Test Engineer Jobs in England

Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Test Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 519 487
Rank change year-on-year +377 -32 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 1,124 343 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.32% 0.39% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% 0.41% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 147 185 347
10th Percentile £38,825 £32,600 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,800 £65,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -16.67% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer 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 +225 404 £60,000 +33.33% 111
East of England +152 378 £42,000 -6.67% 75
Midlands +182 232 £34,000 -20.00% 82
East Midlands +158 221 £33,000 -12.00% 26
South West +96 37 £52,500 +5.00% 72
London +128 31 £46,500 -27.06% 62
North of England +36 29 £46,250 +5.71% 86
North West +9 21 £45,000 -5.26% 40
West Midlands +28 11 £60,000 +41.18% 54
Yorkshire +51 8 £59,800 +54.32% 24
Test Engineer
UK

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1,013 (90.12%) Degree
2 818 (72.78%) Mentoring
3 817 (72.69%) Coaching
4 790 (70.28%) Validation
5 774 (68.86%) Verification and Validation
6 745 (66.28%) Test Strategy
7 738 (65.66%) Electronics
8 734 (65.30%) HND
8 734 (65.30%) 5G
9 732 (65.12%) Customer Requirements
10 731 (65.04%) Driving Licence
10 731 (65.04%) Bluetooth
11 730 (64.95%) GSM
11 730 (64.95%) UMTS
11 730 (64.95%) Wi-Fi
11 730 (64.95%) Wireless
11 730 (64.95%) LTE
12 221 (19.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 181 (16.10%) Test Automation
14 164 (14.59%) Manufacturing
15 160 (14.23%) Microsoft
16 157 (13.97%) Microsoft Office
17 152 (13.52%) Safety Engineering
18 108 (9.61%) Python
19 96 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
20 93 (8.27%) QA
21 86 (7.65%) Software Testing
22 82 (7.30%) JavaScript
22 82 (7.30%) Social Skills
23 80 (7.12%) Agile

