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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 239 196
Rank change year-on-year -33 -43 -55
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 120 206 335
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.79% 1.37% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.43% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 104 116 273
10th Percentile £47,800 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -12.41% +11.54%
75th Percentile £110,625 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 13,118 14,376 19,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.64% 95.27% 91.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,448 7,804 15,738
10th Percentile £37,375 £43,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £52,652
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +5 33 £112,500 +87.50% 13
West London -2 3 £32,500 +8.33% 6
South London +28 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 2 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) CMS
2 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.83%) AWS
2 24 (20.00%) Azure
3 14 (11.67%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.33%) BrowserStack
4 10 (8.33%) GCP
5 7 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.00%) SaaS
6 6 (5.00%) Serverless
7 4 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.33%) Datadog
8 3 (2.50%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (1.67%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.83%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.83%) Power BI
3 6 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.50%) Mixpanel
5 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.67%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.83%) Big Data
7 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (18.33%) Selenium
2 16 (13.33%) JIRA
3 13 (10.83%) Git
4 12 (10.00%) WebDriver
5 11 (9.17%) Postman
6 7 (5.83%) SoapUI
6 7 (5.83%) SpecFlow
7 6 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 5 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.17%) Jenkins
9 4 (3.33%) TestNG
9 4 (3.33%) TestRail
9 4 (3.33%) Visual Studio
9 4 (3.33%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.50%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (2.50%) Charles Proxy
10 3 (2.50%) JMeter
10 3 (2.50%) JUnit
10 3 (2.50%) Maven
10 3 (2.50%) REST Assured
General
1 42 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (24.17%) Finance
3 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.17%) Law
5 6 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.17%) Health Technology
6 5 (4.17%) Marketing
7 4 (3.33%) Electronics
7 4 (3.33%) Games
7 4 (3.33%) Legal
7 4 (3.33%) Publishing
7 4 (3.33%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.50%) Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Advertising
10 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.83%) Lead
2 24 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 21 (17.50%) Developer
4 17 (14.17%) Development Engineer
4 17 (14.17%) Software Development Engineer
4 17 (14.17%) Test Development Engineer
5 16 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 15 (12.50%) Senior
7 12 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 9 (7.50%) Test Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Tester
10 6 (5.00%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) QA Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Developer in Test
11 5 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.17%) QA Leader
11 5 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.33%) .NET
2 26 (21.67%) React
3 18 (15.00%) Node.js
4 12 (10.00%) Playwright
5 8 (6.67%) REST
5 8 (6.67%) RESTful
6 7 (5.83%) .NET Framework
6 7 (5.83%) Entity Framework
6 7 (5.83%) HTML
6 7 (5.83%) Swagger
7 6 (5.00%) XML
8 5 (4.17%) .NET Core
8 5 (4.17%) CSS
9 4 (3.33%) CSS3
9 4 (3.33%) HTML5
9 4 (3.33%) Spring
10 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.50%) jQuery
10 3 (2.50%) JSON
10 3 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.50%) W3C
6 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.83%) AS400
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) iSeries
7 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (60.00%) Agile
2 66 (55.00%) Test Automation
3 51 (42.50%) CI/CD
4 48 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (27.50%) Computer Science
6 33 (27.50%) Software Delivery
7 26 (21.67%) Manual Testing
8 25 (20.83%) SDET
9 23 (19.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (19.17%) Scrum
10 22 (18.33%) User Experience
11 20 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (15.83%) Defect Management
13 18 (15.00%) Clean Code
14 17 (14.17%) Non-Functional Testing
14 17 (14.17%) SDLC
15 16 (13.33%) DevOps
15 16 (13.33%) ETL
15 16 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 39 (32.50%) Java
2 33 (27.50%) TypeScript
3 30 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 26 (21.67%) SQL
5 24 (20.00%) Python
6 21 (17.50%) C#
7 2 (1.67%) Bash
8 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.83%) Perl
8 1 (0.83%) PHP
8 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.83%) Rust
8 1 (0.83%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (34.17%) Degree
2 25 (20.83%) ISTQB
3 13 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.33%) ISEB
7 3 (2.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (26.67%) QA
2 19 (15.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.17%) WCAG
4 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.50%) SEPA
5 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.83%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.50%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) Ansible
3 1 (0.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.33%) Oracle
2 4 (3.33%) Siebel
3 3 (2.50%) Adobe
3 3 (2.50%) HP
3 3 (2.50%) Tealium
4 2 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.67%) SAP
5 1 (0.83%) Civica
5 1 (0.83%) Databricks
5 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.83%) Google
5 1 (0.83%) OpenText
5 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.83%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.83%) VMware