Software Testing Jobs in Gloucestershire

Software Testing
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 111 69
Rank change year-on-year +55 -42 -12
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 9 22 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.77% 1.25% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.43% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 14
10th Percentile £40,575 £36,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,938 £46,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,709 £52,500 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% -7.49% +26.00%
75th Percentile £53,300 £72,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £58,820 - £84,800
South West median annual salary £51,600 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +3.20% +6.38% +4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 467 1,536 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 91.75% 87.03% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 278 1,082 486
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,938 £62,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,952 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -2.95% +5.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Gloucestershire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in Gloucestershire

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Gloucestershire

Software Testing
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Gloucester +46 1 £44,500 -11.00% 7
Cheltenham +38 1 £55,000 +15.79% 6
Tewkesbury +19 1 £40,000 -23.81% 1
Filton -25 1 £48,918 -
Software Testing
South West

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
2 1 (11.11%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Test Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Automation Test Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Lead Test Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) boto
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) JSP
2 1 (11.11%) MERN Stack
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) BDD
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) System Testing
2 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) OOD
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
4 1 (11.11%) Physics
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
4 1 (11.11%) UML
4 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) VMware