Software Testing Job Trends in London

Software Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 235 222
Rank change year-on-year -11 -13 -64
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 142 218 281
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.12% 1.26% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.40% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 94 125 220
10th Percentile £48,175 - £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £100,313 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £123,500 £93,500 £105,500
England median annual salary £56,430 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,754 15,612 17,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.62% 90.37% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,381 9,188 14,548
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.50%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in London over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in London

Software 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 Software Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 12 November 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 +25 29 £92,500 +85.00% 69
South London +14 1 - - 4
North London -9 1 £28,500 -49.33% 5
Software Testing
England

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.82%) nginx
1 4 (2.82%) Traefik
2 2 (1.41%) CMS
2 2 (1.41%) Confluence
2 2 (1.41%) IIS
2 2 (1.41%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.70%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.70%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.69%) AWS
2 23 (16.20%) Azure
3 19 (13.38%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (13.38%) Serverless
4 14 (9.86%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.23%) SaaS
8 5 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.82%) Akamai
9 4 (2.82%) BrowserStack
9 4 (2.82%) Cloudflare
9 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.11%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (2.11%) Datadog
10 3 (2.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) DHCP
1 4 (2.82%) DNS
1 4 (2.82%) ICMP
1 4 (2.82%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.82%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.27%) DynamoDB
2 15 (10.56%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (10.56%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.63%) Power BI
4 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.52%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.82%) Metadata
6 4 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.11%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.41%) Big Data
8 2 (1.41%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.41%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (16.90%) Selenium
2 22 (15.49%) JIRA
3 15 (10.56%) Git
4 13 (9.15%) Jenkins
5 11 (7.75%) Postman
5 11 (7.75%) WebDriver
6 8 (5.63%) Cypress.io
7 7 (4.93%) TestRail
8 6 (4.23%) Maven
9 5 (3.52%) SoapUI
10 4 (2.82%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (2.82%) JMeter
11 3 (2.11%) Charles Proxy
11 3 (2.11%) JUnit
11 3 (2.11%) Locust
11 3 (2.11%) NUnit
11 3 (2.11%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.11%) SpecFlow
11 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio
11 3 (2.11%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (47.89%) Social Skills
2 55 (38.73%) Finance
3 41 (28.87%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (28.17%) Law
5 34 (23.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (21.13%) Banking
7 16 (11.27%) Health Technology
7 16 (11.27%) Publishing
8 15 (10.56%) Tech for Good
9 11 (7.75%) Legal
10 8 (5.63%) Front Office
10 8 (5.63%) Investment Banking
10 8 (5.63%) Marketing
11 7 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.82%) Advertising
12 4 (2.82%) Electronics
12 4 (2.82%) Games
13 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.70%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 43 (30.28%) Lead
2 36 (25.35%) Developer
3 35 (24.65%) Software Engineer
4 33 (23.24%) Senior
5 21 (14.79%) Python Engineer
5 21 (14.79%) Python Software Engineer
6 18 (12.68%) Software Developer
7 17 (11.97%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (11.97%) Senior Developer
8 14 (9.86%) Python Developer
8 14 (9.86%) Senior Python Developer
9 12 (8.45%) Test Engineer
10 11 (7.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (7.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (6.34%) Analyst
12 9 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (5.63%) Senior Software Developer
13 8 (5.63%) Test Automation Engineer
14 7 (4.93%) Test Analyst
15 6 (4.23%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.46%) React
2 25 (17.61%) .NET
3 24 (16.90%) RESTful
4 17 (11.97%) Swagger
5 15 (10.56%) Playwright
6 13 (9.15%) Node.js
7 10 (7.04%) REST
8 9 (6.34%) Kafka
9 8 (5.63%) .NET Framework
9 8 (5.63%) HTML
9 8 (5.63%) Spring
10 7 (4.93%) CSS
10 7 (4.93%) Entity Framework
11 6 (4.23%) ASP.NET
11 6 (4.23%) CSS3
11 6 (4.23%) HTML5
12 5 (3.52%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.52%) XML
13 4 (2.82%) Hibernate
13 4 (2.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.79%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 8 (5.63%) Derivative
4 8 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.63%) Mobile Banking
4 8 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.82%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.11%) W3C
8 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.41%) Replication
8 2 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.70%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.70%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.04%) Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Unix
2 3 (2.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (70.42%) Agile
2 65 (45.77%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (40.85%) CI/CD
4 48 (33.80%) Test Automation
5 45 (31.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (29.58%) Computer Science
7 40 (28.17%) Software Engineering
8 35 (24.65%) SDLC
9 31 (21.83%) Scrum
10 28 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (17.61%) DevOps
12 23 (16.20%) Operational Stability
12 23 (16.20%) TDD
13 21 (14.79%) Data Science
13 21 (14.79%) Fintech
14 20 (14.08%) Manual Testing
14 20 (14.08%) Test Scripting
15 18 (12.68%) Clean Code
15 18 (12.68%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (12.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 53 (37.32%) Java
2 51 (35.92%) Python
3 33 (23.24%) TypeScript
4 30 (21.13%) SQL
5 23 (16.20%) C#
6 22 (15.49%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.52%) Bash
7 5 (3.52%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.82%) Go
8 4 (2.82%) Groovy
9 2 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.41%) Scala
9 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.70%) PHP
10 1 (0.70%) Smalltalk
10 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (33.80%) Degree
2 21 (14.79%) ISTQB
3 14 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.34%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.63%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.52%) ISEB
7 4 (2.82%) PhD
8 3 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.70%) CISA
10 1 (0.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (27.46%) QA
2 13 (9.15%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.93%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.82%) WCAG
5 3 (2.11%) SEPA
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (6.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.63%) Terraform
3 4 (2.82%) HAProxy
4 3 (2.11%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.93%) Oracle
3 5 (3.52%) Databricks
4 3 (2.11%) Adobe
4 3 (2.11%) HP
4 3 (2.11%) Siebel
4 3 (2.11%) Tealium
5 2 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.41%) Workday
6 1 (0.70%) Google
6 1 (0.70%) iManage
6 1 (0.70%) OpenText
6 1 (0.70%) SAP
6 1 (0.70%) Sitecore