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 10 (0.89%) Confluence
2 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.18%) MTS
Applications
1 157 (13.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.089%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.089%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (1.60%) Azure
2 14 (1.25%) AWS
3 7 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (0.62%) GitHub
4 5 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (0.44%) GCP
5 3 (0.27%) Amazon S3
5 3 (0.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (0.27%) Serverless
6 2 (0.18%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (0.18%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.18%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (0.089%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.089%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.089%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.089%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.089%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.089%) SaaS
7 1 (0.089%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 734 (65.30%) 5G
2 731 (65.04%) Bluetooth
3 730 (64.95%) GSM
3 730 (64.95%) LTE
3 730 (64.95%) UMTS
3 730 (64.95%) Wi-Fi
3 730 (64.95%) Wireless
4 64 (5.69%) TCP/IP
4 64 (5.69%) VPN
5 4 (0.36%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.089%) DHCP
6 1 (0.089%) DNS
6 1 (0.089%) DVB
6 1 (0.089%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.089%) FlexRay
6 1 (0.089%) MQTT
6 1 (0.089%) SAN
6 1 (0.089%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.36%) Big Data
1 4 (0.36%) Delta Lake
1 4 (0.36%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.18%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.089%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.089%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.089%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.089%) Power BI
3 1 (0.089%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.089%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (6.32%) Robot Framework
2 68 (6.05%) Cucumber
3 35 (3.11%) Selenium
4 29 (2.58%) JIRA
5 21 (1.87%) Git
6 15 (1.33%) Postman
7 12 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.98%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.89%) JMeter
10 8 (0.71%) Jenkins
10 8 (0.71%) SoapUI
11 6 (0.53%) Appium
11 6 (0.53%) JUnit
11 6 (0.53%) Locust
11 6 (0.53%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.44%) GitLab
13 4 (0.36%) TestRail
14 3 (0.27%) NUnit
15 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
15 2 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 738 (65.66%) Electronics
2 221 (19.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 164 (14.59%) Manufacturing
4 82 (7.30%) Social Skills
5 65 (5.78%) Telecoms
6 19 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.36%) Cantonese Language
7 4 (0.36%) Finance
7 4 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (0.36%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.27%) Automotive
8 3 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.27%) Games
8 3 (0.27%) Law
8 3 (0.27%) Retail
9 2 (0.18%) Advertising
9 2 (0.18%) Legal
9 2 (0.18%) Marketing
9 2 (0.18%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.33%) pytest
2 8 (0.71%) Playwright
3 7 (0.62%) Middleware
4 5 (0.44%) SOAP
4 5 (0.44%) YAML
5 4 (0.36%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.27%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.27%) REST
6 3 (0.27%) RESTful
6 3 (0.27%) XML
7 2 (0.18%) .NET
7 2 (0.18%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.18%) boto
7 2 (0.18%) CSS
7 2 (0.18%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.18%) HTML
7 2 (0.18%) JSON
7 2 (0.18%) Web Services
8 1 (0.089%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.089%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 731 (65.04%) Driving Licence
2 64 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (0.44%) SCADA
5 4 (0.36%) Analogue Electronics
5 4 (0.36%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (0.36%) Self-Driving Car
6 3 (0.27%) Online Games
6 3 (0.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.089%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.089%) CCTV
8 1 (0.089%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.089%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.089%) IoT
8 1 (0.089%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.089%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.089%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.089%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.089%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.12%) Linux
2 78 (6.94%) Windows
3 4 (0.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (72.78%) Mentoring
2 817 (72.69%) Coaching
3 790 (70.28%) Validation
4 774 (68.86%) Verification and Validation
5 745 (66.28%) Test Strategy
6 732 (65.12%) Customer Requirements
7 181 (16.10%) Test Automation
8 152 (13.52%) Safety Engineering
9 96 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
10 86 (7.65%) Software Testing
11 80 (7.12%) Agile
12 76 (6.76%) DevOps
12 76 (6.76%) Test Management
13 74 (6.58%) System Testing
14 47 (4.18%) Computer Science
15 46 (4.09%) Waterfall
16 43 (3.83%) Configuration Management
17 42 (3.74%) UML
18 34 (3.02%) Code Quality
19 28 (2.49%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 108 (9.61%) Python
2 82 (7.30%) JavaScript
3 66 (5.87%) Bash
4 64 (5.69%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.87%) SQL
6 19 (1.69%) Java
7 12 (1.07%) Ada
7 12 (1.07%) C#
8 10 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.44%) C
9 5 (0.44%) Embedded C
9 5 (0.44%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.36%) C++
11 3 (0.27%) Go
11 3 (0.27%) PHP
12 2 (0.18%) Pascal
12 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.18%) VB
13 1 (0.089%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,013 (90.12%) Degree
2 734 (65.30%) HND
3 64 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (2.49%) ISTQB
5 27 (2.40%) HNC
6 20 (1.78%) Security Cleared
7 10 (0.89%) SC Cleared
8 9 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.18%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.18%) CISSP
10 2 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.089%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.089%) ISEB
11 1 (0.089%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.27%) QA
2 42 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.18%) GxP
4 2 (0.18%) PMO
5 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.089%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.089%) NIST
5 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (0.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.089%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.62%) Terraform
3 5 (0.44%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.18%) Ansible
4 2 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.089%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.089%) Puppet
5 1 (0.089%) SCCM
5 1 (0.089%) SCOM
5 1 (0.089%) vRealize
Vendors
1 160 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.53%) Databricks
2 6 (0.53%) HP
3 5 (0.44%) MuleSoft
3 5 (0.44%) Oracle
4 3 (0.27%) VMware
5 1 (0.089%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.089%) Brocade
5 1 (0.089%) Cisco
5 1 (0.089%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.089%) EMC
5 1 (0.089%) IBM
5 1 (0.089%) Reuters