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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 243 219
Rank change year-on-year -11 -24 -65
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 135 220 306
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.15% 1.22% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.36% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 89 131 245
10th Percentile £47,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £64,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -0.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +1.82% -2.22% +7.14%

All Process and 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 10,987 16,179 19,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 93.82% 89.73% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,979 9,678 15,599
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,370 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 2025. 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 +13 23 £80,000 +45.45% 11
South London +4 1 £30,000 -63.64% 1
North London -7 1 £28,500 -45.71% 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 (2.96%) nginx
1 4 (2.96%) Traefik
2 2 (1.48%) CMS
2 2 (1.48%) IIS
2 2 (1.48%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.74%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.74%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.33%) AWS
2 25 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
2 25 (18.52%) Serverless
3 22 (16.30%) Azure
4 9 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (5.19%) SaaS
6 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.96%) Akamai
7 4 (2.96%) Cloudflare
7 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.22%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.22%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (2.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) DHCP
1 4 (2.96%) DNS
1 4 (2.96%) ICMP
1 4 (2.96%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (2.96%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.96%) VPN
2 1 (0.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.30%) DynamoDB
2 21 (15.56%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (11.85%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.70%) Power BI
7 4 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.96%) Metadata
7 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.22%) Mixpanel
8 3 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.48%) Big Data
9 2 (1.48%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.48%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (14.81%) JIRA
2 18 (13.33%) Selenium
3 15 (11.11%) Git
4 13 (9.63%) Jenkins
5 10 (7.41%) Postman
5 10 (7.41%) WebDriver
6 6 (4.44%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.44%) Maven
6 6 (4.44%) TestRail
7 4 (2.96%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (2.96%) JMeter
7 4 (2.96%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.22%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.22%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (2.22%) Fiddler
8 3 (2.22%) JUnit
8 3 (2.22%) Locust
8 3 (2.22%) TestNG
8 3 (2.22%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 62 (45.93%) Social Skills
2 50 (37.04%) Finance
3 39 (28.89%) Law
4 36 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (24.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (21.48%) Banking
7 22 (16.30%) Health Technology
7 22 (16.30%) Publishing
8 21 (15.56%) Tech for Good
9 11 (8.15%) Legal
10 8 (5.93%) Front Office
10 8 (5.93%) Investment Banking
11 7 (5.19%) Marketing
11 7 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (3.70%) Advertising
13 4 (2.96%) Games
13 4 (2.96%) Public Sector
14 3 (2.22%) Electronics
15 2 (1.48%) Back Office
15 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (31.11%) Developer
2 40 (29.63%) Senior
3 35 (25.93%) Software Engineer
4 33 (24.44%) Lead
5 23 (17.04%) Senior Developer
6 20 (14.81%) Software Developer
7 19 (14.07%) Python Engineer
7 19 (14.07%) Python Software Engineer
8 17 (12.59%) Lead Software Engineer
8 17 (12.59%) Python Developer
8 17 (12.59%) Senior Python Developer
9 12 (8.89%) Test Engineer
10 11 (8.15%) Senior Software Developer
10 11 (8.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (5.93%) Analyst
12 8 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.93%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (4.44%) AWS Developer
13 6 (4.44%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (31.11%) React
2 31 (22.96%) RESTful
3 24 (17.78%) .NET
4 23 (17.04%) Swagger
5 13 (9.63%) Playwright
6 10 (7.41%) Kafka
6 10 (7.41%) REST
7 9 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 9 (6.67%) HTML
8 8 (5.93%) ASP.NET
8 8 (5.93%) Node.js
9 7 (5.19%) CSS
9 7 (5.19%) Entity Framework
10 6 (4.44%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.44%) CSS3
10 6 (4.44%) HTML5
10 6 (4.44%) Spring
11 5 (3.70%) jQuery
11 5 (3.70%) Web Services
12 4 (2.96%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.93%) Derivative
4 8 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.93%) Mobile Banking
4 8 (5.93%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.96%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.96%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.22%) W3C
8 2 (1.48%) Replication
8 2 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.74%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.41%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) Windows
3 3 (2.22%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (70.37%) Agile
2 58 (42.96%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (36.30%) CI/CD
4 40 (29.63%) Software Engineering
5 38 (28.15%) Test Automation
6 36 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (25.93%) SDLC
8 34 (25.19%) Computer Science
9 33 (24.44%) Scrum
10 29 (21.48%) Operational Stability
10 29 (21.48%) TDD
11 25 (18.52%) Data Science
11 25 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (17.04%) DevOps
13 21 (15.56%) Continuous Delivery
13 21 (15.56%) Pair Programming
14 19 (14.07%) Fintech
15 18 (13.33%) Manual Testing
16 17 (12.59%) Code Quality
17 16 (11.85%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 54 (40.00%) Python
2 46 (34.07%) Java
3 35 (25.93%) TypeScript
4 28 (20.74%) SQL
5 22 (16.30%) C#
6 16 (11.85%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.70%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.96%) Bash
8 4 (2.96%) Go
8 4 (2.96%) Groovy
9 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.48%) Scala
9 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.74%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) Smalltalk
10 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (27.41%) Degree
2 15 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 11 (8.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.93%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.96%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.96%) PhD
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.22%) ISEB
7 2 (1.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CISA
8 1 (0.74%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (30.37%) QA
2 12 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.19%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.96%) WCAG
5 3 (2.22%) SEPA
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) NIST
6 1 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (12.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.19%) Terraform
3 4 (2.96%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.74%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.19%) Oracle
3 5 (3.70%) Databricks
4 3 (2.22%) Adobe
4 3 (2.22%) Tealium
5 2 (1.48%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.48%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.48%) Workday
6 1 (0.74%) FIS
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) iManage
6 1 (0.74%) OpenLink