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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 231 202
Rank change year-on-year -41 -29 -63
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 119 214 308
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 1.38% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.45% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 102 124 250
10th Percentile £48,625 £42,500 £44,525
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £107,813 £82,500 £89,688
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,750 £107,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 12,754 14,716 18,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.12% 94.86% 92.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,125 8,000 14,988
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 34 £105,000 +75.00% 15
West London +1 3 £32,500 +8.33% 5
South London +27 1 - - 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 2 (1.68%) CMS
1 2 (1.68%) Confluence
1 2 (1.68%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.84%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.09%) AWS
2 23 (19.33%) Azure
3 15 (12.61%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (8.40%) Serverless
5 8 (6.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (6.72%) BrowserStack
5 8 (6.72%) GCP
6 7 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.04%) SaaS
8 5 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.36%) Datadog
10 3 (2.52%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (1.68%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.68%) GitHub
11 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.84%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.08%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.40%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (6.72%) Power BI
4 7 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.20%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.52%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.68%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.68%) Metadata
8 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.84%) Big Data
9 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.84%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (15.97%) JIRA
1 19 (15.97%) Selenium
2 13 (10.92%) Git
3 11 (9.24%) Postman
4 10 (8.40%) WebDriver
5 7 (5.88%) SoapUI
6 6 (5.04%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.20%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.20%) SpecFlow
8 4 (3.36%) Jenkins
8 4 (3.36%) TestRail
8 4 (3.36%) Visual Studio
8 4 (3.36%) Zephyr
9 3 (2.52%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (2.52%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (2.52%) JMeter
9 3 (2.52%) Maven
9 3 (2.52%) NUnit
9 3 (2.52%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 29 (24.37%) Finance
3 17 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.08%) Law
5 9 (7.56%) Health Technology
6 8 (6.72%) Publishing
6 8 (6.72%) Tech for Good
7 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
9 5 (4.20%) Legal
9 5 (4.20%) Marketing
10 4 (3.36%) Banking
10 4 (3.36%) Electronics
10 4 (3.36%) Games
11 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.84%) Advertising
12 1 (0.84%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (26.05%) Lead
2 26 (21.85%) Developer
3 21 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 19 (15.97%) Senior
5 16 (13.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (11.76%) Development Engineer
6 14 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Software Development Engineer
6 14 (11.76%) Test Development Engineer
7 11 (9.24%) Test Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Python Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Senior Python Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Tester
10 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Python Software Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Developer in Test
11 5 (4.20%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.21%) React
2 26 (21.85%) .NET
3 18 (15.13%) Node.js
4 12 (10.08%) RESTful
5 11 (9.24%) Swagger
6 10 (8.40%) Playwright
7 7 (5.88%) .NET Framework
7 7 (5.88%) Entity Framework
7 7 (5.88%) HTML
8 6 (5.04%) REST
9 5 (4.20%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.20%) CSS
9 5 (4.20%) XML
10 4 (3.36%) CSS3
10 4 (3.36%) HTML5
10 4 (3.36%) Spring
11 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.52%) ASP.NET
11 3 (2.52%) jQuery
11 3 (2.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.20%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.52%) W3C
5 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.68%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.84%) AS400
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.84%) IoT
6 1 (0.84%) iSeries
6 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (61.34%) Agile
2 59 (49.58%) Test Automation
3 48 (40.34%) CI/CD
4 46 (38.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (26.05%) Computer Science
7 30 (25.21%) Software Delivery
8 27 (22.69%) Scrum
9 24 (20.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (20.17%) Manual Testing
10 22 (18.49%) SDET
11 21 (17.65%) User Experience
12 20 (16.81%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (15.97%) Clean Code
14 17 (14.29%) ETL
15 16 (13.45%) DevOps
15 16 (13.45%) Non-Functional Testing
15 16 (13.45%) Prototyping
15 16 (13.45%) Test Scripting
16 15 (12.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.25%) Java
2 35 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 28 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 27 (22.69%) Python
5 25 (21.01%) SQL
6 20 (16.81%) C#
7 2 (1.68%) Bash
7 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.68%) Scala
8 1 (0.84%) PHP
8 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (31.93%) Degree
2 24 (20.17%) ISTQB
3 12 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.72%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.36%) ISEB
5 4 (3.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 4 (3.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.36%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (27.73%) QA
2 17 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.20%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.36%) WCAG
5 3 (2.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (4.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.52%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.68%) Terraform
4 1 (0.84%) Ansible
4 1 (0.84%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.52%) Adobe
2 3 (2.52%) HP
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle
2 3 (2.52%) Siebel
2 3 (2.52%) Tealium
3 2 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (1.68%) Databricks
4 1 (0.84%) Civica
4 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.84%) Google
4 1 (0.84%) iManage
4 1 (0.84%) OpenText
4 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.84%) SAP
4 1 (0.84%) Sitecore