Software Testing Jobs in London

Software Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 258 212
Rank change year-on-year +8 -46 -64
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 168 270 481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.15% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.29% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 110 205 343
10th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £86,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £120,500 £95,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Process and 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 12,597 20,990 27,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 95.09% 89.54% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,431 15,021 21,246
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in London.

Salary trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in London over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 2025. 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 +14 27 £80,000 +33.33% 8
South London -23 6 £50,750 -27.50% 4
North London - 2 £49,250 - 4
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.38%) Confluence
1 4 (2.38%) nginx
1 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
1 4 (2.38%) Traefik
2 2 (1.19%) Apache
2 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.19%) IIS
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.19%) WinCC
3 1 (0.60%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.60%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 56 (33.33%) AWS
2 38 (22.62%) Azure
3 21 (12.50%) Serverless
4 19 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.17%) GCP
8 6 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.98%) GitHub
10 4 (2.38%) Akamai
10 4 (2.38%) Cloudflare
10 4 (2.38%) Figma
10 4 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.38%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.79%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.79%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) TCP/IP
1 5 (2.98%) VPN
2 4 (2.38%) DHCP
2 4 (2.38%) DNS
2 4 (2.38%) HTTP
2 4 (2.38%) ICMP
2 4 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.19%) Firewall
3 2 (1.19%) Network Security
4 1 (0.60%) BGP
4 1 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (8.93%) DynamoDB
4 13 (7.74%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.55%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.98%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.38%) Big Data
7 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.79%) MySQL
8 3 (1.79%) Power BI
9 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.19%) Redis
10 1 (0.60%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.60%) HBase
10 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (14.88%) Selenium
2 22 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.10%) JIRA
3 21 (12.50%) Git
4 12 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 11 (6.55%) JMeter
6 10 (5.95%) JUnit
6 10 (5.95%) Postman
7 9 (5.36%) IntelliJ
8 8 (4.76%) Maven
9 7 (4.17%) Appium
9 7 (4.17%) NUnit
10 6 (3.57%) TestRail
10 6 (3.57%) WebDriver
11 5 (2.98%) REST Assured
11 5 (2.98%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (2.98%) Xcode
11 5 (2.98%) XCUITest
12 4 (2.38%) LoadRunner
12 4 (2.38%) Locust
General
1 67 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 51 (30.36%) Finance
3 39 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (22.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (20.24%) Banking
6 31 (18.45%) Law
7 16 (9.52%) Publishing
8 15 (8.93%) Health Technology
8 15 (8.93%) Tech for Good
9 12 (7.14%) Investment Banking
10 8 (4.76%) Front Office
10 8 (4.76%) Legal
11 6 (3.57%) Advertising
12 5 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.79%) Back Office
13 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.79%) Marketing
13 3 (1.79%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (25.00%) Senior
2 41 (24.40%) Software Engineer
3 40 (23.81%) Developer
4 31 (18.45%) Lead
5 18 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 17 (10.12%) Lead Software Engineer
6 17 (10.12%) Python Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) Python Software Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) Software Developer
8 14 (8.33%) Java Engineer
9 12 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) QA Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) Senior Software Developer
11 9 (5.36%) Analyst
11 9 (5.36%) Senior Java Engineer
12 8 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.76%) Python Developer
12 8 (4.76%) Senior Python Developer
12 8 (4.76%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (27.98%) React
2 33 (19.64%) RESTful
3 26 (15.48%) .NET
4 25 (14.88%) REST
5 18 (10.71%) Swagger
6 15 (8.93%) Kafka
7 14 (8.33%) HTML
7 14 (8.33%) Playwright
8 13 (7.74%) AngularJS
8 13 (7.74%) JSON
9 11 (6.55%) Web Services
10 10 (5.95%) .NET Core
10 10 (5.95%) .NET Framework
10 10 (5.95%) ASP.NET
11 9 (5.36%) CSS
11 9 (5.36%) jQuery
12 8 (4.76%) Spring
13 7 (4.17%) Node.js
14 6 (3.57%) Entity Framework
14 6 (3.57%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.12%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.95%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.76%) Derivative
5 8 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.76%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (4.17%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.19%) Mobile Games
9 2 (1.19%) SCADA
9 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.60%) FMCG
10 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.60%) FPGA
10 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.17%) Linux
2 6 (3.57%) Windows
3 5 (2.98%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.79%) Unix
5 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (58.33%) Agile
2 74 (44.05%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 47 (27.98%) Software Engineering
5 42 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 40 (23.81%) SDLC
7 37 (22.02%) DevOps
7 37 (22.02%) TDD
8 33 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (17.26%) Scrum
10 26 (15.48%) Code Quality
10 26 (15.48%) Computer Science
11 24 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (14.29%) SDET
12 23 (13.69%) Operational Stability
13 22 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (13.10%) Performance Testing
13 22 (13.10%) Security Testing
13 22 (13.10%) Test Strategy
14 21 (12.50%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (39.29%) Java
2 54 (32.14%) Python
3 49 (29.17%) SQL
4 34 (20.24%) C#
4 34 (20.24%) JavaScript
5 33 (19.64%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.57%) Groovy
7 5 (2.98%) Go
7 5 (2.98%) Swift
8 4 (2.38%) Bash
8 4 (2.38%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.38%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.79%) C++
9 3 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.79%) Scala
9 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.19%) C
10 2 (1.19%) Ruby
10 2 (1.19%) Rust
10 2 (1.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (27.98%) Degree
2 16 (9.52%) ISTQB
3 13 (7.74%) Master's Degree
3 13 (7.74%) PhD
3 13 (7.74%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.98%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.38%) CISSP
9 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.79%) ISEB
9 3 (1.79%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.19%) CISA
10 2 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.60%) CCNP
11 1 (0.60%) CCSP
11 1 (0.60%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (29.76%) QA
2 5 (2.98%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.19%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) COBIT
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.36%) Terraform
3 6 (3.57%) Argo
4 4 (2.38%) HAProxy
4 4 (2.38%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (1.19%) Functional Safety
5 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (7.74%) Oracle
2 12 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.98%) Databricks
3 5 (2.98%) Google
4 4 (2.38%) IBM
5 3 (1.79%) Splunk
6 2 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.19%) New Relic
6 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.19%) Siemens
6 2 (1.19%) Workday
7 1 (0.60%) FIS
7 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.60%) Intel
7 1 (0.60%) Mercator
7 1 (0.60%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.60%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.60%) Sybase
7 1 (0.60%) Xilinx