Exploratory Testing Jobs in London

Exploratory Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 489 561
Rank change year-on-year +103 +72 +68
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 10 19 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.078% 0.081% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.088% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 43
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,350 £37,750
25th Percentile £41,875 £47,813 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £56,549
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.74% -5.75%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £65,250 £85,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £56,549
% change year-on-year -16.67% -20.42% +2.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,287 21,502 32,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.16% 91.13% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,368 15,970 23,578
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,800 £43,477
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,565 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -5.91% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in London.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London +21 1 £52,500 -36.36%
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Appium
1 1 (10.00%) Charles Proxy
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) NeoLoad
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
1 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Junior QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Playwright
2 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (20.00%) API Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Kanban
5 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft