79% 10
North East -25 30 £57,500 +69.12% 20
Yorkshire -50 20 £45,711 +72.49% 11
Software Testing
UK

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.13%) IIS
2 10 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.07%) Confluence
4 5 (0.76%) CMS
4 5 (0.76%) WordPress
5 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.61%) Moodle
6 3 (0.46%) Apache
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) WinCC
Applications
1 18 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.67%) Simulink
4 6 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.76%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.76%) DaVinci Resolve
6 4 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
1 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.15%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.15%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 123 (18.72%) Azure
2 118 (17.96%) AWS
3 41 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (5.33%) GCP
5 29 (4.41%) GitHub
6 26 (3.96%) Serverless
7 15 (2.28%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.67%) SaaS
12 9 (1.37%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (1.37%) BrowserStack
12 9 (1.37%) OpenShift
13 6 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.76%) Tricentis Tosca
15 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.61%) Azure Functions
16 3 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.67%) VPN
2 8 (1.22%) Broadband
2 8 (1.22%) SNMP
3 6 (0.91%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.76%) HTTP
5 4 (0.61%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.30%) ATM
6 2 (0.30%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) LTE
6 2 (0.30%) Modbus
6 2 (0.30%) Wireless
7 1 (0.15%) AMQP
7 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) MQTT
7 1 (0.15%) Network Security
7 1 (0.15%) SSL
7 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.13%) Power BI
4 13 (1.98%) DynamoDB
5 12 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (1.83%) OLTP
6 10 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.07%) InfluxDB
9 7 (1.07%) MySQL
9 7 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.91%) Spark SQL
11 5 (0.76%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.61%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.46%) Big Data
13 3 (0.46%) DTS
14 2 (0.30%) Db2
Development Applications
1 81 (12.33%) Git
2 62 (9.44%) JIRA
3 54 (8.22%) Selenium
4 52 (7.91%) GitLab
5 40 (6.09%) Jenkins
6 24 (3.65%) Postman
7 21 (3.20%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.74%) JUnit
9 17 (2.59%) TestRail
10 15 (2.28%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.28%) Zephyr
11 14 (2.13%) JMeter
12 10 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
13 9 (1.37%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.22%) REST Assured
14 8 (1.22%) SpecFlow
15 7 (1.07%) Gatling
15 7 (1.07%) LoadRunner
15 7 (1.07%) Robot Framework
15 7 (1.07%) WebDriver
General
1 194 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 107 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (12.63%) Finance
4 40 (6.09%) Electronics
5 35 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.87%) Manufacturing
7 31 (4.72%) Law
8 22 (3.35%) Banking
9 14 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.13%) Public Sector
9 14 (2.13%) Retail
10 12 (1.83%) Games
11 10 (1.52%) Aviation
11 10 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.37%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.37%) Legal
12 9 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.22%) Automotive
13 8 (1.22%) Military
14 7 (1.07%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 164 (24.96%) Senior
2 120 (18.26%) Software Engineer
3 77 (11.72%) Test Engineer
4 72 (10.96%) Developer
5 63 (9.59%) Analyst
6 62 (9.44%) Lead
7 53 (8.07%) Tester
8 47 (7.15%) Senior Developer
9 39 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (5.18%) Software Test Engineer
10 34 (5.18%) Software Tester
11 29 (4.41%) QA Engineer
12 28 (4.26%) Development Engineer
13 26 (3.96%) Test Automation Engineer
14 24 (3.65%) Embedded Engineer
14 24 (3.65%) Software Development Engineer
15 23 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
16 22 (3.35%) Software Developer
17 21 (3.20%) Junior
17 21 (3.20%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.13%) .NET
2 41 (6.24%) Playwright
3 40 (6.09%) HTML
4 36 (5.48%) React
5 26 (3.96%) REST
6 24 (3.65%) XML
7 19 (2.89%) ASP.NET
8 16 (2.44%) CSS
9 15 (2.28%) SOAP
10 14 (2.13%) Node.js
10 14 (2.13%) RESTful
11 12 (1.83%) Spring
12 11 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (1.67%) Swagger
13 10 (1.52%) JSON
14 9 (1.37%) .NET Framework
14 9 (1.37%) React Native
15 8 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
15 8 (1.22%) Middleware
15 8 (1.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.52%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.18%) Algorithms
3 26 (3.96%) Embedded Systems
4 25 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.28%) Client/Server
7 14 (2.13%) Robotics
8 13 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.98%) FPGA
8 13 (1.98%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.37%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.37%) Life Science
11 9 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.22%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.22%) Verilog
12 8 (1.22%) VHDL
12 8 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.18%) Windows
2 67 (10.20%) Linux
3 20 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.07%) CentOS
5 5 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.61%) Unix
7 3 (0.46%) Android
7 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.46%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.46%) VMS
8 2 (0.30%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.30%) zOS
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.15%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (39.73%) Test Automation
2 235 (35.77%) Agile
3 192 (29.22%) Software Engineering
4 171 (26.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 148 (22.53%) CI/CD
6 144 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (21.61%) DevOps
8 99 (15.07%) Code Quality
9 96 (14.61%) Mentoring
10 93 (14.16%) Scrum
11 88 (13.39%) AI
12 87 (13.24%) SDLC
13 77 (11.72%) Validation
14 76 (11.57%) Test Strategy
15 75 (11.42%) Computer Science
16 72 (10.96%) Regression Testing
17 62 (9.44%) Manual Testing
18 48 (7.31%) Test Scripting
19 45 (6.85%) User Acceptance Testing
20 43 (6.54%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 187 (28.46%) Python
2 118 (17.96%) SQL
3 98 (14.92%) C#
4 78 (11.87%) C++
5 75 (11.42%) JavaScript
6 73 (11.11%) Java
7 56 (8.52%) C
8 44 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 23 (3.50%) MATLAB
10 20 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 15 (2.28%) Bash
13 12 (1.83%) Go
13 12 (1.83%) PHP
14 9 (1.37%) Julia
14 9 (1.37%) Rust
15 8 (1.22%) Embedded C
15 8 (1.22%) Groovy
15 8 (1.22%) R
16 7 (1.07%) VBA
Qualifications
1 177 (26.94%) Degree
2 114 (17.35%) Security Cleared
3 68 (10.35%) SC Cleared
4 46 (7.00%) ISTQB
5 41 (6.24%) DV Cleared
6 37 (5.63%) Master's Degree
7 33 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.52%) ISEB
9 10 (1.52%) PhD
10 8 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.61%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.61%) CIPD
13 4 (0.61%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.30%) HND
15 2 (0.30%) MCSA
15 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (28.01%) QA
2 36 (5.48%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.04%) Software Quality Assurance
4 14 (2.13%) GDPR
5 11 (1.67%) SLA
6 10 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.37%) WCAG
8 5 (0.76%) DO-254
8 5 (0.76%) PMO
9 4 (0.61%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) IEC 61131
11 2 (0.30%) MISRA
11 2 (0.30%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) DO-160
12 1 (0.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 42 (6.39%) Docker
2 27 (4.11%) Firmware
3 16 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (2.13%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.76%) KVM
8 2 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.15%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.74%) Terraform
3 14 (2.13%) Ansible
4 13 (1.98%) Grafana
5 9 (1.37%) Kibana
6 8 (1.22%) logstash
7 6 (0.91%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.76%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.61%) SCCM
9 4 (0.61%) SCOM
10 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.46%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.46%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.30%) Rancher
12 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 60 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.11%) Oracle
3 18 (2.74%) Splunk
4 17 (2.59%) VMware
5 11 (1.67%) Citrix
6 10 (1.52%) Adobe
6 10 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.37%) Intel
8 8 (1.22%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.22%) IBM
8 8 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.76%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.76%) Avid
9 5 (0.76%) HP
9 5 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.76%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.61%) EMC
10 4 (0.61%) Google
10 4 (0.61%) SYSPRO
10 4 (0.61%) Xilinx