Test Specialist Job Trends in England

Test Specialist
UK > England

The median Test Specialist salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 - 674
Rank change year-on-year - - +286
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Specialist 12 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.023% - 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% - 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £49,500 - -
25th Percentile £54,375 - £21,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £24,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -53.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £40,750
90th Percentile £69,500 - £67,300
UK median annual salary £65,000 - £26,000
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 48,271 44,715 46,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.72% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,563 23,396 36,518
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,419
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Test Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Specialist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Test Specialist job vacancy trend in England

Test Specialist
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Test Specialist job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Test Specialist job vacancies in England

Test Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Specialist in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Specialist in England

Test Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Midlands - 6 - -
South East - 6 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands - 6 - -
Test Specialist
UK

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Test Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Test Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (16.67%) Appium
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 2 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (16.67%) JIRA
5 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Playwright
5 2 (16.67%) QA
5 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 2 (16.67%) SCCM
5 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (16.67%) SCOM
5 2 (16.67%) Selenium
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) Subversion
5 2 (16.67%) V-Model
5 2 (16.67%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Windows
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019

Test Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Appium
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.33%) TestNG
3 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Advertising
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (16.67%) V-Model
2 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (8.33%) API Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Release Management
3 1 (8.33%) SIEM
3 1 (8.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Terminal Server
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
1 2 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) McAfee