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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 242 298
Rank change year-on-year -31 +56 -87
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 146 164 190
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.64% 1.33% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.41% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 96 107 149
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -1.54% -0.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £120,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 18,777 11,645 18,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.22% 94.45% 89.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12,786 7,397 12,818
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -11.29%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 0 21 £72,500 -9.38% 7
West London - 10 £30,000 - 1
East London - 2 £30,000 - 4
North London +3 1 £45,000 -8.63% 1
South London +3 1 £69,501 +36.95%
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 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.37%) CMS
3 2 (1.37%) Confluence
3 2 (1.37%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.11%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.42%) AutoCAD
3 5 (3.42%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.68%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.34%) Azure
2 33 (22.60%) AWS
3 14 (9.59%) GCP
4 11 (7.53%) GitHub
4 11 (7.53%) Serverless
5 9 (6.16%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (6.16%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.42%) SaaS
8 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.74%) Azure Functions
8 4 (2.74%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.37%) PaaS
9 2 (1.37%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.42%) SNMP
2 2 (1.37%) Broadband
2 2 (1.37%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (4.11%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (4.11%) Spark SQL
2 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.74%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.68%) Big Data
6 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (7.53%) Selenium
2 9 (6.16%) Claude Code
2 9 (6.16%) JIRA
3 8 (5.48%) Git
4 6 (4.11%) SpecFlow
4 6 (4.11%) TestRail
4 6 (4.11%) WebDriver
5 5 (3.42%) Zephyr
6 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.05%) JMeter
7 3 (2.05%) JUnit
7 3 (2.05%) Postman
8 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.37%) GitLab
8 2 (1.37%) TestNG
9 1 (0.68%) CocoaPods
9 1 (0.68%) fastlane
9 1 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 43 (29.45%) Finance
3 23 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.33%) Law
5 16 (10.96%) Banking
6 14 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.42%) Publishing
9 4 (2.74%) Back Office
9 4 (2.74%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.74%) Tech for Good
10 3 (2.05%) Front Office
10 3 (2.05%) Retail
11 2 (1.37%) Games
11 2 (1.37%) Legal
11 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (30.14%) Senior
2 29 (19.86%) Software Engineer
3 21 (14.38%) Developer
4 18 (12.33%) Tester
5 14 (9.59%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (8.90%) Development Engineer
6 13 (8.90%) Software Development Engineer
7 12 (8.22%) Software Developer
8 11 (7.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Lead
8 11 (7.53%) Software Tester
9 10 (6.85%) Consultant
9 10 (6.85%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.48%) Developer in Test
10 8 (5.48%) Principal Consultant
10 8 (5.48%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (5.48%) Test Development Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Automation Consultant
11 7 (4.79%) Principal Technical Consultant
11 7 (4.79%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.90%) .NET
2 10 (6.85%) Playwright
2 10 (6.85%) React
3 8 (5.48%) REST
4 6 (4.11%) PySpark
4 6 (4.11%) React Native
5 5 (3.42%) JSON
5 5 (3.42%) Node.js
5 5 (3.42%) XML
6 4 (2.74%) RESTful
6 4 (2.74%) Swagger
7 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.68%) Dropwizard
8 1 (0.68%) Middleware
8 1 (0.68%) OpenGL
8 1 (0.68%) Spring
8 1 (0.68%) Vulkan
8 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) Algorithms
2 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.48%) Reinsurance
3 5 (3.42%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.42%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (3.42%) Mobile Payment
4 4 (2.74%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.74%) Blog
4 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.05%) CMDB
5 3 (2.05%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.37%) AS400
6 2 (1.37%) iSeries
6 2 (1.37%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.53%) Windows
2 2 (1.37%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (49.32%) Test Automation
2 53 (36.30%) Software Engineering
3 44 (30.14%) Agile
4 39 (26.71%) AI
5 38 (26.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (25.34%) CI/CD
7 30 (20.55%) DevOps
8 29 (19.86%) Code Quality
9 24 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (14.38%) Analytics
11 18 (12.33%) Mentoring
11 18 (12.33%) Regression Testing
11 18 (12.33%) SDET
12 17 (11.64%) Decision-Making
13 16 (10.96%) Data Science
13 16 (10.96%) Machine Learning
13 16 (10.96%) Microservices
13 16 (10.96%) TDD
14 15 (10.27%) Fintech
15 14 (9.59%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.62%) Python
2 26 (17.81%) SQL
3 22 (15.07%) C#
4 19 (13.01%) Java
5 17 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.59%) JavaScript
7 12 (8.22%) C++
8 9 (6.16%) Julia
8 9 (6.16%) MATLAB
9 8 (5.48%) R
10 5 (3.42%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.05%) COBOL
12 2 (1.37%) Bash
12 2 (1.37%) Go
12 2 (1.37%) RPG
13 1 (0.68%) C
13 1 (0.68%) Perl
13 1 (0.68%) Rust
13 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (19.86%) Degree
2 17 (11.64%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.85%) ISTQB
5 9 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.16%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.79%) PhD
7 4 (2.74%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.37%) MCSA
8 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.37%) PMP
9 1 (0.68%) CIPD
9 1 (0.68%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (29.45%) QA
2 14 (9.59%) Accessibility
3 11 (7.53%) GDPR
3 11 (7.53%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.37%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.05%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) Terraform
2 3 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.05%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (1.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.11%) Splunk
3 5 (3.42%) Adobe
3 5 (3.42%) Avid
3 5 (3.42%) SolarWinds
4 4 (2.74%) Oracle
4 4 (2.74%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.74%) VMware
5 3 (2.05%) Apple
5 3 (2.05%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.05%) Symantec
5 3 (2.05%) Tenable
5 3 (2.05%) Veeam
6 2 (1.37%) HP
6 2 (1.37%) IBM
6 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.37%) Workday
7 1 (0.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) Misys
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce