Test Engineer Job Trends in London

Test Engineer
England > London

The median Test Engineer salary in London is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 413 425
Rank change year-on-year +84 +12 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 42 22 25
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31 12 16
10th Percentile £40,300 £41,375 £42,125
25th Percentile £49,875 £48,125 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.98% +14.88% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63,625 £67,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,906 14,408 17,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.72% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,555 8,332 13,847
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,060
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Test Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in London

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer 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 +35 2 £77,500 +22.05% 1
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (64.29%) Test Automation
2 14 (33.33%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) Software Testing
4 12 (28.57%) Selenium
5 11 (26.19%) ISTQB
5 11 (26.19%) JIRA
5 11 (26.19%) Python
6 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
6 10 (23.81%) Test Management
7 9 (21.43%) Azure
7 9 (21.43%) Manual Testing
7 9 (21.43%) SQL
7 9 (21.43%) System Testing
7 9 (21.43%) Test Scripting
8 8 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (16.67%) Data Quality
9 7 (16.67%) DevOps
9 7 (16.67%) Java
9 7 (16.67%) Playwright
10 6 (14.29%) AI
10 6 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
10 6 (14.29%) Scrum
11 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (11.90%) ETL
11 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
11 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
11 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
11 5 (11.90%) Power Platform

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) Azure
2 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (4.76%) BlazeMeter
4 2 (4.76%) BrowserStack
4 2 (4.76%) GitHub
4 2 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.38%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.38%) FTP
1 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.38%) SNMP
1 1 (2.38%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (2.38%) SSH
1 1 (2.38%) TACACS
1 1 (2.38%) WAN
1 1 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.52%) Metadata
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Selenium
2 11 (26.19%) JIRA
3 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.52%) Appium
4 4 (9.52%) JMeter
4 4 (9.52%) REST Assured
5 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.14%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.76%) Gatling
6 2 (4.76%) Git
6 2 (4.76%) JUnit
6 2 (4.76%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.76%) Postman
6 2 (4.76%) Subversion
6 2 (4.76%) TestRail
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Banking
3 5 (11.90%) Social Housing
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Automotive
7 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Playwright
2 4 (9.52%) pytest
3 3 (7.14%) .NET
3 3 (7.14%) ADO
3 3 (7.14%) JSON
3 3 (7.14%) REST
3 3 (7.14%) XML
4 2 (4.76%) Kafka
4 2 (4.76%) Swagger
4 2 (4.76%) YAML
5 1 (2.38%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.38%) SOAP
5 1 (2.38%) Spring
5 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
1 4 (9.52%) Reference Data
2 2 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Test Automation
2 14 (33.33%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) Software Testing
4 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.81%) Test Management
5 9 (21.43%) Manual Testing
5 9 (21.43%) System Testing
5 9 (21.43%) Test Scripting
6 8 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (16.67%) DevOps
8 6 (14.29%) AI
8 6 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
8 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.29%) Scrum
9 5 (11.90%) ETL
10 4 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (9.52%) Functional Testing
10 4 (9.52%) Migration
10 4 (9.52%) OO
10 4 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 7 (16.67%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.76%) C#
6 2 (4.76%) Scala
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) ISEB
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 2 (4.76%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco
3 1 (2.38%) Meraki
3 1 (2.38%) Pega