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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 229 214
Rank change year-on-year -38 -15 -64
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 110 230 263
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 1.43% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.52% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 95 139 207
10th Percentile £49,750 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £120,000 £82,000 £88,750
90th Percentile - £105,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 12,060 15,127 16,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.26% 94.13% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7,749 8,618 13,368
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £116,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +12 32 £120,000 +100.00% 10
South London +25 1 - - 3
North London +3 1 £28,500 -49.33% 2
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 2 (1.82%) CMS
1 2 (1.82%) Confluence
1 2 (1.82%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.91%) IIS
2 1 (0.91%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (0.91%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.91%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.73%) AWS
2 20 (18.18%) Azure
3 15 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (11.82%) Serverless
5 9 (8.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.36%) SaaS
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.73%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (2.73%) BrowserStack
9 3 (2.73%) Datadog
10 2 (1.82%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.82%) GCP
10 2 (1.82%) GitHub
11 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.82%) DynamoDB
2 12 (10.91%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (10.91%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.27%) Power BI
5 5 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.64%) Metadata
6 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.73%) Mixpanel
7 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.82%) Big Data
8 2 (1.82%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (16.36%) JIRA
2 17 (15.45%) Selenium
3 13 (11.82%) Git
4 11 (10.00%) Postman
5 9 (8.18%) WebDriver
6 6 (5.45%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.45%) Cypress.io
6 6 (5.45%) Jenkins
6 6 (5.45%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.64%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (3.64%) JMeter
7 4 (3.64%) SpecFlow
7 4 (3.64%) TestRail
7 4 (3.64%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.73%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (2.73%) Fiddler
8 3 (2.73%) JUnit
8 3 (2.73%) NUnit
8 3 (2.73%) TestNG
8 3 (2.73%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.36%) Finance
3 20 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.82%) Health Technology
4 13 (11.82%) Publishing
5 12 (10.91%) Law
5 12 (10.91%) Tech for Good
6 7 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.45%) Banking
7 6 (5.45%) Marketing
7 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.55%) Games
8 5 (4.55%) Legal
9 4 (3.64%) Electronics
10 3 (2.73%) Advertising
10 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.91%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.91%) Retail
12 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (30.00%) Lead
2 29 (26.36%) Developer
3 21 (19.09%) Senior
4 17 (15.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 15 (13.64%) Software Developer
6 14 (12.73%) Senior Developer
7 12 (10.91%) Python Developer
7 12 (10.91%) Senior Python Developer
7 12 (10.91%) Test Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (5.45%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Python Software Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) QA Leader
10 6 (5.45%) React Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior React Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (32.73%) React
2 27 (24.55%) .NET
3 19 (17.27%) Node.js
4 16 (14.55%) RESTful
5 15 (13.64%) Swagger
6 11 (10.00%) Playwright
7 8 (7.27%) REST
8 7 (6.36%) .NET Framework
8 7 (6.36%) Entity Framework
9 6 (5.45%) CSS
9 6 (5.45%) HTML
10 5 (4.55%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.55%) CSS3
10 5 (4.55%) HTML5
10 5 (4.55%) XML
11 4 (3.64%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.64%) Kafka
11 4 (3.64%) Spring
12 3 (2.73%) jQuery
12 3 (2.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.64%) Reference Data
3 4 (3.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.73%) W3C
5 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.82%) Replication
5 2 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.91%) AS400
6 1 (0.91%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.91%) FMCG
6 1 (0.91%) IoT
6 1 (0.91%) iSeries
6 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Unix
3 2 (1.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (72.73%) Agile
2 47 (42.73%) Test Automation
3 46 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (40.91%) CI/CD
5 41 (37.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (29.09%) Computer Science
7 28 (25.45%) Scrum
8 26 (23.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (20.91%) User Experience
10 21 (19.09%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (18.18%) Clean Code
11 20 (18.18%) Manual Testing
11 20 (18.18%) Software Delivery
12 18 (16.36%) Data Science
13 17 (15.45%) Prototyping
14 16 (14.55%) DevOps
14 16 (14.55%) ETL
15 15 (13.64%) Test Scripting
16 14 (12.73%) Test Management
17 13 (11.82%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.73%) Java
1 36 (32.73%) TypeScript
2 28 (25.45%) Python
3 26 (23.64%) JavaScript
4 23 (20.91%) SQL
5 18 (16.36%) C#
6 2 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.82%) Scala
6 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.91%) Bash
7 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.91%) PHP
7 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (34.55%) Degree
2 19 (17.27%) ISTQB
3 12 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.55%) ISEB
6 4 (3.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (30.91%) QA
2 12 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.36%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.64%) WCAG
5 3 (2.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.82%) Terraform
4 1 (0.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) Oracle
3 3 (2.73%) Adobe
3 3 (2.73%) HP
3 3 (2.73%) Siebel
3 3 (2.73%) Tealium
4 2 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.82%) Databricks
4 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.91%) Civica
5 1 (0.91%) iManage
5 1 (0.91%) OpenText
5 1 (0.91%) SAP
5 1 (0.91%) Sitecore