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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 244 179
Rank change year-on-year -24 -65 -84
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 598 543 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.39% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.49% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 434 379 1,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,375 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -10.71%

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 60,313 36,433 75,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.30% 93.06% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 41,346 19,656 55,190
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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
London -23 158 £60,000 -6.25% 70
South East +5 156 £47,539 -9.45% 72
North of England -17 98 £50,000 +11.11% 39
Midlands -35 66 £55,000 +26.44% 39
South West -51 65 £48,750 -11.36% 36
North West +18 56 £51,772 -12.25% 24
East of England +7 48 £47,500 -10.38% 61
West Midlands -37 43 £62,500 +316.67% 23
Yorkshire -50 26 £37,663 +21.01% 4
East Midlands -37 23 £55,000 +14.58% 16
North East -31 16 £55,000 +37.50% 12
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 12 (2.01%) IIS
2 7 (1.17%) Confluence
2 7 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.84%) CMS
3 5 (0.84%) Moodle
3 5 (0.84%) WordPress
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.33%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.00%) Simulink
4 5 (0.84%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.84%) DaVinci Resolve
4 5 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
1 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 110 (18.39%) Azure
2 104 (17.39%) AWS
3 42 (7.02%) GCP
4 37 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (3.34%) GitHub
6 18 (3.01%) Serverless
7 14 (2.34%) BrowserStack
8 12 (2.01%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.01%) SaaS
9 11 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.34%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
13 4 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.67%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.50%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.34%) Broadband
1 8 (1.34%) Ethernet
1 8 (1.34%) VPN
2 5 (0.84%) HTTP
2 5 (0.84%) SNMP
3 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.33%) LTE
5 2 (0.33%) Modbus
5 2 (0.33%) MQTT
5 2 (0.33%) Network Security
5 2 (0.33%) Wireless
6 1 (0.17%) 5G
6 1 (0.17%) AMQP
6 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.17%) DNS
6 1 (0.17%) SSL
6 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (2.84%) OLTP
4 11 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.67%) Power BI
6 8 (1.34%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.34%) MySQL
7 7 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.17%) Spark SQL
7 7 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.00%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.84%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.67%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.33%) Big Data
11 2 (0.33%) Db2
11 2 (0.33%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 73 (12.21%) JIRA
2 63 (10.54%) Git
3 56 (9.36%) Selenium
4 46 (7.69%) GitLab
5 34 (5.69%) Postman
6 27 (4.52%) Jenkins
7 21 (3.51%) SoapUI
7 21 (3.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 21 (3.51%) WebDriver
8 17 (2.84%) Cypress.io
9 15 (2.51%) JUnit
9 15 (2.51%) TestRail
10 14 (2.34%) Zephyr
11 12 (2.01%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.84%) JMeter
13 10 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (1.34%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.17%) LabVIEW
15 7 (1.17%) LoadRunner
15 7 (1.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 166 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 85 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (13.55%) Finance
4 31 (5.18%) Electronics
5 24 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (3.85%) Law
7 22 (3.68%) Banking
8 21 (3.51%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.18%) Retail
10 13 (2.17%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.84%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.84%) Games
12 9 (1.51%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Back Office
14 6 (1.00%) Marketing
14 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.84%) Publishing
15 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (22.74%) Senior
2 103 (17.22%) Software Engineer
3 76 (12.71%) Test Engineer
4 66 (11.04%) Developer
5 62 (10.37%) Tester
6 58 (9.70%) Lead
7 55 (9.20%) Analyst
8 42 (7.02%) Senior Developer
8 42 (7.02%) Software Tester
9 39 (6.52%) Development Engineer
9 39 (6.52%) Software Test Engineer
10 35 (5.85%) Software Development Engineer
11 32 (5.35%) Test Development Engineer
