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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 258 253
Rank change year-on-year -53 -5 -25
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 136 134 220
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.52% 1.15% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.23% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 69 88 131
10th Percentile £46,801 £47,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £54,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -0.78% -0.77%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £82,250
90th Percentile £136,250 £120,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% -3.51%

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 21,008 10,938 16,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.64% 93.82% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,747 6,944 9,686
10th Percentile £40,829 £37,500 £41,336
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 0 19 £97,500 +21.88% 27
South London +2 5 £69,501 +131.67% 3
North London 0 2 £62,500 +119.30%
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 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.74%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.74%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.00%) Azure
2 29 (21.32%) AWS
3 14 (10.29%) GCP
4 13 (9.56%) Serverless
5 9 (6.62%) SaaS
6 8 (5.88%) GitHub
7 5 (3.68%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.21%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.21%) Datadog
9 3 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.47%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.47%) PaaS
10 2 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.74%) BGP
2 1 (0.74%) DHCP
2 1 (0.74%) DNS
2 1 (0.74%) IPv4
2 1 (0.74%) IPv6
2 1 (0.74%) MPLS
2 1 (0.74%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (4.41%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.21%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.47%) Chroma
6 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.47%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.47%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.74%) Big Data
7 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Git
1 11 (8.09%) Selenium
2 9 (6.62%) JIRA
3 7 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.15%) Postman
4 6 (4.41%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.68%) Gatling
6 4 (2.94%) GitLab
7 3 (2.21%) Claude Code
7 3 (2.21%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.21%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.47%) JMeter
8 2 (1.47%) JUnit
8 2 (1.47%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.47%) TestNG
8 2 (1.47%) TestRail
8 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.74%) fastlane
9 1 (0.74%) Maven
9 1 (0.74%) Xcode
General
1 52 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 33 (24.26%) Finance
3 27 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (5.88%) Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Law
7 5 (3.68%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.68%) Publishing
8 4 (2.94%) Front Office
8 4 (2.94%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.94%) Retail
8 4 (2.94%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.21%) Back Office
9 3 (2.21%) Legal
9 3 (2.21%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Legal Technology
10 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) German Language
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (34.56%) Senior
2 35 (25.74%) Developer
3 32 (23.53%) Software Engineer
4 24 (17.65%) Lead
4 24 (17.65%) Software Developer
5 19 (13.97%) Developer in Test
6 18 (13.24%) Consultant
6 18 (13.24%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (11.03%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.82%) Test Leader
9 11 (8.09%) Senior Software Developer
9 11 (8.09%) Test Consultant
10 10 (7.35%) Lead Software Engineer
10 10 (7.35%) Python Developer
10 10 (7.35%) Software Consultant
11 8 (5.88%) Principal Consultant
11 8 (5.88%) QA Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Lead Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Lead Software Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.97%) React
2 14 (10.29%) .NET
3 13 (9.56%) Terraform
4 12 (8.82%) Playwright
5 10 (7.35%) RESTful
6 9 (6.62%) REST
7 6 (4.41%) JSON
8 5 (3.68%) React Native
8 5 (3.68%) Swagger
9 4 (2.94%) PySpark
10 3 (2.21%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.21%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.21%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.21%) Dropwizard
10 3 (2.21%) Flutter
10 3 (2.21%) Micronaut
10 3 (2.21%) pytest
11 2 (1.47%) FastAPI
11 2 (1.47%) LangChain
11 2 (1.47%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.82%) AI Agents
2 12 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.62%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (5.88%) Reinsurance
5 7 (5.15%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.15%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.94%) Blog
8 3 (2.21%) CMDB
8 3 (2.21%) Market Risk
8 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.47%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.47%) PKI
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Windows
2 3 (2.21%) Android
3 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.74%) Test Automation
2 66 (48.53%) Software Engineering
3 54 (39.71%) CI/CD
4 52 (38.24%) Agile
5 41 (30.15%) AI
6 39 (28.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (26.47%) DevOps
8 34 (25.00%) Code Quality
9 31 (22.79%) SDET
10 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (16.18%) Decision-Making
11 22 (16.18%) SDLC
12 20 (14.71%) Mentoring
12 20 (14.71%) Regression Testing
13 19 (13.97%) Validation
14 16 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (11.76%) Test Strategy
15 15 (11.03%) Data Science
16 14 (10.29%) Microservices
16 14 (10.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 53 (38.97%) Python
2 26 (19.12%) SQL
3 23 (16.91%) C#
4 20 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.29%) Java
6 13 (9.56%) C++
7 9 (6.62%) Julia
7 9 (6.62%) MATLAB
8 8 (5.88%) R
9 6 (4.41%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.94%) Go
10 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.47%) Bash
11 2 (1.47%) Clojure
12 1 (0.74%) C
12 1 (0.74%) COBOL
12 1 (0.74%) RPG
Qualifications
1 17 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.56%) Degree
3 10 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.41%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.21%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.47%) MCSA
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.32%) QA
2 15 (11.03%) GDPR
3 9 (6.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.94%) WCAG
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (8.82%) Docker
2 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.88%) Grafana
3 3 (2.21%) Ansible
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.21%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (2.21%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.47%) Kibana
5 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.68%) Google
3 4 (2.94%) Databricks
3 4 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.21%) Apple
4 3 (2.21%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.21%) Splunk
4 3 (2.21%) Symantec
4 3 (2.21%) Tenable
4 3 (2.21%) Veeam
4 3 (2.21%) VMware
5 2 (1.47%) Mistral
5 2 (1.47%) Oracle
5 2 (1.47%) SGI
5 2 (1.47%) Workday
6 1 (0.74%) Arista
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco
6 1 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.74%) Misys