Software Testing Jobs in England

Software Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 184 73
Rank change year-on-year +43 -111 +45
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 978 1,337 3,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.12% 1.57% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.83% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 556 1,077 1,247
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.55% +3.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £81,875 £86,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and 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 43,121 73,145 88,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.64% 85.85% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,789 53,950 52,293
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Midlands +124 350 £45,000 - 108
West Midlands +88 222 £42,500 -5.56% 73
South East +31 206 £59,000 +22.92% 185
London +11 170 £65,000 -10.34% 205
North of England -10 154 £52,500 -4.55% 129
East Midlands +113 128 £47,500 -3.71% 29
North West -15 106 £57,030 +3.69% 77
South West +33 59 £51,600 +3.20% 69
Yorkshire +21 41 £32,250 -41.36% 34
East of England -30 35 £57,500 +4.55% 74
North East +37 7 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Software Testing
UK

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (1.64%) Confluence
2 9 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.72%) WinCC
4 5 (0.51%) Apache
5 4 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (0.41%) IIS
5 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.20%) Appian
6 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.10%) JBoss
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 212 (21.68%) Simulink
2 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Maple
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.20%) iTrent
1 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.10%) Endur
2 1 (0.10%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (9.41%) Azure
2 91 (9.30%) AWS
3 50 (5.11%) SaaS
4 44 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (2.66%) GCP
6 22 (2.25%) GitHub
7 20 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (1.84%) Serverless
9 16 (1.64%) Power Platform
10 15 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (1.23%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.41%) Figma
16 4 (0.41%) Snowflake
17 3 (0.31%) Amazon SageMaker
17 3 (0.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.23%) 5G
1 12 (1.23%) LTE
2 11 (1.12%) Bluetooth
2 11 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (1.02%) Ethernet
4 8 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.51%) HTTP
5 5 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.41%) Network Security
6 4 (0.41%) Profibus
7 3 (0.31%) Internet
8 2 (0.20%) Firewall
8 2 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.20%) VPN
9 1 (0.10%) BGP
9 1 (0.10%) Broadband
9 1 (0.10%) DNS
9 1 (0.10%) GSM
9 1 (0.10%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.10%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.16%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.84%) MongoDB
4 18 (1.84%) MySQL
5 16 (1.64%) OLTP
6 15 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.02%) DynamoDB
8 9 (0.92%) Power BI
8 9 (0.92%) Redis
8 9 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.41%) Big Data
11 4 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.31%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.31%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 79 (8.08%) JIRA
2 74 (7.57%) Git
3 72 (7.36%) Selenium
4 34 (3.48%) Postman
5 30 (3.07%) Cypress.io
5 30 (3.07%) Jenkins
6 24 (2.45%) JUnit
7 23 (2.35%) JMeter
8 21 (2.15%) eggPlant
8 21 (2.15%) SpecFlow
9 19 (1.94%) Appium
10 16 (1.64%) TestRail
11 15 (1.53%) IntelliJ
12 14 (1.43%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.43%) MagicDraw
13 13 (1.33%) TestNG
14 11 (1.12%) NUnit
15 9 (0.92%) Maven
15 9 (0.92%) SoapUI
15 9 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 260 (26.58%) Aerospace
2 211 (21.57%) Automotive
3 183 (18.71%) Social Skills
4 98 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (6.34%) Finance
6 31 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (2.25%) Banking
9 19 (1.94%) Electronics
10 16 (1.64%) Games
11 15 (1.53%) Law
12 13 (1.33%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.23%) Publishing
14 11 (1.12%) Health Technology
14 11 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.12%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.92%) Retail
16 8 (0.82%) Marketing
17 7 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 242 (24.74%) Senior
2 222 (22.70%) Software Engineer
3 137 (14.01%) Principal Engineer
4 124 (12.68%) Systems Engineer
5 119 (12.17%) Developer
6 106 (10.84%) Development Engineer
7 105 (10.74%) Software Development Engineer
8 104 (10.63%) Lead
9 94 (9.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 84 (8.59%) Analyst
11 81 (8.28%) Test Engineer
12 64 (6.54%) Principal Software Engineer
13 63 (6.44%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 60 (6.13%) Software Test Engineer
15 55 (5.62%) Senior Developer
16 47 (4.81%) Senior Test Engineer
16 47 (4.81%) Test Analyst
17 45 (4.60%) Software Developer
18 44 (4.50%) Senior Software Test Engineer
19 41 (4.19%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (8.69%) .NET
2 66 (6.75%) React
3 45 (4.60%) REST
4 44 (4.50%) HTML
5 40 (4.09%) XML
6 36 (3.68%) ASP.NET
7 33 (3.37%) RESTful
8 30 (3.07%) .NET Core
8 30 (3.07%) Node.js
9 27 (2.76%) AngularJS
9 27 (2.76%) Kafka
9 27 (2.76%) Web Services
10 24 (2.45%) Playwright
10 24 (2.45%) SOAP
11 23 (2.35%) CSS
12 20 (2.04%) .NET Framework
13 18 (1.84%) GraphQL
13 18 (1.84%) Swagger
14 16 (1.64%) Entity Framework
15 15 (1.53%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.01%) Product Ownership
2 44 (4.50%) Mobile App
3 30 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.04%) Robotics
6 17 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
7 16 (1.64%) Acoustics
8 13 (1.33%) SCADA
9 12 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.12%) EPoS
10 11 (1.12%) IoT
10 11 (1.12%) NB-IoT
10 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.82%) FPGA
13 7 (0.72%) Driving Licence
14 6 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.95%) Linux
2 60 (6.13%) Windows
3 30 (3.07%) Android
4 20 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 14 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.23%) Unix
7 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Fedora
8 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (56.54%) Agile
2 359 (36.71%) Software Engineering
3 325 (33.23%) Test Automation
4 291 (29.75%) Validation
5 217 (22.19%) Systems Engineering
6 208 (21.27%) SDLC
7 182 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (15.44%) Computer Science
9 135 (13.80%) Waterfall
10 111 (11.35%) CI/CD
11 91 (9.30%) Mathematics
12 84 (8.59%) DevOps
13 80 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 79 (8.08%) Code Quality
15 78 (7.98%) Manual Testing
15 78 (7.98%) Scrum
16 73 (7.46%) Regression Testing
17 62 (6.34%) UML
18 58 (5.93%) Test Strategy
19 57 (5.83%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 212 (21.68%) MATLAB
2 165 (16.87%) Python
3 163 (16.67%) SQL
4 147 (15.03%) Java
5 146 (14.93%) C#
6 106 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 75 (7.67%) C++
8 60 (6.13%) TypeScript
9 43 (4.40%) C
10 36 (3.68%) Rust
11 28 (2.86%) Bash
12 26 (2.66%) PL/SQL
13 23 (2.35%) Ada
14 15 (1.53%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.12%) Fortran
16 8 (0.82%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.82%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.72%) Scala
17 7 (0.72%) Swift
18 5 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 381 (38.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 331 (33.84%) Degree
3 58 (5.93%) ISTQB
4 47 (4.81%) Security Cleared
5 39 (3.99%) Master's Degree
6 35 (3.58%) SC Cleared
7 32 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.66%) PhD
9 16 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 14 (1.43%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
12 11 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.82%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.41%) CISSP
16 4 (0.41%) ISEB
17 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (16.67%) QA
2 36 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 16 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.61%) Def Stans
5 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.31%) GDPR
6 3 (0.31%) PMBOK
6 3 (0.31%) WCAG
7 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.10%) COBIT
8 1 (0.10%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.10%) IEC 61131
8 1 (0.10%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.10%) JTAG
8 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (5.21%) Docker
2 11 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (1.12%) vSphere
3 5 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) HDFS
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.74%) Terraform
3 16 (1.64%) Ansible
4 11 (1.12%) Puppet
5 10 (1.02%) Argo
6 8 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (0.31%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.31%) Grafana
8 3 (0.31%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 81 (8.28%) Siemens
2 80 (8.18%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.95%) Oracle
4 21 (2.15%) Keysight
5 20 (2.04%) VMware
6 16 (1.64%) Zoho
7 13 (1.33%) Google
8 9 (0.92%) UiPath
9 6 (0.61%) IBM
9 6 (0.61%) New Relic
9 6 (0.61%) Rockwell
9 6 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.51%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.51%) Xilinx
11 4 (0.41%) Allen-Bradley
11 4 (0.41%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.41%) Splunk
12 3 (0.31%) AVEVA
13 2 (0.20%) HP
13 2 (0.20%) Wonderware