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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 232 233
Rank change year-on-year -35 +1 -96
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 137 171 308
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 1.33% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.38% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 105 127 254
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £51,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -10.34% +10.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,641 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.66% +4.08% -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 16,289 12,366 21,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.24% 96.02% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10,694 7,570 16,059
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,591 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.02% +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 26 £120,000 +84.62% 6
West London -16 13 £30,000 -
East London - 2 £30,000 - 5
South London +13 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 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) CMS
3 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.73%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (3.65%) AutoCAD
1 5 (3.65%) DaVinci Resolve
1 5 (3.65%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.73%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.73%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.85%) AWS
2 35 (25.55%) Azure
3 20 (14.60%) GCP
4 9 (6.57%) BrowserStack
5 8 (5.84%) GitHub
6 7 (5.11%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (5.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.92%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.19%) Serverless
10 1 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.73%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.73%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.73%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.73%) SonarCloud
10 1 (0.73%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.65%) SNMP
2 2 (1.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (3.65%) Spark SQL
1 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.19%) Power BI
3 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (10.22%) Selenium
2 10 (7.30%) JIRA
3 8 (5.84%) SpecFlow
3 8 (5.84%) WebDriver
4 7 (5.11%) Claude Code
5 6 (4.38%) Postman
6 5 (3.65%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.65%) SoapUI
6 5 (3.65%) TestRail
7 4 (2.92%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.19%) Git
8 3 (2.19%) JBehave
8 3 (2.19%) JUnit
9 2 (1.46%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.46%) TestNG
10 1 (0.73%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.73%) Subversion
10 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 39 (28.47%) Finance
3 14 (10.22%) Law
4 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.76%) Banking
6 7 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.19%) Games
9 2 (1.46%) Back Office
9 2 (1.46%) Electronics
9 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.46%) Marketing
9 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Retail
10 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.73%) Legal
10 1 (0.73%) Local Government
10 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (22.63%) Software Engineer
2 27 (19.71%) Development Engineer
2 27 (19.71%) Software Development Engineer
3 26 (18.98%) Senior
4 22 (16.06%) Test Development Engineer
4 22 (16.06%) Tester
5 18 (13.14%) Lead
6 14 (10.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 12 (8.76%) Software Tester
8 10 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Developer
10 8 (5.84%) QA Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Senior Development Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Senior Software Development Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Test Manager
11 7 (5.11%) Analyst
11 7 (5.11%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.52%) .NET
2 19 (13.87%) React
3 18 (13.14%) Node.js
4 9 (6.57%) Playwright
5 8 (5.84%) REST
6 5 (3.65%) JSON
6 5 (3.65%) PySpark
6 5 (3.65%) React Native
6 5 (3.65%) XML
7 2 (1.46%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.46%) HTML
7 2 (1.46%) SOAP
7 2 (1.46%) Spring
8 1 (0.73%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.73%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.73%) Kafka
8 1 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.73%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.73%) Swagger
8 1 (0.73%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.65%) Mobile Payment
2 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.19%) AS400
4 3 (2.19%) Blog
4 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.19%) iSeries
5 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.46%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.73%) IoT
6 1 (0.73%) LPAR
6 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.11%) Windows
2 2 (1.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (53.28%) Test Automation
2 48 (35.04%) Agile
3 43 (31.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (27.74%) CI/CD
5 30 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (21.90%) Software Delivery
6 28 (20.44%) Software Engineering
7 27 (19.71%) AI
7 27 (19.71%) SDET
8 26 (18.98%) Computer Science
9 22 (16.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (13.87%) Manual Testing
11 18 (13.14%) DevOps
11 18 (13.14%) Microservices
11 18 (13.14%) Non-Functional Testing
12 16 (11.68%) Defect Management
12 16 (11.68%) Fintech
12 16 (11.68%) User Experience
13 15 (10.95%) Code Quality
13 15 (10.95%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.63%) JavaScript
2 30 (21.90%) Java
2 30 (21.90%) TypeScript
3 25 (18.25%) Python
4 22 (16.06%) SQL
5 14 (10.22%) C#
6 3 (2.19%) C++
6 3 (2.19%) COBOL
7 2 (1.46%) Bash
7 2 (1.46%) Go
7 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.46%) RPG
8 1 (0.73%) Perl
8 1 (0.73%) Rust
8 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (32.12%) Degree
2 20 (14.60%) ISTQB
3 11 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.84%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.11%) PhD
5 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (2.19%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (2.19%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.19%) PMP
8 1 (0.73%) CIPD
8 1 (0.73%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (29.93%) QA
2 17 (12.41%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.76%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.46%) PMO
5 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.73%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (2.19%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.19%) Terraform
2 1 (0.73%) Ansible
2 1 (0.73%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.65%) Adobe
2 5 (3.65%) Avid
2 5 (3.65%) SolarWinds
2 5 (3.65%) Splunk
3 2 (1.46%) HP
3 2 (1.46%) IBM
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle
3 2 (1.46%) SAP
4 1 (0.73%) Civica
4 1 (0.73%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.73%) Google
4 1 (0.73%) Misys
4 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.73%) Siebel
4 1 (0.73%) VMware