Exploratory Testing Jobs in the Midlands

Exploratory Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 310 322
Rank change year-on-year +64 +12 +33
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 5 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.071% 0.009% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.010% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +2.94% -25.27%
75th Percentile £44,063 £37,500 £37,500
90th Percentile £44,625 - -
England median annual salary £37,500 £46,250 £56,549
% change year-on-year -18.92% -18.21% +2.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Exploratory 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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,397 9,656 9,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.31% 82.42% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 7,129 4,625
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,438 £34,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,475 £75,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the Midlands

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in the Midlands

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
West Midlands +57 4 £42,500 +21.43% 4
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 3
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Appium
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) TestComplete
General
1 3 (60.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Tester
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Playwright
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) Functional Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Management
3 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 3 (60.00%) B2B
3 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Customer Insight
5 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) UiPath