Test Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Test Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Test Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 October 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 70 77
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 7 20 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.39% 2.07% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 2.13% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile £54,625 - £27,500
25th Percentile £59,688 - £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £40,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% -17.53% -3.00%
75th Percentile £80,313 £62,500 £56,875
90th Percentile £83,125 £71,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £46,250 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 475 941 877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 97.21% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 338 485 517
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,400 £29,440
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +8.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £86,625 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +8.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Test Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Salary distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Gloucestershire

Test Engineer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Filton - 4 £65,000 -
Cheltenham +20 1 £85,000 +23.64% 2
Gloucester +20 1 £52,500 -4.55% 3
Test Engineer
South West

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 24 October 2025, Test Engineer 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Vision
2 3 (42.86%) Data Acquisition
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Physics
2 3 (42.86%) Statistical Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) ArcGIS
4 1 (14.29%) ATDD
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) BDD

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) ArcGIS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) boto
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analogue Electronics
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Vision
1 3 (42.86%) Data Acquisition
1 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Data Science
1 3 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
1 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
1 3 (42.86%) Physics
1 3 (42.86%) Statistical Analysis
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) CAD
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded C
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA