Senior Tester Jobs in London

Senior Tester
England > London

The median Senior Tester salary in London is £64,125 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 477 753
Rank change year-on-year +6 +276 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester 12 18 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.060% 0.083% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.087% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 51
10th Percentile £47,875 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,375 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,125 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £78,625 £79,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £58,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.43% +12.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 19,111 20,582 57,587
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.63% 95.15% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,991 16,713 33,347
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,255
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Senior Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Tester in London

Senior Tester
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Tester in London.

Salary trend for Senior Tester in London

Senior Tester
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Tester in London over the 6 months to 3 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Tester in London

Senior Tester
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 3 October 2024. 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 -2 2 £65,000 -35.00%
Senior Tester
England

Senior Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 October 2024, Senior Tester 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 London region featuring Senior Tester in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (50.00%) CREST Certified
3 4 (33.33%) Red Team
3 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Social Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) API Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) QA
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Wireless
4 3 (25.00%) CHECK Team Leader
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (16.67%) Nessus
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (16.67%) Test Management
5 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 2 (16.67%) Metasploit
5 2 (16.67%) OSCP
5 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat

Senior Tester Skill Set
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 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Wireless
2 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 2 (16.67%) Metasploit
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) Red Team
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) API Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Social Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Test Management
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (8.33%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) CHECK Team Leader
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) OSCP
5 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (8.33%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Qualys
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow