Software Testing Jobs in Leicestershire

Software Testing
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 84 22
Rank change year-on-year +67 -62 +57
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 69 18 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 9.87% 1.68% 11.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.65% 1.89% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 15
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £30,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £41,250 £67,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £45,000 - £57,750
East Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £49,329 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.71% +23.32% +3.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

Software 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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 950 779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 92.70% 88.45% 97.74%
Number of salaries quoted 168 527 253
10th Percentile £25,925 £26,150 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,800 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £44,100 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -11.80% +5.26%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Leicestershire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Leicestershire.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Leicestershire

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Leicestershire

Software Testing
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Hinckley -5 31 - -
Lutterworth -6 31 £32,500 -50.00%
Leicester +39 5 £32,000 -20.00% 7
Market Harborough - 2 £45,000 - 1
Software Testing
East Midlands

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.90%) IIS
Applications
1 45 (65.22%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.90%) Azure
1 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.45%) BrowserStack
2 1 (1.45%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Postman
2 3 (4.35%) Subversion
3 2 (2.90%) JMeter
3 2 (2.90%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.90%) TortoiseSVN
4 1 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.45%) TestComplete
General
1 46 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 45 (65.22%) Automotive
3 4 (5.80%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (42.03%) Principal Engineer
2 24 (34.78%) Software Engineer
3 22 (31.88%) Development Engineer
3 22 (31.88%) Software Development Engineer
3 22 (31.88%) Systems Engineer
4 14 (20.29%) Principal Software Engineer
4 14 (20.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Senior
5 8 (11.59%) Senior Development Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Analyst
7 2 (2.90%) C# Developer
7 2 (2.90%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (2.90%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Developer
7 2 (2.90%) QA Tester
7 2 (2.90%) Software Developer
7 2 (2.90%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) .NET
1 2 (2.90%) Playwright
1 2 (2.90%) RESTful
1 2 (2.90%) SOAP
1 2 (2.90%) Swagger
1 2 (2.90%) WPF
2 1 (1.45%) LDAP
2 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
1 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.45%) PKI
2 1 (1.45%) Smartcard
2 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (92.75%) Agile
2 45 (65.22%) Systems Engineering
2 45 (65.22%) Validation
3 40 (57.97%) Software Engineering
4 18 (26.09%) SDLC
5 15 (21.74%) Waterfall
6 4 (5.80%) API Testing
7 3 (4.35%) Product Requirements
8 2 (2.90%) BDD
8 2 (2.90%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (2.90%) Computer Science
8 2 (2.90%) DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) Mathematics
8 2 (2.90%) Performance Testing
8 2 (2.90%) Physics
8 2 (2.90%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (2.90%) Product Management
8 2 (2.90%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (2.90%) Test Automation
8 2 (2.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (65.22%) MATLAB
2 3 (4.35%) C#
2 3 (4.35%) SQL
3 2 (2.90%) XAML
Qualifications
1 60 (86.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (24.64%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Siemens
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft