System Testing Jobs in England

System Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 637 674
Rank change year-on-year +176 +37 -13
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 231 207 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 117 146 144
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,863 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +1.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £54,793 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £47,863 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% - -3.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

System 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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in England

System Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for System Testing in England

System Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for System Testing in England

System 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 System Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +87 71 £37,000 -40.80% 135
North of England +83 66 £47,863 +12.62% 84
North West +43 60 £47,863 +19.23% 50
Midlands +71 39 £47,500 +11.76% 83
East of England +67 29 £42,500 -34.62% 77
East Midlands +57 27 £47,500 +11.76% 34
West Midlands +57 12 £47,500 -13.64% 42
South West +112 11 £45,000 -21.74% 59
London +87 10 £57,750 +5.00% 90
Yorkshire +61 5 £42,000 -11.58% 27
North East - 1 £52,500 - 7
System Testing
UK

System 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 2 (0.87%) Confluence
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.43%) Apache
2 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 54 (23.38%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (21.65%) Simulink
3 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.73%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.43%) iTrent
3 1 (0.43%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.66%) Power Platform
2 18 (7.79%) OCI
3 16 (6.93%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (5.63%) Azure
5 11 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (4.76%) PowerApps
6 6 (2.60%) AWS
7 5 (2.16%) Boomi
7 5 (2.16%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 5 (2.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.30%) CloudFront
9 2 (0.87%) SaaS
10 1 (0.43%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.43%) GCP
10 1 (0.43%) GitHub
10 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (28.14%) VPN
2 64 (27.71%) TCP/IP
3 18 (7.79%) ATM
3 18 (7.79%) VoIP
4 4 (1.73%) Intranet
5 1 (0.43%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.43%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.43%) GSM
5 1 (0.43%) LTE
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.43%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.43%) SSH
5 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.43%) UMTS
5 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.43%) WebEx
5 1 (0.43%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.90%) Power BI
2 7 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.30%) MySQL
5 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (28.14%) Cucumber
2 64 (27.71%) Robot Framework
3 14 (6.06%) Git
4 10 (4.33%) JIRA
5 6 (2.60%) Selenium
6 5 (2.16%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.30%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.43%) GitLab
9 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.43%) JUnit
9 1 (0.43%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.43%) Postman
9 1 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 134 (58.01%) Social Skills
2 69 (29.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (28.57%) Telecoms
4 51 (22.08%) Aerospace
5 18 (7.79%) Military
6 14 (6.06%) Finance
7 10 (4.33%) Aeronautics
7 10 (4.33%) Tech for Good
8 8 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.60%) Retail
10 4 (1.73%) Electronics
10 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Automotive
12 2 (0.87%) Back Office
12 2 (0.87%) Billing
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (32.03%) Test Engineer
2 68 (29.44%) Test Automation Engineer
3 66 (28.57%) Senior
4 54 (23.38%) Lead
5 53 (22.94%) Systems Engineer
6 50 (21.65%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 50 (21.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 50 (21.65%) Team Leader
7 21 (9.09%) Analyst
8 19 (8.23%) Field Engineer
9 18 (7.79%) Field Service Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) Cloud Specialist
10 12 (5.19%) Oracle Specialist
11 10 (4.33%) Application Development Manager
11 10 (4.33%) Applications Development Manager
11 10 (4.33%) Applications Manager
11 10 (4.33%) Development Manager
12 9 (3.90%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.46%) Systems Analyst
14 7 (3.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.63%) .NET
2 5 (2.16%) EDI
2 5 (2.16%) HTML
3 4 (1.73%) CSS
3 4 (1.73%) GraphQL
3 4 (1.73%) JSON
3 4 (1.73%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.73%) React
3 4 (1.73%) TensorFlow
3 4 (1.73%) XML
4 3 (1.30%) CakePHP
4 3 (1.30%) Laravel
4 3 (1.30%) Node.js
4 3 (1.30%) OpenCV
4 3 (1.30%) REST
4 3 (1.30%) WPF
5 2 (0.87%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.87%) LAMP
5 2 (0.87%) Middleware
5 2 (0.87%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (29.00%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (8.66%) Driving Licence
2 20 (8.66%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.30%) Educational Technology
4 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.43%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.43%) FPGA
5 1 (0.43%) Infotainment
5 1 (0.43%) IoT
5 1 (0.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.43%) SCADA
5 1 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (31.60%) Linux
2 71 (30.74%) Windows
3 3 (1.30%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (54.11%) Coaching
2 96 (41.56%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (37.66%) Mentoring
4 85 (36.80%) Test Automation
5 81 (35.06%) DevOps
6 73 (31.60%) Agile
7 65 (28.14%) Test Management
8 60 (25.97%) Project Management
9 51 (22.08%) Systems Engineering
10 50 (21.65%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 50 (21.65%) Safety Engineering
10 50 (21.65%) SysML
11 41 (17.75%) Technical Leadership
12 40 (17.32%) Software Delivery
13 36 (15.58%) Line Management
14 30 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (11.69%) Software Engineering
16 25 (10.82%) Business Continuity
17 20 (8.66%) Situational Awareness
18 18 (7.79%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.63%) Python
2 73 (31.60%) JavaScript
3 69 (29.87%) Bash
4 67 (29.00%) PowerShell
5 14 (6.06%) Java
6 12 (5.19%) SQL
7 10 (4.33%) C#
8 4 (1.73%) PHP
8 4 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.87%) C
9 2 (0.87%) C++
9 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.87%) Perl
9 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.43%) Ada
10 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.43%) Rust
10 1 (0.43%) Tcl
10 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 98 (42.42%) Degree
2 54 (23.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (9.96%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.79%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.60%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) ISEB
9 1 (0.43%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (35.06%) QA
2 10 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.43%) MISRA
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 66 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 50 (21.65%) MathWorks
3 22 (9.52%) Oracle
4 9 (3.90%) SAP
5 5 (2.16%) Dell
6 4 (1.73%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.30%) Cisco
7 3 (1.30%) IBM
7 3 (1.30%) Minitab
8 2 (0.87%) Cognos
8 2 (0.87%) Meraki
9 1 (0.43%) EMC
9 1 (0.43%) Polycom
9 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.43%) Yealink