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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 243 174
Rank change year-on-year -28 -69 -81
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 612 534 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.32% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.44% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 448 375 1,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,938 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
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 62,329 37,196 76,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.59% 92.18% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 43,937 20,499 55,155
10th Percentile £30,806 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,926 £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 £72,500
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% -9.54%

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 27 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 27 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
South East -7 152 £47,500 -8.65% 68
London -39 150 £60,000 -6.25% 45
North of England -12 99 £53,386 +18.64% 35
South West -38 76 £48,750 -11.36% 21
Midlands -44 66 £55,000 +29.41% 27
East of England +23 62 £50,000 -5.66% 45
North West +20 55 £54,636 -12.58% 15
West Midlands -22 44 £62,500 +316.67% 16
North East -25 22 £57,500 +43.75% 15
East Midlands -31 22 £55,000 +14.58% 11
Yorkshire -51 22 £40,000 +23.08% 6
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 (2.45%) IIS
2 10 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.14%) Confluence
4 5 (0.82%) CMS
4 5 (0.82%) WordPress
5 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.65%) Moodle
6 2 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.80%) Simulink
4 5 (0.82%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.82%) DaVinci Resolve
4 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.49%) 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 (0.16%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 117 (19.12%) Azure
2 109 (17.81%) AWS
3 40 (6.54%) GCP
4 37 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (3.59%) GitHub
5 22 (3.59%) Serverless
6 15 (2.45%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.12%) BrowserStack
9 12 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (1.96%) SaaS
10 10 (1.63%) OpenShift
11 9 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
13 7 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.82%) Tricentis Tosca
15 4 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.65%) Azure Functions
16 3 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.80%) VPN
2 8 (1.31%) Broadband
2 8 (1.31%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.82%) HTTP
3 5 (0.82%) SNMP
4 4 (0.65%) Software-Defined Radio
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%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.33%) Wireless
6 1 (0.16%) 5G
6 1 (0.16%) AMQP
6 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.45%) OLTP
4 13 (2.12%) Power BI
5 12 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 11 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.80%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.31%) MySQL
8 8 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.14%) InfluxDB
9 7 (1.14%) Spark SQL
10 6 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.82%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.33%) Big Data
13 2 (0.33%) Db2
13 2 (0.33%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 68 (11.11%) Git
2 64 (10.46%) JIRA
3 50 (8.17%) Selenium
4 49 (8.01%) GitLab
5 31 (5.07%) Jenkins
6 24 (3.92%) Postman
7 20 (3.27%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.78%) TestRail
9 14 (2.29%) JUnit
9 14 (2.29%) Zephyr
10 13 (2.12%) JMeter
11 12 (1.96%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.80%) SoapUI
12 11 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
12 11 (1.80%) WebDriver
13 9 (1.47%) REST Assured
14 8 (1.31%) SpecFlow
15 7 (1.14%) LoadRunner
15 7 (1.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 176 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 97 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (12.25%) Finance
4 33 (5.39%) Electronics
5 25 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (4.08%) Law
6 23 (3.76%) Manufacturing
7 22 (3.59%) Banking
8 17 (2.78%) Retail
9 12 (1.96%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.80%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.80%) Games
11 9 (1.47%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.14%) Military
13 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.98%) Advertising
14 6 (0.98%) Back Office
14 6 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 139 (22.71%) Senior
2 106 (17.32%) Software Engineer
3 71 (11.60%) Test Engineer
4 65 (10.62%) Developer
5 58 (9.48%) Analyst
6 55 (8.99%) Lead
6 55 (8.99%) Tester
7 43 (7.03%) Senior Developer
8 38 (6.21%) Software Tester
9 37 (6.05%) Development Engineer
10 33 (5.39%) Software Development Engineer
10 33 (5.39%) Software Test Engineer
11 32 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
12 30 (4.90%) Test Development Engineer
13 25 (4.08%) Test Automation Engineer
14 24 (3.92%) QA Engineer
15 20 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 20 (3.27%) Software Developer
16 19 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (3.10%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.99%) .NET
2 43 (7.03%) HTML
3 37 (6.05%) Playwright
4 32 (5.23%) React
5 24 (3.92%) SOAP
5 24 (3.92%) XML
6 22 (3.59%) REST
7 15 (2.45%) ASP.NET
8 14 (2.29%) CSS
8 14 (2.29%) Node.js
8 14 (2.29%) RESTful
9 11 (1.80%) JSON
10 10 (1.63%) Spring
11 9 (1.47%) React Native
11 9 (1.47%) Swagger
12 8 (1.31%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.31%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (1.31%) LangChain
12 8 (1.31%) LlamaIndex
13 7 (1.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 33 (5.39%) Algorithms
3 18 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (2.61%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.12%) Client/Server
5 13 (2.12%) FPGA
6 11 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.80%) Robotics
7 10 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.63%) Life Science
7 10 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.31%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
10 7 (1.14%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 68 (11.11%) Windows
2 47 (7.68%) Linux
3 20 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.14%) CentOS
5 4 (0.65%) Unix
6 3 (0.49%) Android
6 3 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.49%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.33%) VMS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.33%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (40.69%) Test Automation
2 210 (34.31%) Agile
3 157 (25.65%) Software Engineering
4 142 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 129 (21.08%) DevOps
6 126 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (19.93%) CI/CD
8 90 (14.71%) Scrum
9 83 (13.56%) Code Quality
10 80 (13.07%) Computer Science
11 79 (12.91%) AI
12 78 (12.75%) Mentoring
12 78 (12.75%) SDLC
13 67 (10.95%) Test Strategy
14 60 (9.80%) Regression Testing
14 60 (9.80%) Validation
15 59 (9.64%) Manual Testing
16 43 (7.03%) Test Scripting
17 42 (6.86%) Non-Functional Testing
18 39 (6.37%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 158 (25.82%) Python
2 125 (20.42%) SQL
3 93 (15.20%) C#
4 73 (11.93%) Java
5 71 (11.60%) JavaScript
6 64 (10.46%) C++
7 45 (7.35%) C
8 42 (6.86%) TypeScript
9 24 (3.92%) MATLAB
10 20 (3.27%) PL/SQL
11 17 (2.78%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.96%) Bash
12 12 (1.96%) PHP
13 11 (1.80%) Go
14 9 (1.47%) Julia
15 8 (1.31%) Embedded C
15 8 (1.31%) R
16 7 (1.14%) Groovy
16 7 (1.14%) VBA
17 6 (0.98%) Rust
Qualifications
1 178 (29.08%) Degree
2 92 (15.03%) Security Cleared
3 56 (9.15%) ISTQB
4 52 (8.50%) SC Cleared
5 36 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 35 (5.72%) DV Cleared
7 34 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.96%) PhD
10 10 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (1.47%) ISEB
12 7 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 5 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.82%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (0.65%) CIPD
16 2 (0.33%) BC Cleared
16 2 (0.33%) CSQA
16 2 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (28.43%) QA
2 39 (6.37%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.43%) Software Quality Assurance
4 12 (1.96%) SLA
5 11 (1.80%) GDPR
6 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.98%) WCAG
8 5 (0.82%) PMO
9 4 (0.65%) DO-254
9 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.49%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.33%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.33%) JTAG
11 2 (0.33%) MISRA
11 2 (0.33%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (5.07%) Docker
2 27 (4.41%) Firmware
3 17 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (2.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.82%) KVM
8 2 (0.33%) Terminal Server
8 2 (0.33%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.78%) Terraform
3 13 (2.12%) Ansible
4 11 (1.80%) Grafana
5 8 (1.31%) Kibana
5 8 (1.31%) logstash
6 6 (0.98%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.82%) SCCM
7 5 (0.82%) SCOM
8 4 (0.65%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.49%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.49%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (0.49%) Rancher
9 3 (0.49%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.16%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 64 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.23%) Oracle
3 18 (2.94%) VMware
4 16 (2.61%) Splunk
5 11 (1.80%) Citrix
6 10 (1.63%) Adobe
6 10 (1.63%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.47%) IBM
8 8 (1.31%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.14%) Google
10 6 (0.98%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.82%) Avid
11 5 (0.82%) HP
11 5 (0.82%) Intel
11 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.82%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.65%) Altera
12 4 (0.65%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.65%) SYSPRO
13 3 (0.49%) Veeam