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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 260 177
Rank change year-on-year -2 -83 -56
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 622 523 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.25% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.37% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 452 376 1,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,954 £41,000 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

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 63,352 38,114 76,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.77% 91.23% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 44,748 21,402 54,898
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,898 £29,605
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,927 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 3 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 3 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 +9 153 £47,500 -9.52% 77
London -42 150 £62,500 -2.34% 80
North of England -16 100 £55,000 +22.22% 44
South West -47 76 £48,750 -11.36% 37
Midlands -29 68 £55,000 +29.41% 37
East of England +30 67 £55,000 +3.77% 54
North West +11 57 £54,636 -12.58% 24
West Midlands -25 45 £62,500 +316.67% 21
East Midlands -18 23 £55,000 +5.77% 16
North East -32 22 £57,500 +43.75% 10
Yorkshire -49 21 £43,211 +32.96% 10
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 15 (2.41%) IIS
2 10 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.13%) Confluence
4 5 (0.80%) CMS
4 5 (0.80%) WordPress
5 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.64%) Moodle
6 2 (0.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.77%) Simulink
4 5 (0.80%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.80%) DaVinci Resolve
4 5 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
1 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 117 (18.81%) Azure
2 109 (17.52%) AWS
3 39 (6.27%) GCP
4 37 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (3.70%) Serverless
6 22 (3.54%) GitHub
7 15 (2.41%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (1.93%) BrowserStack
9 12 (1.93%) SaaS
10 10 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 9 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
14 4 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.64%) Azure Functions
15 3 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.77%) VPN
2 8 (1.29%) Broadband
2 8 (1.29%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.80%) HTTP
3 5 (0.80%) SNMP
4 4 (0.64%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.32%) LTE
6 2 (0.32%) Modbus
6 2 (0.32%) MQTT
6 2 (0.32%) Network Security
6 2 (0.32%) Wireless
7 1 (0.16%) 5G
7 1 (0.16%) AMQP
7 1 (0.16%) ATM
7 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.16%) DNS
7 1 (0.16%) SSL
7 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.41%) OLTP
4 13 (2.09%) Power BI
5 12 (1.93%) DynamoDB
6 11 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.77%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.29%) MySQL
8 8 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.13%) InfluxDB
9 7 (1.13%) Spark SQL
10 6 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.96%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.64%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.32%) Big Data
12 2 (0.32%) Db2
12 2 (0.32%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 70 (11.25%) Git
2 65 (10.45%) JIRA
3 50 (8.04%) GitLab
4 47 (7.56%) Selenium
5 32 (5.14%) Jenkins
6 22 (3.54%) Postman
7 20 (3.22%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.73%) TestRail
9 15 (2.41%) Zephyr
10 14 (2.25%) JUnit
11 13 (2.09%) JMeter
12 12 (1.93%) Cucumber
13 11 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (1.45%) SoapUI
14 9 (1.45%) WebDriver
15 8 (1.29%) REST Assured
15 8 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (1.13%) Claude Code
16 7 (1.13%) Robot Framework
16 7 (1.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 178 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 99 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (12.06%) Finance
4 35 (5.63%) Electronics
5 27 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (4.34%) Law
6 24 (3.86%) Manufacturing
7 22 (3.54%) Banking
8 16 (2.57%) Retail
9 13 (2.09%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.77%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.77%) Games
11 10 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.45%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.13%) Advertising
14 7 (1.13%) Military
14 7 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.96%) Back Office
15 6 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 145 (23.31%) Senior
2 109 (17.52%) Software Engineer
3 70 (11.25%) Test Engineer
4 66 (10.61%) Developer
5 57 (9.16%) Analyst
6 56 (9.00%) Lead
7 52 (8.36%) Tester
8 44 (7.07%) Senior Developer
9 36 (5.79%) Development Engineer
9 36 (5.79%) Software Tester
10 34 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (5.31%) Software Test Engineer
12 32 (5.14%) Software Development Engineer
13 29 (4.66%) Test Development Engineer
14 25 (4.02%) QA Engineer
15 24 (3.86%) Test Automation Engineer
16 20 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 20 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (3.22%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.22%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.52%) .NET
2 40 (6.43%) HTML
3 36 (5.79%) Playwright
4 32 (5.14%) React
5 24 (3.86%) XML
6 22 (3.54%) REST
6 22 (3.54%) SOAP
7 14 (2.25%) ASP.NET
7 14 (2.25%) CSS
7 14 (2.25%) Node.js
8 13 (2.09%) RESTful
9 11 (1.77%) Spring
10 10 (1.61%) JSON
11 9 (1.45%) React Native
11 9 (1.45%) Swagger
12 8 (1.29%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.29%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (1.29%) LangChain
12 8 (1.29%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.47%) Algorithms
3 20 (3.22%) Embedded Systems
4 18 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.25%) FPGA
7 13 (2.09%) Client/Server
8 12 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.93%) Robotics
9 11 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.61%) Life Science
11 9 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.45%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.29%) Reinsurance
12 8 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
13 7 (1.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 69 (11.09%) Windows
2 51 (8.20%) Linux
3 20 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.13%) CentOS
5 4 (0.64%) Unix
6 3 (0.48%) Android
6 3 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.48%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.32%) VMS
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (40.19%) Test Automation
2 214 (34.41%) Agile
3 164 (26.37%) Software Engineering
4 144 (23.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 131 (21.06%) DevOps
6 128 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (20.26%) CI/CD
8 89 (14.31%) Scrum
9 86 (13.83%) Code Quality
10 81 (13.02%) AI
11 80 (12.86%) Computer Science
11 80 (12.86%) Mentoring
12 79 (12.70%) SDLC
13 68 (10.93%) Test Strategy
14 65 (10.45%) Validation
15 62 (9.97%) Regression Testing
16 59 (9.49%) Manual Testing
17 43 (6.91%) Test Scripting
18 38 (6.11%) Non-Functional Testing
18 38 (6.11%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 162 (26.05%) Python
2 120 (19.29%) SQL
3 90 (14.47%) C#
4 70 (11.25%) JavaScript
5 69 (11.09%) Java
6 66 (10.61%) C++
7 47 (7.56%) C
8 41 (6.59%) TypeScript
9 24 (3.86%) MATLAB
10 19 (3.05%) PL/SQL
11 18 (2.89%) PowerShell
12 13 (2.09%) Bash
13 12 (1.93%) PHP
14 11 (1.77%) Go
15 9 (1.45%) Julia
16 8 (1.29%) Embedded C
16 8 (1.29%) R
17 7 (1.13%) Groovy
17 7 (1.13%) Rust
17 7 (1.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 178 (28.62%) Degree
2 95 (15.27%) Security Cleared
3 54 (8.68%) SC Cleared
4 50 (8.04%) ISTQB
5 37 (5.95%) Master's Degree
6 36 (5.79%) DV Cleared
7 34 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.93%) PhD
10 9 (1.45%) ISEB
11 8 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.64%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (0.64%) CIPD
14 4 (0.64%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.32%) BC Cleared
16 2 (0.32%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (27.97%) QA
2 37 (5.95%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.38%) Software Quality Assurance
4 13 (2.09%) SLA
5 12 (1.93%) GDPR
6 8 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.96%) WCAG
8 5 (0.80%) PMO
9 4 (0.64%) DO-254
9 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.48%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.32%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.32%) JTAG
11 2 (0.32%) MISRA
11 2 (0.32%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (5.14%) Docker
2 29 (4.66%) Firmware
3 17 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.80%) KVM
8 2 (0.32%) Terminal Server
8 2 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.73%) Terraform
3 14 (2.25%) Ansible
4 12 (1.93%) Grafana
5 8 (1.29%) Kibana
5 8 (1.29%) logstash
6 6 (0.96%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.80%) SCCM
7 5 (0.80%) SCOM
8 4 (0.64%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.48%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.48%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (0.48%) Rancher
9 3 (0.48%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.16%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.82%) Oracle
3 18 (2.89%) VMware
4 16 (2.57%) Splunk
5 11 (1.77%) Citrix
6 10 (1.61%) Adobe
6 10 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.45%) IBM
8 8 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.13%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.13%) Google
10 6 (0.96%) Intel
11 5 (0.80%) Avid
11 5 (0.80%) HP
11 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.80%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.64%) Altera
12 4 (0.64%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.64%) EMC
12 4 (0.64%) SYSPRO