System Testing Job Trends in Hampshire

System Testing
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring System Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 135 117
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 +59
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 4 21 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.16% 0.79% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.96% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 8
10th Percentile - £51,250 £52,250
25th Percentile £105,000 £59,063 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - - £73,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £80,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -31.25% +42.86% +1.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

System 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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,969 2,178 1,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.07% 81.91% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 1,290 1,213
10th Percentile £27,250 £33,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing System Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

System Testing job vacancy trend in Hampshire

System Testing
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing System Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing System Testing

System Testing
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Farnborough - 2 £110,000 -
Portsmouth - 1 - - 2
System Testing
South East

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Towers Watson Igloo
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Commissioning Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Pensions Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA
2 1 (25.00%) NVMe
2 1 (25.00%) PCIe
2 1 (25.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Altera
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Xilinx