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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 242 276
Rank change year-on-year -43 +34 -51
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 147 149 206
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 1.26% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.34% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 81 96 131
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £70,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £112,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,565 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.02% +1.03% -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 19,982 11,150 16,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.70% 94.13% 89.32%
Number of salaries quoted 13,628 7,041 10,487
10th Percentile £41,125 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -0.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 15 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 15 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 -7 20 £97,500 +21.88% 16
West London - 6 £30,000 - 12
South London +3 3 £69,501 +81.70% 11
North London +2 2 £62,500 +119.30% 4
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 5 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.36%) CMS
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.40%) AutoCAD
2 5 (3.40%) DaVinci Resolve
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
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%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.68%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.21%) Azure
2 31 (21.09%) AWS
3 18 (12.24%) GCP
4 10 (6.80%) GitHub
4 10 (6.80%) Serverless
5 9 (6.12%) SaaS
6 7 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.08%) BrowserStack
8 5 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.04%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.04%) Datadog
10 3 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.36%) PaaS
11 2 (1.36%) Tricentis Tosca
12 1 (0.68%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.40%) 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%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.08%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.72%) Spark SQL
5 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.68%) Big Data
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Power BI
6 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.48%) Selenium
2 9 (6.12%) JIRA
3 8 (5.44%) Git
4 7 (4.76%) Claude Code
4 7 (4.76%) Postman
5 5 (3.40%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.40%) Gatling
5 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.40%) TestRail
5 5 (3.40%) Zephyr
6 3 (2.04%) JMeter
6 3 (2.04%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.36%) GitLab
7 2 (1.36%) JUnit
7 2 (1.36%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.36%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.36%) TestNG
7 2 (1.36%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.36%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
General
1 46 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.57%) Finance
3 23 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.24%) Law
5 17 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (8.84%) Banking
7 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.40%) Publishing
9 4 (2.72%) Front Office
9 4 (2.72%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.72%) Legal
9 4 (2.72%) Retail
9 4 (2.72%) Tech for Good
10 3 (2.04%) Back Office
10 3 (2.04%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.36%) Legal Technology
11 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (34.69%) Senior
2 32 (21.77%) Software Engineer
3 31 (21.09%) Developer
4 25 (17.01%) Lead
5 23 (15.65%) Software Developer
6 18 (12.24%) Developer in Test
6 18 (12.24%) Senior Software Engineer
7 17 (11.56%) Consultant
8 14 (9.52%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.16%) Test Leader
9 12 (8.16%) Tester
10 11 (7.48%) Senior Software Developer
11 10 (6.80%) Development Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) Software Development Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) Test Consultant
12 9 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Software Consultant
13 8 (5.44%) Principal Consultant
13 8 (5.44%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.88%) React
2 12 (8.16%) .NET
2 12 (8.16%) Playwright
3 10 (6.80%) React Native
4 9 (6.12%) REST
4 9 (6.12%) Terraform
5 7 (4.76%) RESTful
6 6 (4.08%) JSON
7 5 (3.40%) Node.js
7 5 (3.40%) PySpark
7 5 (3.40%) Swagger
8 4 (2.72%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.04%) Dropwizard
9 3 (2.04%) Micronaut
9 3 (2.04%) pytest
10 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.36%) Flutter
10 2 (1.36%) Kafka
11 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.12%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.12%) Legacy Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.44%) Reinsurance
3 7 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.08%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.40%) Mobile Payment
6 4 (2.72%) Blog
7 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.04%) CMDB
7 3 (2.04%) Market Risk
7 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.36%) AS400
8 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.36%) iSeries
8 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.16%) Windows
2 2 (1.36%) Android
2 2 (1.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (49.66%) Test Automation
2 65 (44.22%) Software Engineering
3 49 (33.33%) Agile
4 42 (28.57%) AI
4 42 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 40 (27.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (24.49%) DevOps
7 35 (23.81%) Code Quality
8 32 (21.77%) SDET
9 23 (15.65%) Decision-Making
9 23 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 21 (14.29%) SDLC
11 20 (13.61%) Analytics
12 19 (12.93%) Microservices
12 19 (12.93%) Regression Testing
13 17 (11.56%) Machine Learning
13 17 (11.56%) Test Strategy
14 16 (10.88%) Data Science
15 13 (8.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.73%) Python
2 24 (16.33%) SQL
3 20 (13.61%) C#
4 17 (11.56%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.84%) C++
6 12 (8.16%) Java
7 10 (6.80%) JavaScript
8 9 (6.12%) Julia
8 9 (6.12%) MATLAB
9 8 (5.44%) R
10 6 (4.08%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.36%) Bash
11 2 (1.36%) RPG
12 1 (0.68%) C
12 1 (0.68%) Clojure
12 1 (0.68%) COBOL
12 1 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (14.97%) Degree
2 15 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.44%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.40%) PhD
6 4 (2.72%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.72%) ISTQB
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 37 (25.17%) QA
2 15 (10.20%) GDPR
3 14 (9.52%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.08%) Software Quality Assurance
5 4 (2.72%) WCAG
6 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.36%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.44%) Grafana
2 5 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.04%) Ansible
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.04%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.44%) Splunk
3 5 (3.40%) Adobe
3 5 (3.40%) Avid
3 5 (3.40%) Google
3 5 (3.40%) SolarWinds
4 4 (2.72%) Databricks
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%) Ciena