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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 229 223
Rank change year-on-year -29 -6 -77
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 115 215 247
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 1.38% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.46% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 98 125 197
10th Percentile £49,375 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £118,125 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £109,500 £108,500
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 12,131 14,714 16,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.23% 94.39% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,752 8,132 13,321
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,229 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 4 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 4 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 +12 32 £120,000 +118.18% 24
West London -1 2 £32,500 +8.33% 4
South London +27 1 - - 6
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 (1.74%) CMS
1 2 (1.74%) Confluence
1 2 (1.74%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.87%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 37 (32.17%) AWS
2 21 (18.26%) Azure
3 15 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (11.30%) Serverless
5 9 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.09%) SaaS
7 5 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.35%) BrowserStack
8 4 (3.48%) GCP
8 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.61%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (2.61%) Datadog
10 2 (1.74%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.74%) GitHub
11 1 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.87%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.87%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) DynamoDB
2 12 (10.43%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (9.57%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.96%) Power BI
6 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.48%) Metadata
7 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.61%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.74%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.87%) Big Data
10 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) JIRA
2 19 (16.52%) Selenium
3 13 (11.30%) Git
3 13 (11.30%) Postman
4 10 (8.70%) WebDriver
5 8 (6.96%) SoapUI
6 6 (5.22%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.22%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.35%) SpecFlow
8 4 (3.48%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
8 4 (3.48%) TestRail
8 4 (3.48%) Visual Studio
9 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.61%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (2.61%) JMeter
9 3 (2.61%) Maven
9 3 (2.61%) NUnit
9 3 (2.61%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.61%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.96%) Finance
3 19 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.30%) Health Technology
5 12 (10.43%) Law
5 12 (10.43%) Publishing
5 12 (10.43%) Tech for Good
6 7 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.22%) Banking
7 6 (5.22%) Marketing
7 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.35%) Games
8 5 (4.35%) Legal
9 4 (3.48%) Electronics
10 3 (2.61%) Advertising
10 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.87%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (27.83%) Lead
2 30 (26.09%) Developer
3 21 (18.26%) Senior
4 16 (13.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 16 (13.91%) Software Developer
5 14 (12.17%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.17%) Software Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Test Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Python Developer
7 12 (10.43%) Senior Python Developer
8 7 (6.09%) Development Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Senior Software Developer
8 7 (6.09%) Software Development Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Test Development Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Python Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Python Software Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) QA Leader
9 6 (5.22%) React Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (29.57%) React
2 27 (23.48%) .NET
3 18 (15.65%) Node.js
4 16 (13.91%) RESTful
5 15 (13.04%) Swagger
6 11 (9.57%) Playwright
7 7 (6.09%) .NET Framework
7 7 (6.09%) Entity Framework
7 7 (6.09%) HTML
8 6 (5.22%) REST
9 5 (4.35%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.35%) CSS
9 5 (4.35%) XML
10 4 (3.48%) CSS3
10 4 (3.48%) HTML5
10 4 (3.48%) Spring
11 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.61%) ASP.NET
11 3 (2.61%) jQuery
11 3 (2.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.48%) Reference Data
3 4 (3.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.61%) W3C
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.74%) Replication
5 2 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.87%) AS400
6 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.87%) IoT
6 1 (0.87%) iSeries
6 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.09%) Linux
2 3 (2.61%) Unix
3 2 (1.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (68.70%) Agile
2 50 (43.48%) Test Automation
3 46 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 44 (38.26%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (37.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (26.96%) Computer Science
6 31 (26.96%) Scrum
7 24 (20.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (19.13%) Manual Testing
8 22 (19.13%) Software Delivery
8 22 (19.13%) User Experience
9 20 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (16.52%) Clean Code
11 18 (15.65%) Data Science
12 17 (14.78%) Test Scripting
13 16 (13.91%) DevOps
13 16 (13.91%) ETL
13 16 (13.91%) Non-Functional Testing
13 16 (13.91%) Prototyping
13 16 (13.91%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.17%) Java
1 37 (32.17%) TypeScript
2 28 (24.35%) Python
3 26 (22.61%) JavaScript
4 24 (20.87%) SQL
5 20 (17.39%) C#
6 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.74%) Scala
6 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.87%) Bash
7 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.87%) PHP
7 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (33.04%) Degree
2 24 (20.87%) ISTQB
3 12 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.96%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.35%) ISEB
5 5 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (3.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 4 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (30.43%) QA
2 14 (12.17%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.09%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.48%) WCAG
5 3 (2.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (5.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.61%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.87%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.35%) Oracle
3 3 (2.61%) Adobe
3 3 (2.61%) HP
3 3 (2.61%) Siebel
3 3 (2.61%) Tealium
4 2 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.74%) Databricks
4 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.87%) Civica
5 1 (0.87%) iManage
5 1 (0.87%) OpenText
5 1 (0.87%) SAP
5 1 (0.87%) Sitecore