Software Testing Jobs in London

Software Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 244 140
Rank change year-on-year +2 -104 +32
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 166 299 902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.28% 1.26% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.39% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 129 248 417
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £42,366
25th Percentile £51,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £95,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +3.35%

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 12,513 21,570 32,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.22% 91.16% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,302 15,997 23,624
10th Percentile £42,464 £37,500 £43,411
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in London.

Salary trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in London over the 6 months to 13 May 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 13 May 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 +21 31 £67,500 - 15
South London -21 11 £52,000 -21.51% 3
West London +22 2 £30,000 -40.00% 9
North London - 1 £70,000 -
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.41%) Cloud Foundry
1 4 (2.41%) Confluence
1 4 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.81%) WinCC
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.20%) Appian
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) iTrent
2 1 (0.60%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.60%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.93%) AWS
2 43 (25.90%) Azure
3 20 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (9.04%) Serverless
5 14 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (8.43%) GCP
6 12 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (6.02%) GitHub
7 10 (6.02%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.41%) Figma
9 4 (2.41%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.81%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.81%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.81%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.81%) SaaS
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) HTTP
2 2 (1.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) BGP
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.43%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.43%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.23%) DynamoDB
4 11 (6.63%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.82%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.82%) MySQL
6 5 (3.01%) Power BI
6 5 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.81%) Big Data
9 2 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.20%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.20%) Redis
10 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (15.66%) Selenium
2 21 (12.65%) Git
2 21 (12.65%) JIRA
3 18 (10.84%) Jenkins
4 17 (10.24%) Cypress.io
4 17 (10.24%) JMeter
5 16 (9.64%) JUnit
5 16 (9.64%) Postman
6 14 (8.43%) IntelliJ
7 9 (5.42%) NUnit
7 9 (5.42%) REST Assured
7 9 (5.42%) TestNG
8 8 (4.82%) Appium
8 8 (4.82%) Maven
9 7 (4.22%) Gatling
9 7 (4.22%) SoapUI
10 6 (3.61%) Mocha
10 6 (3.61%) MSTest
11 5 (3.01%) Gradle
11 5 (3.01%) SpecFlow
General
1 44 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.06%) Finance
4 12 (7.23%) Health Technology
4 12 (7.23%) Publishing
4 12 (7.23%) Tech for Good
5 11 (6.63%) Banking
5 11 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.01%) Games
8 4 (2.41%) Advertising
9 3 (1.81%) Law
10 2 (1.20%) Back Office
10 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (25.30%) Senior
2 41 (24.70%) Developer
3 18 (10.84%) Senior Developer
4 17 (10.24%) Lead
4 17 (10.24%) Software Engineer
5 16 (9.64%) Java Engineer
5 16 (9.64%) Software Developer
6 14 (8.43%) Senior Java Engineer
7 13 (7.83%) Analyst
8 12 (7.23%) QA Engineer
8 12 (7.23%) Senior Software Developer
9 11 (6.63%) Tester
10 8 (4.82%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.22%) QA Leader
11 7 (4.22%) Test Leader
12 6 (3.61%) Developer in Test
12 6 (3.61%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Senior Python Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.71%) React
2 30 (18.07%) REST
3 29 (17.47%) RESTful
4 21 (12.65%) .NET
5 17 (10.24%) AngularJS
5 17 (10.24%) Swagger
6 16 (9.64%) Web Services
7 13 (7.83%) Kafka
8 11 (6.63%) HTML
8 11 (6.63%) JSON
8 11 (6.63%) Playwright
9 10 (6.02%) .NET Core
9 10 (6.02%) .NET Framework
10 8 (4.82%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.82%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (4.82%) jQuery
10 8 (4.82%) Node.js
11 7 (4.22%) CSS
11 7 (4.22%) Spring
12 6 (3.61%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.42%) Mobile App
2 8 (4.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.61%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.01%) Mobile Games
5 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.81%) FPGA
6 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.81%) SCADA
7 2 (1.20%) Derivative
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.20%) Equities
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.60%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.63%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Windows
3 7 (4.22%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.01%) Android
5 3 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.20%) Unix
7 1 (0.60%) Fedora
7 1 (0.60%) Rocky
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (53.01%) Agile
2 83 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 60 (36.14%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (21.08%) TDD
5 32 (19.28%) CI/CD
5 32 (19.28%) DevOps
5 32 (19.28%) SDLC
5 32 (19.28%) Security Testing
6 28 (16.87%) Code Quality
6 28 (16.87%) Scrum
6 28 (16.87%) Software Engineering
7 26 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (15.66%) Manual Testing
8 25 (15.06%) Containerisation
9 24 (14.46%) Performance Testing
9 24 (14.46%) SDET
10 23 (13.86%) Test Scripting
10 23 (13.86%) Test Strategy
11 22 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (10.84%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.34%) Java
1 57 (34.34%) SQL
2 44 (26.51%) Python
3 39 (23.49%) JavaScript
4 37 (22.29%) C#
5 31 (18.67%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.82%) C++
7 7 (4.22%) Scala
7 7 (4.22%) Swift
8 4 (2.41%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.41%) Rust
9 3 (1.81%) Bash
9 3 (1.81%) VB
10 2 (1.20%) C
10 2 (1.20%) Groovy
10 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.20%) Ruby
10 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (28.31%) Degree
2 23 (13.86%) ISTQB
3 18 (10.84%) Master's Degree
4 14 (8.43%) PhD
5 13 (7.83%) Security Cleared
6 12 (7.23%) SC Cleared
7 10 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (5.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (4.22%) AWS Certification
10 6 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.41%) CISSP
12 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.81%) ISEB
12 3 (1.81%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.60%) CCNP
14 1 (0.60%) CCSP
14 1 (0.60%) CISA
14 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (36.14%) QA
2 6 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.41%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (1.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) COBIT
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (18.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.42%) Argo
3 5 (3.01%) HP Quality Center
3 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.41%) Terraform
5 3 (1.81%) Ansible
5 3 (1.81%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.81%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (6.63%) Oracle
2 10 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.22%) Google
4 5 (3.01%) New Relic
5 4 (2.41%) IBM
6 3 (1.81%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.81%) Siemens
6 3 (1.81%) Splunk
7 2 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.20%) Databricks
7 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.60%) Apple
8 1 (0.60%) FIS
8 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.60%) Intel
8 1 (0.60%) Mercator
8 1 (0.60%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.60%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.60%) Sybase
8 1 (0.60%) Xilinx