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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 248 211
Rank change year-on-year -23 -37 -77
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 126 157 332
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.72% 1.22% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.26% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 105 115 272
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £104,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

All Process & 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 14,938 12,434 20,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.90% 96.31% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,728 7,533 15,890
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 26 March 2026.

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 26 March 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 -4 29 £120,000 +92.00% 15
West London -10 10 £30,000 - 4
East London - 2 £30,000 - 6
South London +28 1 - - 2
North London +5 1 £45,000 -30.77% 1
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 1 (0.79%) Apache
1 1 (0.79%) Confluence
1 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
1 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.79%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.79%) DaVinci Resolve
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.95%) AWS
2 27 (21.43%) Azure
3 16 (12.70%) GCP
4 11 (8.73%) BrowserStack
5 8 (6.35%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.97%) GitHub
7 4 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.38%) Serverless
9 2 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.59%) SaaS
10 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.79%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.79%) Datadog
10 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Broadband
2 1 (0.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (3.17%) Power BI
2 4 (3.17%) Spark SQL
3 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (14.29%) Selenium
2 11 (8.73%) JIRA
3 10 (7.94%) SpecFlow
4 9 (7.14%) WebDriver
5 6 (4.76%) Postman
6 5 (3.97%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.97%) Git
6 5 (3.97%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.17%) Claude Code
7 4 (3.17%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.17%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.38%) JBehave
8 3 (2.38%) JUnit
8 3 (2.38%) NUnit
8 3 (2.38%) TestRail
8 3 (2.38%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.59%) TestNG
10 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 47 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 36 (28.57%) Finance
3 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.14%) Law
4 9 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Banking
6 4 (3.17%) Games
6 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.38%) Marketing
8 2 (1.59%) Back Office
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Legal
9 1 (0.79%) Local Government
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 25 (19.84%) Lead
3 21 (16.67%) Development Engineer
3 21 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) Test Development Engineer
5 18 (14.29%) Tester
6 16 (12.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (11.90%) Senior
8 9 (7.14%) Developer
8 9 (7.14%) QA Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) Software Tester
9 8 (6.35%) Test Manager
10 7 (5.56%) Analyst
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Python Software Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) Senior Development Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) Test Analyst
12 5 (3.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.05%) .NET
2 19 (15.08%) React
3 17 (13.49%) Node.js
4 11 (8.73%) Playwright
5 8 (6.35%) REST
5 8 (6.35%) XML
6 5 (3.97%) JSON
7 4 (3.17%) PySpark
7 4 (3.17%) Spring
8 3 (2.38%) HTML
9 2 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.59%) React Native
9 2 (1.59%) SOAP
9 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.79%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.79%) ADO
10 1 (0.79%) CSS
10 1 (0.79%) Middleware
10 1 (0.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.59%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.59%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.79%) AS400
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.79%) IoT
5 1 (0.79%) iSeries
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Windows
2 2 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (54.76%) Test Automation
2 57 (45.24%) Agile
3 47 (37.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 33 (26.19%) Software Delivery
6 32 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (22.22%) Computer Science
8 24 (19.05%) SDET
9 23 (18.25%) Manual Testing
10 22 (17.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (17.46%) Software Engineering
11 20 (15.87%) Non-Functional Testing
12 19 (15.08%) AI
12 19 (15.08%) Fintech
12 19 (15.08%) User Experience
13 18 (14.29%) Defect Management
13 18 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (12.70%) Scrum
15 15 (11.90%) E-Commerce
15 15 (11.90%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 35 (27.78%) Java
2 30 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 30 (23.81%) TypeScript
3 25 (19.84%) SQL
4 23 (18.25%) Python
5 16 (12.70%) C#
6 2 (1.59%) Bash
6 2 (1.59%) C++
6 2 (1.59%) COBOL
6 2 (1.59%) Go
6 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.79%) Perl
7 1 (0.79%) PHP
7 1 (0.79%) Rust
7 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (34.13%) Degree
2 24 (19.05%) ISTQB
3 11 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.94%) Security Cleared
5 9 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.97%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.17%) ISEB
7 4 (3.17%) PhD
8 3 (2.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CIPD
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (29.37%) QA
2 16 (12.70%) Accessibility
3 9 (7.14%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (2.38%) HP ALM
1 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.38%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) Ansible
2 1 (0.79%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.97%) HP
3 4 (3.17%) Siebel
4 2 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) Avid
5 1 (0.79%) Civica
5 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.79%) Google
5 1 (0.79%) OpenText
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle
5 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.79%) Splunk
5 1 (0.79%) VMware