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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 247 204
Rank change year-on-year -18 -43 -64
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 134 164 322
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 1.27% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.32% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 107 119 263
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £122,000 £137,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 15,472 12,420 20,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.13% 96.23% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,128 7,588 15,922
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 6 April 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 April 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 -8 28 £120,000 +92.00% 15
West London -8 12 £30,000 - 4
East London - 2 £30,000 - 6
South London +21 1 - - 2
North London +3 1 £45,000 -30.77% 1
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 4 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (4.48%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.99%) AutoCAD
2 4 (2.99%) DaVinci Resolve
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.33%) AWS
2 34 (25.37%) Azure
3 20 (14.93%) GCP
4 12 (8.96%) BrowserStack
5 8 (5.97%) GitHub
6 7 (5.22%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.48%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.24%) Serverless
10 2 (1.49%) SaaS
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.75%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (0.75%) Datadog
11 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.75%) SonarCloud
11 1 (0.75%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) SNMP
2 2 (1.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.99%) Spark SQL
3 3 (2.24%) Power BI
4 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (13.43%) Selenium
2 12 (8.96%) JIRA
3 11 (8.21%) SpecFlow
4 9 (6.72%) WebDriver
5 7 (5.22%) Claude Code
5 7 (5.22%) Postman
6 6 (4.48%) SoapUI
7 5 (3.73%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.73%) TestRail
8 4 (2.99%) Git
8 4 (2.99%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.99%) Zephyr
9 3 (2.24%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.24%) JBehave
9 3 (2.24%) JUnit
9 3 (2.24%) NUnit
10 2 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.49%) TestNG
11 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 40 (29.85%) Finance
3 14 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.45%) Law
4 10 (7.46%) Banking
5 8 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.99%) Games
7 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.24%) Marketing
8 2 (1.49%) Back Office
8 2 (1.49%) Electronics
8 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) Software Engineer
2 25 (18.66%) Development Engineer
2 25 (18.66%) Software Development Engineer
3 24 (17.91%) Lead
4 22 (16.42%) Senior
5 21 (15.67%) Tester
6 20 (14.93%) Test Development Engineer
7 16 (11.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Software Tester
9 9 (6.72%) QA Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Senior Development Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Senior Software Development Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Test Manager
11 7 (5.22%) Analyst
11 7 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Developer
13 5 (3.73%) Test Analyst
13 5 (3.73%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.66%) .NET
2 21 (15.67%) React
3 20 (14.93%) Node.js
4 11 (8.21%) Playwright
5 8 (5.97%) REST
5 8 (5.97%) XML
6 5 (3.73%) JSON
6 5 (3.73%) React Native
7 4 (2.99%) PySpark
8 3 (2.24%) Spring
9 2 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.49%) HTML
9 2 (1.49%) SOAP
10 1 (0.75%) ADO
10 1 (0.75%) Kafka
10 1 (0.75%) Middleware
10 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.73%) Mobile Payment
3 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.75%) AS400
6 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.75%) IoT
6 1 (0.75%) iSeries
6 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (54.48%) Test Automation
2 56 (41.79%) Agile
3 46 (34.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (32.84%) CI/CD
5 32 (23.88%) Software Delivery
6 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (20.15%) Computer Science
8 26 (19.40%) Software Engineering
9 25 (18.66%) AI
10 24 (17.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (17.91%) SDET
11 23 (17.16%) Manual Testing
12 21 (15.67%) Non-Functional Testing
13 19 (14.18%) Defect Management
14 18 (13.43%) DevOps
14 18 (13.43%) Microservices
14 18 (13.43%) User Experience
15 17 (12.69%) Fintech
15 17 (12.69%) Scrum
15 17 (12.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.63%) Java
2 32 (23.88%) JavaScript
2 32 (23.88%) TypeScript
3 25 (18.66%) Python
3 25 (18.66%) SQL
4 17 (12.69%) C#
5 2 (1.49%) Bash
5 2 (1.49%) C++
5 2 (1.49%) COBOL
5 2 (1.49%) Go
5 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.75%) Perl
6 1 (0.75%) PHP
6 1 (0.75%) Rust
6 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (34.33%) Degree
2 24 (17.91%) ISTQB
3 10 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.72%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.97%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.22%) PhD
7 6 (4.48%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.99%) ISEB
8 4 (2.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (2.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.75%) CIPD
10 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (30.60%) QA
2 17 (12.69%) Accessibility
3 11 (8.21%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (2.24%) HP ALM
1 3 (2.24%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.24%) Terraform
2 1 (0.75%) Ansible
2 1 (0.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.73%) HP
3 4 (2.99%) Adobe
3 4 (2.99%) Avid
3 4 (2.99%) Siebel
3 4 (2.99%) SolarWinds
3 4 (2.99%) Splunk
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle
4 2 (1.49%) SAP
5 1 (0.75%) Civica
5 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.75%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) OpenText
5 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.75%) VMware