Test Engineer Jobs in London

Test Engineer
England > London

The median Test Engineer salary in London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 432 577
Rank change year-on-year -19 +145 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 26 127 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.49% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 16 105 292
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile - £46,250 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66,096 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £69,375 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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
West London -11 6 £50,000 +6.38% 2
Central London +23 2 £67,500 +5.88%
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 19 (73.08%) Test Automation
2 14 (53.85%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) Python
3 9 (34.62%) Selenium
3 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 8 (30.77%) DevOps
5 7 (26.92%) JIRA
5 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
5 7 (26.92%) Playwright
6 6 (23.08%) Java
6 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 6 (23.08%) Test Strategy
6 6 (23.08%) GitHub
7 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (19.23%) AWS
7 5 (19.23%) API Testing
7 5 (19.23%) QA
7 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (19.23%) REST Assured
8 4 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
8 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
8 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
8 4 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (15.38%) ISEB
8 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
8 4 (15.38%) ISEB Practitioner
8 4 (15.38%) ISTQB
8 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (15.38%) Datadog
8 4 (15.38%) BDD

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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) GitHub
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (15.38%) Datadog
4 3 (11.54%) Azure
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.85%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Sentry
6 1 (3.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) 3G
1 1 (3.85%) 3GPP
1 1 (3.85%) 4G
1 1 (3.85%) 5G
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
1 1 (3.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Selenium
2 7 (26.92%) JIRA
3 5 (19.23%) REST Assured
4 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
5 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
5 3 (11.54%) GitLab
5 3 (11.54%) JMeter
6 2 (7.69%) Gatling
6 2 (7.69%) Git
6 2 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (3.85%) LabVIEW
7 1 (3.85%) mountebank
7 1 (3.85%) Postman
7 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.85%) Subversion
7 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Electronics
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Retail
2 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Playwright
2 3 (11.54%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) pytest
4 1 (3.85%) .NET
4 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.85%) SOAP
4 1 (3.85%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (3.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) iPhone
1 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.85%) Smartphone
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Test Automation
2 14 (53.85%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 8 (30.77%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
5 6 (23.08%) Test Strategy
6 5 (19.23%) API Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (15.38%) BDD
7 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
8 3 (11.54%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Performance Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
9 2 (7.69%) Agile Testing
9 2 (7.69%) Build Automation
9 2 (7.69%) Open Source
9 2 (7.69%) TDD
9 2 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 6 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) ISEB
1 4 (15.38%) ISEB Practitioner
1 4 (15.38%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Apple
1 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (3.85%) Google
1 1 (3.85%) New Relic
1 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
1 1 (3.85%) SAP