Tester Jobs in Guildford

Tester
Surrey > Guildford

The median Tester salary in Guildford is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 45 63
Rank change year-on-year +28 +18 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 5 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 4.63% 1.97% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.00% 2.13% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile £45,500 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +30.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 £45,750 £37,500
90th Percentile £54,000 - -
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £45,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -20.87% +53.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Guildford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Guildford. 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 Guildford with a recognized job title 100 329 340
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.42% 97.42%
Number of salaries quoted 83 305 233
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £79,500
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Guildford

Tester
Salary Trend in Guildford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tester in Guildford.

Salary trend for Tester in Guildford

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Tester 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 Guildford region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) QA
3 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (40.00%) Appium
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) WPF
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (40.00%) gRPC
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Blazor
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (20.00%) 5G
1 1 (20.00%) Broadband
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Appium
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (40.00%) Blazor
2 2 (40.00%) gRPC
2 2 (40.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
5 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001