Smoke Testing Job Trends in London

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Smoke Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 - 478
Rank change year-on-year - - +196
Permanent jobs citing Smoke Testing 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.006% - 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% - 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £48,250
25th Percentile £46,250 - £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £88,125
90th Percentile - - £93,750
England median annual salary £31,000 £32,485 £48,750
% change year-on-year -4.57% -33.36% +18.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Smoke 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 13,591 14,139 19,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.12% 95.64% 91.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8,777 7,800 15,724
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,113 £39,206
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Smoke Testing job vacancy trend in London

Smoke Testing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Smoke Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Smoke Testing

Smoke 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 Smoke Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. 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 - 1 £47,500 - 1
Smoke Testing
England

Smoke Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
1 1 (100.00%) UAT Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL