Test Engineer Jobs in London

Test Engineer
England > London

The median Test Engineer salary in London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 414 530
Rank change year-on-year -72 +116 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 21 225 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.089% 0.64% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.67% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16 191 294
10th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £46,000 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +16.07%
75th Percentile £70,625 £68,125 £74,686
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,214 33,631 64,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 95.05% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,714 24,683 34,818
10th Percentile £38,110 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024. 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
South London -7 2 £24,000 -47.54%
Central London +25 1 £67,500 -3.57%
West London -11 1 £50,000 +6.38% 6
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) JIRA
4 7 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 6 (28.57%) Software Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Selenium
6 5 (23.81%) Python
6 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (19.05%) Java
7 4 (19.05%) Linux
7 4 (19.05%) Google
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Datadog
7 4 (19.05%) API Testing
7 4 (19.05%) BDD
7 4 (19.05%) GitHub
7 4 (19.05%) User Stories
8 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (14.29%) DevOps
8 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
8 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
8 3 (14.29%) GCP
8 3 (14.29%) CREST Certified
8 3 (14.29%) Playwright
8 3 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
8 3 (14.29%) Test Management
8 3 (14.29%) ISTQB

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Datadog
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) 3G
2 1 (4.76%) 3GPP
2 1 (4.76%) 4G
2 1 (4.76%) 5G
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless
2 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) JIRA
2 5 (23.81%) Selenium
3 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 2 (9.52%) Git
4 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.52%) JMeter
4 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.76%) Appium
5 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (4.76%) GoogleTest
5 1 (4.76%) JUnit
5 1 (4.76%) mountebank
5 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (4.76%) Spock
5 1 (4.76%) Subversion
5 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Playwright
2 2 (9.52%) pytest
2 2 (9.52%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) HTML5
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.76%) iPhone
2 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 4 (19.05%) API Testing
5 4 (19.05%) BDD
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Testing
5 4 (19.05%) User Stories
6 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Regression Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Test Management
6 3 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
7 2 (9.52%) Scrum
7 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) Go
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) C
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) CREST Certified
1 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) ISEB
1 3 (14.29%) ISEB Practitioner
1 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Consul
2 1 (4.76%) Packer
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) YouTube
3 1 (4.76%) Apple
3 1 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce