Exploratory Testing Job Trends in Leeds

Exploratory Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.033% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -21.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Exploratory 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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,152 837 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 70.93% 86.92% 78.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,670 573 992
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -3.72%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Exploratory Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker