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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 245 252
Rank change year-on-year -63 +7 -35
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 145 143 218
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.57% 1.21% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.29% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 77 93 134
10th Percentile £35,750 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +0.39% -1.92%
75th Percentile £97,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £112,500 £102,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -4.35%

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 20,509 11,083 16,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.76% 94.15% 89.37%
Number of salaries quoted 13,842 7,005 10,277
10th Percentile £41,013 £38,490 £40,003
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 18 £97,500 +21.88% 10
West London - 6 £30,000 - 11
South London +2 3 £69,501 +81.70% 10
North London 0 2 £62,500 +119.30% 3
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 5 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.38%) CMS
3 2 (1.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (4.14%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.45%) AutoCAD
2 5 (3.45%) DaVinci Resolve
2 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.69%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.69%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.90%) Azure
2 29 (20.00%) AWS
3 16 (11.03%) GCP
4 11 (7.59%) Serverless
5 9 (6.21%) GitHub
5 9 (6.21%) SaaS
6 6 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.14%) BrowserStack
6 6 (4.14%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.07%) Datadog
9 3 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.38%) PaaS
10 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.38%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) SNMP
2 2 (1.38%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.69%) BGP
3 1 (0.69%) DHCP
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) IPv4
3 1 (0.69%) IPv6
3 1 (0.69%) MPLS
3 1 (0.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.14%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
1 6 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.76%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.07%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.69%) Big Data
6 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.59%) Selenium
2 9 (6.21%) JIRA
3 8 (5.52%) Git
4 7 (4.83%) Postman
5 6 (4.14%) Claude Code
6 5 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.45%) Gatling
6 5 (3.45%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.76%) TestRail
7 4 (2.76%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.07%) JMeter
8 3 (2.07%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.38%) GitLab
9 2 (1.38%) JUnit
9 2 (1.38%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.38%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.38%) TestNG
9 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.38%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
General
1 46 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.90%) Finance
3 24 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.03%) Law
5 12 (8.28%) Banking
6 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.45%) Publishing
7 4 (2.76%) Front Office
7 4 (2.76%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.76%) Legal
7 4 (2.76%) Retail
7 4 (2.76%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.07%) Back Office
8 3 (2.07%) Marketing
8 3 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Legal Technology
9 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (33.79%) Senior
2 33 (22.76%) Developer
3 32 (22.07%) Software Engineer
4 25 (17.24%) Lead
5 24 (16.55%) Software Developer
6 19 (13.10%) Developer in Test
7 17 (11.72%) Consultant
7 17 (11.72%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (9.66%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.28%) Test Leader
10 11 (7.59%) Senior Software Developer
10 11 (7.59%) Tester
11 10 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (6.90%) Test Consultant
12 9 (6.21%) Software Consultant
13 8 (5.52%) Development Engineer
13 8 (5.52%) Principal Consultant
13 8 (5.52%) QA Engineer
13 8 (5.52%) Software Development Engineer
14 7 (4.83%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.03%) React
2 14 (9.66%) .NET
3 12 (8.28%) Playwright
4 9 (6.21%) REST
4 9 (6.21%) Terraform
5 8 (5.52%) React Native
5 8 (5.52%) RESTful
6 6 (4.14%) JSON
7 5 (3.45%) Swagger
8 4 (2.76%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.76%) Node.js
8 4 (2.76%) PySpark
9 3 (2.07%) Dropwizard
9 3 (2.07%) Micronaut
9 3 (2.07%) pytest
10 2 (1.38%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.38%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.21%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (5.52%) AI Agents
4 8 (5.52%) Reinsurance
5 7 (4.83%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.14%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.76%) Blog
8 3 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.07%) CMDB
8 3 (2.07%) Market Risk
8 3 (2.07%) Mobile Payment
8 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.38%) AS400
9 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.38%) iSeries
9 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.28%) Windows
2 2 (1.38%) Android
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (49.66%) Test Automation
2 63 (43.45%) Software Engineering
3 50 (34.48%) Agile
4 44 (30.34%) CI/CD
5 40 (27.59%) AI
6 39 (26.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (25.52%) Code Quality
7 37 (25.52%) DevOps
8 33 (22.76%) SDET
9 23 (15.86%) Decision-Making
9 23 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (15.17%) SDLC
11 19 (13.10%) Mentoring
11 19 (13.10%) Regression Testing
12 17 (11.72%) Analytics
12 17 (11.72%) Test Strategy
13 16 (11.03%) Microservices
14 15 (10.34%) Data Science
14 15 (10.34%) Validation
15 14 (9.66%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.86%) Python
2 23 (15.86%) SQL
3 22 (15.17%) C#
4 16 (11.03%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.97%) C++
6 11 (7.59%) Java
7 9 (6.21%) Julia
7 9 (6.21%) MATLAB
8 8 (5.52%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.52%) R
9 6 (4.14%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.38%) Bash
10 2 (1.38%) RPG
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) Clojure
11 1 (0.69%) COBOL
11 1 (0.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (14.48%) Degree
2 15 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.52%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.76%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.76%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.07%) PhD
7 2 (1.38%) MCSA
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.38%) PMP
8 1 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (25.52%) QA
2 15 (10.34%) GDPR
3 14 (9.66%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.14%) Software Quality Assurance
5 4 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.76%) WCAG
6 2 (1.38%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (4.83%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.52%) Grafana
2 7 (4.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.07%) Ansible
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.07%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.69%) Kibana
4 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.52%) Splunk
3 5 (3.45%) Adobe
3 5 (3.45%) Avid
3 5 (3.45%) Google
3 5 (3.45%) SolarWinds
4 4 (2.76%) Databricks
5 3 (2.07%) Apple
5 3 (2.07%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.07%) Oracle
5 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.07%) Symantec
5 3 (2.07%) Tenable
5 3 (2.07%) Veeam
5 3 (2.07%) VMware
6 2 (1.38%) IBM
6 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.38%) SGI
6 2 (1.38%) Workday
7 1 (0.69%) Arista