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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 257 253
Rank change year-on-year -50 -4 -37
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 147 134 222
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.57% 1.14% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.22% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 76 89 134
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +0.39% -1.92%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £82,375
90th Percentile £136,250 £120,000 £102,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -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 20,784 11,026 16,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.70% 94.11% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,882 6,930 10,060
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,000 £41,000
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% -2.44%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 18 £97,500 +21.88% 14
South London +5 4 £69,501 +81.70% 8
West London - 3 £30,000 - 11
North London -2 2 £62,500 +119.30% 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 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.36%) CMS
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (3.40%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.72%) AutoCAD
2 4 (2.72%) DaVinci Resolve
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.68%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.68%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.17%) Azure
2 28 (19.05%) AWS
3 15 (10.20%) GCP
4 12 (8.16%) Serverless
5 9 (6.12%) GitHub
5 9 (6.12%) SaaS
6 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.08%) BrowserStack
6 6 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (3.40%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.04%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.04%) Datadog
9 3 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.36%) PaaS
10 2 (1.36%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.36%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) SNMP
2 2 (1.36%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) BGP
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) IPv4
3 1 (0.68%) IPv6
3 1 (0.68%) MPLS
3 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.08%) Geospatial Data
2 6 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.04%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.36%) Power BI
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.68%) Big Data
7 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.48%) Selenium
2 10 (6.80%) JIRA
3 8 (5.44%) Git
4 7 (4.76%) Postman
5 6 (4.08%) Claude Code
6 5 (3.40%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.40%) Gatling
6 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.72%) TestRail
7 4 (2.72%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.04%) JMeter
8 3 (2.04%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.36%) GitLab
9 2 (1.36%) JUnit
9 2 (1.36%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.36%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.36%) TestNG
9 2 (1.36%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.36%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 38 (25.85%) Finance
3 25 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (10.20%) Law
6 11 (7.48%) Banking
7 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.40%) Publishing
7 5 (3.40%) Retail
8 4 (2.72%) Front Office
8 4 (2.72%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.72%) Legal
8 4 (2.72%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.04%) Back Office
9 3 (2.04%) Marketing
9 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Legal Technology
10 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) German Language
Job Titles
1 49 (33.33%) Senior
2 34 (23.13%) Developer
3 33 (22.45%) Software Engineer
4 25 (17.01%) Lead
4 25 (17.01%) Software Developer
5 20 (13.61%) Developer in Test
6 18 (12.24%) Consultant
7 17 (11.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (10.20%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.16%) Senior Software Developer
9 12 (8.16%) Test Leader
10 11 (7.48%) Test Consultant
11 10 (6.80%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) Software Consultant
12 8 (5.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (5.44%) Principal Consultant
12 8 (5.44%) QA Engineer
12 8 (5.44%) Tester
13 7 (4.76%) Lead Consultant
13 7 (4.76%) Principal Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.56%) React
2 16 (10.88%) .NET
3 12 (8.16%) Playwright
4 10 (6.80%) Terraform
5 9 (6.12%) REST
5 9 (6.12%) RESTful
6 6 (4.08%) JSON
6 6 (4.08%) React Native
7 5 (3.40%) Swagger
8 4 (2.72%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.72%) PySpark
9 3 (2.04%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.04%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.04%) Dropwizard
9 3 (2.04%) Flutter
9 3 (2.04%) Micronaut
9 3 (2.04%) Node.js
9 3 (2.04%) pytest
10 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.12%) AI Agents
3 9 (6.12%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (5.44%) Reinsurance
5 7 (4.76%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.76%) Mobile App
6 6 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.72%) Blog
8 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.04%) CMDB
8 3 (2.04%) Market Risk
8 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.36%) AS400
9 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.36%) iSeries
9 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.48%) Windows
2 3 (2.04%) Android
3 2 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (49.66%) Test Automation
2 66 (44.90%) Software Engineering
3 49 (33.33%) Agile
4 48 (32.65%) CI/CD
5 41 (27.89%) AI
5 41 (27.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (24.49%) DevOps
7 35 (23.81%) Code Quality
8 34 (23.13%) SDET
9 25 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (15.65%) Decision-Making
11 22 (14.97%) SDLC
12 21 (14.29%) Regression Testing
13 18 (12.24%) Validation
14 17 (11.56%) Analytics
14 17 (11.56%) Mentoring
14 17 (11.56%) Test Strategy
15 15 (10.20%) Data Science
15 15 (10.20%) Microservices
16 14 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.73%) Python
2 25 (17.01%) C#
3 24 (16.33%) SQL
4 17 (11.56%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.84%) C++
5 13 (8.84%) Java
6 9 (6.12%) Julia
6 9 (6.12%) MATLAB
7 8 (5.44%) R
8 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.04%) Go
10 2 (1.36%) Bash
10 2 (1.36%) Clojure
10 2 (1.36%) RPG
11 1 (0.68%) C
11 1 (0.68%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 21 (14.29%) Degree
2 15 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.44%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.72%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.72%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.04%) PhD
7 2 (1.36%) MCSA
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.36%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.36%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.81%) QA
2 15 (10.20%) GDPR
3 13 (8.84%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.72%) WCAG
6 3 (2.04%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (1.36%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.44%) Grafana
1 8 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.04%) Ansible
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.04%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.68%) Kibana
3 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.76%) Splunk
3 5 (3.40%) Google
4 4 (2.72%) Adobe
4 4 (2.72%) Avid
4 4 (2.72%) Databricks
4 4 (2.72%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.04%) Apple
5 3 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle
5 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.04%) Symantec
5 3 (2.04%) Tenable
5 3 (2.04%) Veeam
5 3 (2.04%) VMware
6 2 (1.36%) IBM
6 2 (1.36%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.36%) SGI
6 2 (1.36%) Workday
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco