Tester Jobs in London

Tester
England > London

The median Tester salary in London is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 354 367
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +174
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 37 154 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.64% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.68% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 28 129 148
10th Percentile £39,225 £41,250 £42,425
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +12.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £76,563
90th Percentile £75,975 - £91,250
England median annual salary £46,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.43% - +10.53%

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 11,455 22,637 31,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.43% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,909 16,798 22,986
10th Percentile £40,971 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in London

Tester
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Tester in London

Tester
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Tester in London

Tester
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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 +10 4 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 19 (51.35%) Test Automation
2 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 16 (43.24%) Agile
3 14 (37.84%) Penetration Testing
3 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
4 13 (35.14%) Azure
4 13 (35.14%) Security Testing
5 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
6 10 (27.03%) QA
6 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
6 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
6 10 (27.03%) Postman
6 10 (27.03%) API Testing
7 9 (24.32%) DevOps
7 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
7 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (21.62%) Selenium
8 8 (21.62%) Manual Testing
8 8 (21.62%) Software Testing
8 8 (21.62%) ISTQB
8 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (18.92%) Test Management
9 7 (18.92%) Test Scripting
9 7 (18.92%) Test Strategy
9 7 (18.92%) SoapUI
10 6 (16.22%) Finance
10 6 (16.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (16.22%) Test Planning
10 6 (16.22%) SDLC

Tester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) AWS
4 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.41%) IaaS
6 2 (5.41%) PaaS
6 2 (5.41%) SaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.70%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 2 (5.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Power BI
1 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Postman
2 8 (21.62%) Selenium
3 7 (18.92%) SoapUI
4 5 (13.51%) JIRA
5 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
5 4 (10.81%) JMeter
5 4 (10.81%) REST Assured
6 3 (8.11%) Gatling
6 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
6 3 (8.11%) Mocha
6 3 (8.11%) Protractor
6 3 (8.11%) TestRail
7 2 (5.41%) Burp Suite
7 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.41%) GitLab
7 2 (5.41%) JUnit
7 2 (5.41%) Metasploit
8 1 (2.70%) Appium
8 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
8 1 (2.70%) Locust
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 6 (16.22%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Law
5 4 (10.81%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) CSS
1 4 (10.81%) HTML
1 4 (10.81%) Playwright
1 4 (10.81%) REST
2 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.11%) JWT
2 3 (8.11%) OAuth
3 2 (5.41%) JSON
3 2 (5.41%) Kafka
3 2 (5.41%) Node.js
3 2 (5.41%) pytest
3 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (5.41%) SAML
3 2 (5.41%) SOAP
3 2 (5.41%) Swagger
3 2 (5.41%) Web Services
3 2 (5.41%) XML
4 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.70%) NHS
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Android
1 5 (13.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Test Automation
2 16 (43.24%) Agile
3 14 (37.84%) Penetration Testing
4 13 (35.14%) Security Testing
5 10 (27.03%) API Testing
6 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (24.32%) DevOps
7 8 (21.62%) Manual Testing
7 8 (21.62%) Software Testing
8 7 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (18.92%) Test Management
8 7 (18.92%) Test Scripting
8 7 (18.92%) Test Strategy
9 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
9 6 (16.22%) Defect Tracking
9 6 (16.22%) Red Team
9 6 (16.22%) SDLC
9 6 (16.22%) Test Planning
10 5 (13.51%) Application Security
10 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) Java
4 4 (10.81%) Python
5 2 (5.41%) Go
5 2 (5.41%) PHP
5 2 (5.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) ISTQB
3 6 (16.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (16.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 5 (13.51%) CREST Certified
5 4 (10.81%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (5.41%) CCNA
6 2 (5.41%) CCNP
6 2 (5.41%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.41%) Cyber Scheme
6 2 (5.41%) Degree
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.11%) WCAG
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.70%) MiFID
4 1 (2.70%) NCSC
4 1 (2.70%) NIST
4 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.70%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Nessus
3 1 (2.70%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Cisco
1 2 (5.41%) F5
1 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
1 2 (5.41%) Splunk
2 1 (2.70%) Google