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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 228 257
Rank change year-on-year -29 +29 -109
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 155 170 278
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 1.40% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.46% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 106 117 228
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £39,375
25th Percentile £46,939 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -5.45% +1.85%
75th Percentile £94,688 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £137,500 £98,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,510
% change year-on-year - +8.89% -8.16%

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 17,128 11,660 21,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.65% 96.06% 90.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,557 6,980 15,899
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,725 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -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 June 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 June 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 23 £90,000 +28.57% 7
West London - 13 £30,000 - 1
East London - 2 £30,000 - 2
North London +4 1 £45,000 -35.71% 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 5 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.29%) CMS
2 2 (1.29%) Confluence
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.29%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.23%) AutoCAD
2 5 (3.23%) DaVinci Resolve
2 5 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.65%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.81%) AWS
2 38 (24.52%) Azure
3 18 (11.61%) GCP
4 10 (6.45%) Serverless
5 9 (5.81%) BrowserStack
6 8 (5.16%) GitHub
7 7 (4.52%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (4.52%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.58%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.94%) SaaS
12 2 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.29%) PaaS
12 2 (1.29%) Tricentis Tosca
13 1 (0.65%) BlazeMeter
13 1 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.65%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) SNMP
2 2 (1.29%) Broadband
3 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (4.52%) Spark SQL
2 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.58%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.65%) Big Data
5 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Selenium
2 10 (6.45%) JIRA
3 9 (5.81%) Git
4 8 (5.16%) SpecFlow
4 8 (5.16%) WebDriver
5 7 (4.52%) Claude Code
6 5 (3.23%) TestRail
7 4 (2.58%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.94%) JUnit
8 3 (1.94%) Postman
8 3 (1.94%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.29%) GitLab
9 2 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.29%) TestNG
10 1 (0.65%) CocoaPods
10 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.65%) fastlane
10 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.16%) Finance
3 20 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.68%) Law
5 13 (8.39%) Banking
6 12 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.23%) Publishing
9 4 (2.58%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.58%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.94%) Retail
11 2 (1.29%) Back Office
11 2 (1.29%) Games
11 2 (1.29%) Legal
11 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Electronics
12 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.65%) Front Office
12 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (25.16%) Senior
2 33 (21.29%) Software Engineer
3 24 (15.48%) Development Engineer
3 24 (15.48%) Software Development Engineer
4 21 (13.55%) Tester
5 19 (12.26%) Developer
5 19 (12.26%) Test Development Engineer
6 12 (7.74%) Software Tester
7 11 (7.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 11 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) Lead
8 10 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.81%) Consultant
9 9 (5.81%) Principal Consultant
9 9 (5.81%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.16%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Test Manager
11 7 (4.52%) Automation Consultant
11 7 (4.52%) Principal Technical Consultant
11 7 (4.52%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.61%) .NET
2 15 (9.68%) React
3 10 (6.45%) Node.js
4 9 (5.81%) Playwright
5 7 (4.52%) PySpark
5 7 (4.52%) REST
6 6 (3.87%) React Native
7 5 (3.23%) JSON
7 5 (3.23%) Swagger
7 5 (3.23%) XML
8 4 (2.58%) RESTful
9 2 (1.29%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.29%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.29%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (1.29%) HTML
9 2 (1.29%) SOAP
10 1 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.65%) Jest
10 1 (0.65%) Redux
10 1 (0.65%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.81%) Algorithms
2 8 (5.16%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.23%) Mobile Payment
4 5 (3.23%) Reinsurance
5 4 (2.58%) Blog
6 3 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.29%) AS400
7 2 (1.29%) CMDB
7 2 (1.29%) iSeries
7 2 (1.29%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.65%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.16%) Windows
2 2 (1.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (52.90%) Test Automation
2 49 (31.61%) Agile
3 43 (27.74%) Software Engineering
4 42 (27.10%) CI/CD
4 42 (27.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (21.29%) AI
6 28 (18.06%) DevOps
7 26 (16.77%) SDET
8 25 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (15.48%) Code Quality
10 23 (14.84%) Software Delivery
11 18 (11.61%) Analytics
11 18 (11.61%) Computer Science
11 18 (11.61%) Mentoring
11 18 (11.61%) Non-Functional Testing
12 17 (10.97%) Scrum
13 16 (10.32%) Defect Management
13 16 (10.32%) Manual Testing
13 16 (10.32%) Microservices
13 16 (10.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.10%) Python
2 26 (16.77%) TypeScript
3 25 (16.13%) SQL
4 22 (14.19%) Java
4 22 (14.19%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.55%) C#
6 9 (5.81%) C++
7 6 (3.87%) Julia
7 6 (3.87%) MATLAB
8 5 (3.23%) R
9 3 (1.94%) COBOL
10 2 (1.29%) Go
10 2 (1.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.29%) RPG
11 1 (0.65%) Bash
11 1 (0.65%) C
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) Rust
11 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (23.23%) Degree
2 18 (11.61%) Security Cleared
3 17 (10.97%) ISTQB
4 13 (8.39%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.81%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.52%) PhD
7 4 (2.58%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.29%) PMP
9 1 (0.65%) CIPD
9 1 (0.65%) ISEB
9 1 (0.65%) MCSA
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (27.74%) QA
2 19 (12.26%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.74%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (3.87%) GDPR
5 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.29%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.29%) Docker
1 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (1.94%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.94%) Terraform
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.29%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.23%) Adobe
2 5 (3.23%) Avid
2 5 (3.23%) SolarWinds
2 5 (3.23%) Splunk
3 3 (1.94%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.94%) VMware
4 2 (1.29%) Apple
4 2 (1.29%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.29%) HP
4 2 (1.29%) IBM
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle
4 2 (1.29%) Symantec
4 2 (1.29%) Tenable
4 2 (1.29%) Veeam
4 2 (1.29%) Workday
5 1 (0.65%) Misys
5 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.65%) SAP
5 1 (0.65%) Siebel