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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 246 258
Rank change year-on-year -64 +12 -43
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 141 136 220
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 1.16% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.23% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 72 90 132
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £51,875 £53,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +0.79% -2.31%
75th Percentile £95,625 £79,375 £82,125
90th Percentile £135,625 £120,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% -4.35%

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 20,888 11,013 16,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.48% 93.98% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,806 6,905 9,866
10th Percentile £40,829 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 19 £97,500 +21.88% 20
South London +3 5 £69,501 +81.70% 7
North London -2 2 £62,500 +119.30% 1
West London - 1 £30,000 - 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 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.42%) CMS
2 2 (1.42%) Confluence
2 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.42%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.42%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.71%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.71%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.24%) Azure
2 30 (21.28%) AWS
3 14 (9.93%) GCP
4 13 (9.22%) Serverless
5 9 (6.38%) SaaS
6 8 (5.67%) GitHub
7 5 (3.55%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.13%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.13%) Datadog
9 3 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.42%) PaaS
10 2 (1.42%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.42%) SNMP
1 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) BGP
2 1 (0.71%) DHCP
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) IPv4
2 1 (0.71%) IPv6
2 1 (0.71%) MPLS
2 1 (0.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.26%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.55%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.13%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.42%) Chroma
6 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.42%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.42%) Power BI
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.71%) Big Data
7 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (7.09%) Git
1 10 (7.09%) Selenium
2 9 (6.38%) JIRA
3 7 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.26%) Postman
5 5 (3.55%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.55%) Gatling
6 4 (2.84%) GitLab
7 3 (2.13%) Claude Code
7 3 (2.13%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.13%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.42%) JMeter
8 2 (1.42%) JUnit
8 2 (1.42%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.42%) TestNG
8 2 (1.42%) TestRail
8 2 (1.42%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.71%) Xcode
General
1 52 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.40%) Finance
3 27 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.38%) Banking
5 9 (6.38%) Law
6 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Publishing
6 5 (3.55%) Retail
7 4 (2.84%) Front Office
7 4 (2.84%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.84%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.13%) Back Office
8 3 (2.13%) Legal
8 3 (2.13%) Marketing
8 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Legal Technology
9 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) German Language
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (35.46%) Senior
2 36 (25.53%) Developer
3 33 (23.40%) Software Engineer
4 25 (17.73%) Software Developer
5 24 (17.02%) Lead
6 20 (14.18%) Developer in Test
7 18 (12.77%) Consultant
7 18 (12.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (11.35%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.51%) Senior Software Developer
9 12 (8.51%) Test Leader
10 11 (7.80%) Test Consultant
11 10 (7.09%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (7.09%) Software Consultant
12 9 (6.38%) Python Developer
13 8 (5.67%) Principal Consultant
13 8 (5.67%) QA Engineer
14 7 (4.96%) Lead Developer
14 7 (4.96%) Technical Consultant
14 7 (4.96%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.48%) React
2 15 (10.64%) .NET
3 13 (9.22%) Terraform
4 11 (7.80%) Playwright
5 10 (7.09%) RESTful
6 9 (6.38%) REST
7 6 (4.26%) JSON
8 5 (3.55%) React Native
8 5 (3.55%) Swagger
9 4 (2.84%) ASP.NET
9 4 (2.84%) PySpark
10 3 (2.13%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.13%) Dropwizard
10 3 (2.13%) Flutter
10 3 (2.13%) Micronaut
10 3 (2.13%) pytest
11 2 (1.42%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (1.42%) FastAPI
11 2 (1.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.51%) AI Agents
2 12 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.38%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (5.67%) Reinsurance
5 7 (4.96%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.96%) Mobile App
6 6 (4.26%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.84%) Blog
8 3 (2.13%) CMDB
8 3 (2.13%) Market Risk
8 3 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.42%) AS400
9 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.42%) iSeries
9 2 (1.42%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.38%) Windows
2 3 (2.13%) Android
3 2 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (50.35%) Test Automation
2 65 (46.10%) Software Engineering
3 52 (36.88%) CI/CD
4 51 (36.17%) Agile
5 40 (28.37%) AI
5 40 (28.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (25.53%) DevOps
7 34 (24.11%) Code Quality
8 33 (23.40%) SDET
9 27 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (16.31%) Decision-Making
11 22 (15.60%) SDLC
12 20 (14.18%) Regression Testing
13 19 (13.48%) Mentoring
13 19 (13.48%) Validation
14 17 (12.06%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (11.35%) Test Strategy
16 15 (10.64%) Data Science
17 14 (9.93%) Analytics
17 14 (9.93%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 53 (37.59%) Python
2 25 (17.73%) SQL
3 24 (17.02%) C#
4 20 (14.18%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.93%) Java
6 13 (9.22%) C++
7 9 (6.38%) Julia
7 9 (6.38%) MATLAB
8 8 (5.67%) R
9 6 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.55%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.84%) Go
12 2 (1.42%) Bash
12 2 (1.42%) Clojure
12 2 (1.42%) RPG
13 1 (0.71%) C
13 1 (0.71%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 15 (10.64%) Degree
1 15 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.96%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.84%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.13%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.42%) MCSA
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.28%) QA
2 15 (10.64%) GDPR
3 11 (7.80%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.84%) WCAG
5 2 (1.42%) PMO
6 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (7.80%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.67%) Grafana
3 3 (2.13%) Ansible
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.13%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.71%) Kibana
4 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.55%) Google
2 5 (3.55%) Splunk
3 4 (2.84%) Databricks
3 4 (2.84%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.13%) Apple
4 3 (2.13%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.13%) Symantec
4 3 (2.13%) Tenable
4 3 (2.13%) Veeam
4 3 (2.13%) VMware
5 2 (1.42%) Adobe
5 2 (1.42%) Avid
5 2 (1.42%) IBM
5 2 (1.42%) Mistral
5 2 (1.42%) Oracle
5 2 (1.42%) SGI
5 2 (1.42%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.42%) Workday