12 29 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (4.01%) Test Analyst
13 24 (4.01%) Test Automation Engineer
14 21 (3.51%) QA Engineer
15 20 (3.34%) Oracle Developer
15 20 (3.34%) Senior Oracle Developer
15 20 (3.34%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (11.04%) .NET
2 53 (8.86%) HTML
3 36 (6.02%) SOAP
4 34 (5.69%) Playwright
5 31 (5.18%) React
6 25 (4.18%) XML
7 21 (3.51%) REST
8 16 (2.68%) Node.js
9 13 (2.17%) ASP.NET
10 12 (2.01%) CSS
10 12 (2.01%) JSON
11 11 (1.84%) RESTful
12 10 (1.67%) Spring
13 9 (1.51%) React Native
14 8 (1.34%) .NET Framework
14 8 (1.34%) LangChain
14 8 (1.34%) LlamaIndex
15 7 (1.17%) PySpark
16 5 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.53%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.35%) Algorithms
3 19 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (2.84%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.34%) Embedded Systems
6 13 (2.17%) Client/Server
7 12 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.67%) Life Science
8 10 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.67%) Robotics
9 9 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.51%) FPGA
10 8 (1.34%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.17%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.00%) Blog
12 6 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 54 (9.03%) Windows
2 42 (7.02%) Linux
3 13 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.84%) Android
4 5 (0.84%) CentOS
5 4 (0.67%) Unix
6 3 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.33%) VMS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.33%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (41.47%) Test Automation
2 206 (34.45%) Agile
3 152 (25.42%) Software Engineering
4 140 (23.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 124 (20.74%) DevOps
6 118 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (18.73%) CI/CD
8 92 (15.38%) Scrum
9 81 (13.55%) Computer Science
10 79 (13.21%) Mentoring
11 75 (12.54%) AI
11 75 (12.54%) Code Quality
11 75 (12.54%) SDLC
12 62 (10.37%) Test Strategy
13 54 (9.03%) Manual Testing
13 54 (9.03%) Non-Functional Testing
13 54 (9.03%) Regression Testing
14 50 (8.36%) Test Scripting
15 49 (8.19%) Validation
16 45 (7.53%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (24.41%) Python
2 124 (20.74%) SQL
3 98 (16.39%) C#
4 86 (14.38%) Java
5 69 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 59 (9.87%) C++
7 40 (6.69%) C
7 40 (6.69%) TypeScript
8 22 (3.68%) PL/SQL
9 21 (3.51%) MATLAB
10 14 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.01%) PHP
12 11 (1.84%) Go
13 9 (1.51%) Bash
14 8 (1.34%) Julia
15 7 (1.17%) Groovy
15 7 (1.17%) R
15 7 (1.17%) VBA
16 6 (1.00%) Embedded C
16 6 (1.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 178 (29.77%) Degree
2 83 (13.88%) Security Cleared
3 63 (10.54%) ISTQB
4 49 (8.19%) SC Cleared
5 35 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (5.85%) Master's Degree
6 32 (5.35%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 12 (2.01%) PhD
9 10 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 9 (1.51%) ISEB
11 6 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.67%) CIPD
14 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (28.09%) QA
2 39 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.51%) Software Quality Assurance
4 12 (2.01%) SLA
5 10 (1.67%) GDPR
6 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.84%) PMO
8 4 (0.67%) DO-254
8 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.67%) WCAG
9 3 (0.50%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.33%) JTAG
10 2 (0.33%) MISRA
10 2 (0.33%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.17%) Automotive SPICE
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 27 (4.52%) Docker
1 27 (4.52%) Firmware
2 14 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.01%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.84%) KVM
6 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.33%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.51%) Terraform
3 10 (1.67%) Ansible
4 8 (1.34%) Grafana
5 6 (1.00%) Kibana
5 6 (1.00%) logstash
6 5 (0.84%) SCCM
6 5 (0.84%) SCOM
7 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.50%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.50%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.50%) Norton AntiVirus
8 3 (0.50%) Rancher
8 3 (0.50%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 58 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.35%) Oracle
3 16 (2.68%) VMware
4 14 (2.34%) Splunk
5 10 (1.67%) Adobe
5 10 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.51%) IBM
7 8 (1.34%) Citrix
8 7 (1.17%) Google
9 6 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.84%) Avid
10 5 (0.84%) HP
10 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.84%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.67%) Altera
11 4 (0.67%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.67%) SYSPRO
12 3 (0.50%) Apple
12 3 (0.50%) Veeam