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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 233 248
Rank change year-on-year -49 +15 -113
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 142 168 302
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 1.32% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.38% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 107 126 254
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,250 £41,625
25th Percentile £46,939 £51,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £91,875 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%

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 16,533 12,202 21,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.62% 96.03% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,902 7,442 16,092
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,788
Median % change year-on-year - +5.95% -5.62%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -9 24 £105,000 +55.56% 5
West London -20 13 £30,000 -
East London - 2 £30,000 - 4
South London +10 1 - - 1
North London -2 1 £45,000 -35.71% 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 5 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) Apache
2 1 (0.70%) CMS
2 1 (0.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.70%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (3.52%) AutoCAD
1 5 (3.52%) DaVinci Resolve
1 5 (3.52%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.70%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.70%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 46 (32.39%) AWS
2 37 (26.06%) Azure
3 19 (13.38%) GCP
4 9 (6.34%) BrowserStack
5 8 (5.63%) GitHub
6 7 (4.93%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (4.93%) Serverless
7 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.11%) SaaS
11 2 (1.41%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.41%) Tricentis Tosca
12 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.70%) BlazeMeter
12 1 (0.70%) Datadog
12 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) SNMP
2 2 (1.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (3.52%) Spark SQL
1 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.82%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.41%) Power BI
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) Selenium
2 10 (7.04%) JIRA
3 8 (5.63%) SpecFlow
3 8 (5.63%) WebDriver
4 7 (4.93%) Claude Code
5 6 (4.23%) TestRail
6 5 (3.52%) Postman
7 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.82%) Git
7 4 (2.82%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.82%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.11%) JBehave
8 3 (2.11%) JUnit
9 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.41%) TestNG
10 1 (0.70%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.70%) Subversion
10 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 37 (26.06%) Finance
3 15 (10.56%) Law
4 14 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.45%) Banking
6 6 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Games
7 3 (2.11%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.11%) Publishing
7 3 (2.11%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.41%) Back Office
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
8 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Local Government
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (21.83%) Senior
2 30 (21.13%) Software Engineer
3 27 (19.01%) Development Engineer
3 27 (19.01%) Software Development Engineer
4 22 (15.49%) Test Development Engineer
4 22 (15.49%) Tester
5 16 (11.27%) Lead
6 13 (9.15%) Developer
7 12 (8.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 12 (8.45%) Software Tester
8 11 (7.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Development Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Software Development Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Software Developer
10 8 (5.63%) Test Manager
11 7 (4.93%) Consultant
11 7 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) QA Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.20%) .NET
2 20 (14.08%) React
3 16 (11.27%) Node.js
4 10 (7.04%) Playwright
5 8 (5.63%) REST
6 5 (3.52%) JSON
6 5 (3.52%) PySpark
6 5 (3.52%) React Native
6 5 (3.52%) XML
7 4 (2.82%) Swagger
8 3 (2.11%) RESTful
9 2 (1.41%) HTML
9 2 (1.41%) SOAP
9 2 (1.41%) Spring
10 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.70%) Middleware
10 1 (0.70%) OpenGL
10 1 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.52%) Mobile Payment
2 5 (3.52%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.82%) Blog
4 3 (2.11%) AS400
4 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.11%) iSeries
4 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.41%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.70%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.70%) LPAR
6 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.23%) Windows
2 2 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (53.52%) Test Automation
2 47 (33.10%) Agile
3 41 (28.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (26.76%) CI/CD
5 31 (21.83%) Software Engineering
6 29 (20.42%) AI
6 29 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (20.42%) Software Delivery
7 27 (19.01%) SDET
8 24 (16.90%) DevOps
9 23 (16.20%) Computer Science
10 20 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (12.68%) Manual Testing
11 18 (12.68%) Microservices
11 18 (12.68%) Non-Functional Testing
11 18 (12.68%) Scrum
12 16 (11.27%) Fintech
13 15 (10.56%) Code Quality
13 15 (10.56%) E-Commerce
13 15 (10.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.13%) TypeScript
2 28 (19.72%) Java
2 28 (19.72%) JavaScript
2 28 (19.72%) Python
3 21 (14.79%) SQL
4 15 (10.56%) C#
5 4 (2.82%) C++
6 3 (2.11%) COBOL
7 2 (1.41%) Bash
7 2 (1.41%) Go
7 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.41%) RPG
8 1 (0.70%) C
8 1 (0.70%) Perl
8 1 (0.70%) Rust
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (28.17%) Degree
2 18 (12.68%) ISTQB
3 15 (10.56%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.93%) PhD
6 6 (4.23%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.82%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (2.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.11%) PMP
9 1 (0.70%) CIPD
9 1 (0.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (30.28%) QA
2 17 (11.97%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.45%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.41%) PMO
5 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.11%) Terraform
2 1 (0.70%) Ansible
2 1 (0.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.52%) Adobe
2 5 (3.52%) Avid
2 5 (3.52%) SolarWinds
2 5 (3.52%) Splunk
3 2 (1.41%) HP
3 2 (1.41%) IBM
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle
4 1 (0.70%) Civica
4 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.70%) Google
4 1 (0.70%) Misys
4 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.70%) SAP
4 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.70%) Siebel
4 1 (0.70%) VMware