Test Specialist Jobs in Hampshire

Test Specialist
South East > Hampshire

The median Test Specialist salary in Hampshire is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Specialist 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £44,300 - -
25th Percentile £44,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 - -
75th Percentile £51,125 - -
90th Percentile £51,350 - -
South East median annual salary £48,000 - £42,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,882 4,028 2,619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.19% 94.67% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,135 3,133 1,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £81,175
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Test Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings that featured Test Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Specialist in Hampshire

Test Specialist
Salary Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Specialist in Hampshire.

Salary trend for Test Specialist in Hampshire

Test Specialist
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Specialist within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Basingstoke - 3 £50,000 - 6
Portsmouth - 1 £45,000 - 1
Test Specialist
South East

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Test Specialist 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 Hampshire region featuring Test Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (50.00%) PKI
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) V-Model
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) SCCM
4 1 (25.00%) SCOM
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management

Test Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (50.00%) V-Model
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Server
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee
1 1 (25.00%) VMware