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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 232 249
Rank change year-on-year -37 +17 -111
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 148 163 293
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 1.32% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.37% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 106 125 244
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,200 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,939 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,813 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £51,259
% change year-on-year +2.80% +4.37% -6.80%

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 16,643 11,878 21,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.56% 96.05% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11,165 7,220 15,935
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -21 24 £105,000 +55.56% 9
West London -7 13 £30,000 -
East London - 2 £30,000 - 4
North London +1 1 £45,000 -35.71% 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 5 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.35%) CMS
2 2 (1.35%) Confluence
2 2 (1.35%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) AutoCAD
1 5 (3.38%) DaVinci Resolve
1 5 (3.38%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) 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 44 (29.73%) AWS
2 37 (25.00%) Azure
3 18 (12.16%) GCP
4 9 (6.08%) BrowserStack
5 8 (5.41%) GitHub
5 8 (5.41%) Serverless
6 7 (4.73%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.73%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.35%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.35%) SaaS
9 2 (1.35%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.68%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.68%) PaaS
10 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.68%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) SNMP
2 2 (1.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (4.05%) Spark SQL
2 5 (3.38%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Big Data
5 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Selenium
2 10 (6.76%) JIRA
3 8 (5.41%) SpecFlow
3 8 (5.41%) WebDriver
4 7 (4.73%) Claude Code
5 5 (3.38%) TestRail
6 4 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.70%) Git
6 4 (2.70%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.03%) JBehave
7 3 (2.03%) JUnit
7 3 (2.03%) Postman
7 3 (2.03%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.35%) TestNG
9 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.68%) Subversion
9 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.00%) Finance
3 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.14%) Law
4 12 (8.11%) Banking
5 7 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.70%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.70%) Publishing
7 4 (2.70%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Back Office
9 2 (1.35%) Games
9 2 (1.35%) Legal
9 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (24.32%) Senior
2 32 (21.62%) Software Engineer
3 27 (18.24%) Development Engineer
3 27 (18.24%) Software Development Engineer
4 22 (14.86%) Test Development Engineer
5 21 (14.19%) Tester
6 16 (10.81%) Developer
7 14 (9.46%) Lead
8 12 (8.11%) Software Tester
9 11 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Consultant
11 9 (6.08%) Principal Consultant
11 9 (6.08%) Software Developer
12 8 (5.41%) Senior Developer
12 8 (5.41%) Senior Development Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) Test Manager
13 7 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.86%) .NET
2 18 (12.16%) React
3 14 (9.46%) Node.js
4 9 (6.08%) Playwright
5 7 (4.73%) REST
6 6 (4.05%) PySpark
7 5 (3.38%) JSON
7 5 (3.38%) React Native
7 5 (3.38%) Swagger
7 5 (3.38%) XML
8 4 (2.70%) RESTful
9 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (1.35%) HTML
9 2 (1.35%) SOAP
10 1 (0.68%) Kafka
10 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.68%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 1 (0.68%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.38%) Mobile Payment
4 4 (2.70%) Blog
5 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.03%) AS400
5 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.03%) iSeries
6 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.68%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.68%) LPAR
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (54.05%) Test Automation
2 48 (32.43%) Agile
3 39 (26.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 32 (21.62%) Software Engineering
6 30 (20.27%) AI
7 28 (18.92%) DevOps
7 28 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (18.92%) SDET
8 27 (18.24%) Software Delivery
9 21 (14.19%) Computer Science
10 18 (12.16%) Microservices
10 18 (12.16%) Scrum
11 17 (11.49%) Fintech
11 17 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (11.49%) Non-Functional Testing
12 16 (10.81%) Code Quality
12 16 (10.81%) Manual Testing
12 16 (10.81%) TDD
13 15 (10.14%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.95%) Python
2 29 (19.59%) TypeScript
3 26 (17.57%) Java
3 26 (17.57%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.51%) SQL
5 17 (11.49%) C#
6 5 (3.38%) C++
7 3 (2.03%) COBOL
8 2 (1.35%) Go
8 2 (1.35%) Julia
8 2 (1.35%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.35%) R
8 2 (1.35%) RPG
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) C
9 1 (0.68%) Perl
9 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.68%) Rust
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (24.32%) Degree
2 18 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.49%) ISTQB
4 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.73%) PhD
7 4 (2.70%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.70%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.03%) PMP
9 2 (1.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CIPD
10 1 (0.68%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.70%) QA
2 17 (11.49%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.11%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (2.03%) GDPR
5 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (2.03%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.03%) Terraform
2 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.38%) Adobe
2 5 (3.38%) Avid
2 5 (3.38%) SolarWinds
2 5 (3.38%) Splunk
3 2 (1.35%) HP
3 2 (1.35%) IBM
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle
3 2 (1.35%) Workday
4 1 (0.68%) Civica
4 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.68%) Google
4 1 (0.68%) Misys
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.68%) SAP
4 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.68%) Siebel
4 1 (0.68%) VMware