Software Testing Jobs in Essex

Software Testing
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software 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 50 52 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 9 21 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 1.84% 2.36% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.98% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 9
10th Percentile £25,750 £40,875 -
25th Percentile £26,500 £48,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -38.24% +123.68%
75th Percentile £54,438 £60,000 -
90th Percentile £58,750 £64,000 -
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% -15.38% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 430 705 765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 87.93% 79.30% 92.73%
Number of salaries quoted 190 579 351
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,759 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £58,438 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Essex

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Essex

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Essex.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Essex

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Essex

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Essex

Software Testing
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Essex 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
Chelmsford +10 3 £53,000 -7.83% 15
Saffron Walden +9 2 £25,000 -9.09%
Waltham Abbey - 2 £57,500 -
Witham - 2 £27,000 -
Software Testing
East of England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) PetaLinux
General
1 3 (33.33%) Law
1 3 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Publishing
3 1 (11.11%) German Language
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Project Assistant
3 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
1 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
1 2 (22.22%) jQuery
1 2 (22.22%) LINQ
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) FPGA
1 1 (11.11%) Verilog
1 1 (11.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
2 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) API Integration
3 2 (22.22%) B2B
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Database Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Email Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) MVC
3 2 (22.22%) Structured Programming
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design
4 1 (11.11%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Rust
2 1 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Xilinx