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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 242 235
Rank change year-on-year -30 -7 -99
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 140 169 313
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 1.31% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.36% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 109 125 258
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +10.69%
75th Percentile £101,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £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 16,021 12,406 21,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.50% 96.10% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,467 7,550 16,119
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -8 28 £120,000 +84.62% 10
West London -6 13 £30,000 - 2
East London - 2 £30,000 - 3
South London +13 1 - - 1
North London -1 1 £45,000 -30.77% 2
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 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) CMS
3 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.57%) AutoCAD
3 5 (3.57%) DaVinci Resolve
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.71%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 46 (32.86%) AWS
2 38 (27.14%) Azure
3 20 (14.29%) GCP
4 12 (8.57%) BrowserStack
5 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.71%) GitHub
6 7 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.29%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.14%) Serverless
10 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.71%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.71%) Datadog
10 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.57%) SNMP
2 2 (1.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (3.57%) Spark SQL
1 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.14%) Power BI
3 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (12.14%) Selenium
2 13 (9.29%) JIRA
3 11 (7.86%) SpecFlow
4 8 (5.71%) WebDriver
5 7 (5.00%) Claude Code
6 6 (4.29%) Postman
7 5 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.57%) SoapUI
7 5 (3.57%) TestRail
8 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.86%) Zephyr
9 3 (2.14%) Git
9 3 (2.14%) JBehave
9 3 (2.14%) JUnit
9 3 (2.14%) NUnit
10 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.43%) TestNG
11 1 (0.71%) Subversion
11 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 41 (29.29%) Finance
3 15 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.00%) Law
5 12 (8.57%) Banking
6 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.14%) Games
7 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.43%) Back Office
8 2 (1.43%) Electronics
8 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (22.86%) Software Engineer
2 27 (19.29%) Development Engineer
2 27 (19.29%) Software Development Engineer
3 25 (17.86%) Senior
4 22 (15.71%) Lead
4 22 (15.71%) Test Development Engineer
4 22 (15.71%) Tester
5 15 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Software Tester
7 9 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) QA Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Senior Development Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Test Manager
9 7 (5.00%) Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Test Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.86%) .NET
2 20 (14.29%) React
3 19 (13.57%) Node.js
4 9 (6.43%) Playwright
5 8 (5.71%) REST
5 8 (5.71%) XML
6 5 (3.57%) JSON
6 5 (3.57%) PySpark
6 5 (3.57%) React Native
7 3 (2.14%) Spring
8 2 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.43%) HTML
8 2 (1.43%) SOAP
9 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.71%) Kafka
9 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.71%) Swagger
9 1 (0.71%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.57%) Mobile Payment
2 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.14%) AS400
4 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.14%) iSeries
5 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.71%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.71%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) LPAR
6 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (54.29%) Test Automation
2 54 (38.57%) Agile
3 46 (32.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (30.71%) CI/CD
5 31 (22.14%) Software Delivery
6 30 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 27 (19.29%) Software Engineering
9 26 (18.57%) AI
9 26 (18.57%) SDET
10 23 (16.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (15.00%) DevOps
11 21 (15.00%) Manual Testing
12 20 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
13 19 (13.57%) Defect Management
13 19 (13.57%) Scrum
14 18 (12.86%) Microservices
15 17 (12.14%) Fintech
15 17 (12.14%) User Experience
16 16 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.86%) JavaScript
2 31 (22.14%) Java
2 31 (22.14%) TypeScript
3 26 (18.57%) Python
4 25 (17.86%) SQL
5 17 (12.14%) C#
6 3 (2.14%) C++
6 3 (2.14%) COBOL
7 2 (1.43%) Bash
7 2 (1.43%) Go
7 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.43%) RPG
8 1 (0.71%) Perl
8 1 (0.71%) Rust
8 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (33.57%) Degree
2 24 (17.14%) ISTQB
3 12 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.43%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.71%) Master's Degree
6 7 (5.00%) PhD
6 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.86%) ISEB
7 4 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (2.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (2.14%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.14%) PMP
9 1 (0.71%) CIPD
9 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (29.29%) QA
2 17 (12.14%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.57%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.43%) PMO
5 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) HP ALM
1 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.14%) Terraform
2 1 (0.71%) Ansible
2 1 (0.71%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.57%) Adobe
2 5 (3.57%) Avid
2 5 (3.57%) HP
2 5 (3.57%) SolarWinds
2 5 (3.57%) Splunk
3 4 (2.86%) Siebel
4 2 (1.43%) IBM
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle
4 2 (1.43%) SAP
5 1 (0.71%) Civica
5 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.71%) Google
5 1 (0.71%) Misys
5 1 (0.71%) OpenText
5 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.71%) VMware