System Testing Job Trends in London

System Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring System Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 416 412
Rank change year-on-year +88 -4 +160
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 43 19 38
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 25 14 35
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.57% +6.25% -12.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,688 £78,125
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

System 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 12,403 14,702 16,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.67% 94.61% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,935 8,102 13,389
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing System Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

System Testing job vacancy trend in London

System Testing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing System Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing System Testing

System Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for System Testing in London

System 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 System Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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 +42 5 £80,000 +18.52% 6
South London +39 2 £58,000 +9.95% 1
System Testing
England

System 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:

Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (25.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Infor SunSystems
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (4.65%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (4.65%) SAP PP
1 2 (4.65%) SAP QM
1 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.33%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) GitHub
2 6 (13.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 6 (13.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (9.30%) SaaS
5 3 (6.98%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (6.98%) AWS
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) Datadog
6 2 (4.65%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.30%) Metadata
3 3 (6.98%) Mixpanel
3 3 (6.98%) Power BI
3 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Tableau
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) JIRA
2 7 (16.28%) Git
3 5 (11.63%) Selenium
4 3 (6.98%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (6.98%) Charles Proxy
4 3 (6.98%) Fiddler
4 3 (6.98%) Maven
4 3 (6.98%) Postman
4 3 (6.98%) TestNG
4 3 (6.98%) WebDriver
4 3 (6.98%) Zephyr
5 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.65%) JMeter
5 2 (4.65%) LoadRunner
5 2 (4.65%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.65%) Subversion
5 2 (4.65%) TestRail
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Marketing
4 6 (13.95%) Banking
5 5 (11.63%) Law
6 3 (6.98%) Electronics
6 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.65%) General Ledger
7 2 (4.65%) Legal
8 1 (2.33%) International Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Analyst
1 9 (20.93%) Senior
1 9 (20.93%) Test Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Salesforce Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Senior Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Lead
4 5 (11.63%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Head of Analysis
5 4 (9.30%) Head of Business Analysis
6 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Quality Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) REST
2 6 (13.95%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (13.95%) SOAP
3 3 (6.98%) ADO
3 3 (6.98%) JSON
3 3 (6.98%) XML
4 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.65%) Playwright
4 2 (4.65%) Swagger
4 2 (4.65%) WPF
5 1 (2.33%) Altair
5 1 (2.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.95%) Reference Data
3 4 (9.30%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (6.98%) W3C
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (32.56%) Business Strategy
2 14 (32.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.91%) Agile
4 12 (27.91%) SDLC
4 12 (27.91%) Test Management
5 11 (25.58%) Customer Service
6 10 (23.26%) Project Delivery
7 9 (20.93%) Asset Management
7 9 (20.93%) Change Management
7 9 (20.93%) People Management
7 9 (20.93%) Software Testing
8 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (18.60%) Migration
8 8 (18.60%) Regression Testing
8 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
8 8 (18.60%) Validation
9 7 (16.28%) Decision-Making
10 6 (13.95%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) SQL
2 8 (18.60%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) Apex Code
3 6 (13.95%) SOQL
4 5 (11.63%) C#
4 5 (11.63%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.65%) ACCA
3 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.65%) CBAP
3 2 (4.65%) CIMA
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) QA
2 11 (25.58%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Salesforce
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Adobe
3 3 (6.98%) Tealium
4 2 (4.65%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.65%) Infor
4 2 (4.65%) SAP