Software Testing Jobs in the Midlands

Software Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 27 102
Rank change year-on-year -138 +75 -27
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 168 742 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.44% 7.75% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 8.02% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 143 142 247
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,300 £30,525
25th Percentile £32,875 £35,000 £34,143
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,125 £56,000 £60,875
90th Percentile £63,750 £74,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,604 9,247 10,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.43% 96.63% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,106 4,623 6,968
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £38,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,450 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the Midlands

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in the Midlands

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the Midlands

Software 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 Software Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 Midlands -100 126 £45,000 -5.26% 40
East Midlands -109 42 £49,329 +17.45% 27
Software Testing
England

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.74%) IIS
2 4 (2.38%) Confluence
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.19%) WinCC
5 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Simulink
3 1 (0.60%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.19%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (26.19%) Azure
2 34 (20.24%) AWS
3 14 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.74%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.19%) GitHub
7 2 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.19%) SaaS
8 1 (0.60%) PaaS
8 1 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.74%) WAN
2 5 (2.98%) FlexRay
3 4 (2.38%) Modbus
3 4 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.79%) Firewall
5 2 (1.19%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.19%) HTTP
5 2 (1.19%) Internet
5 2 (1.19%) Profibus
6 1 (0.60%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.45%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.74%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.98%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.38%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (1.19%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (13.69%) JIRA
2 13 (7.74%) Postman
3 12 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.76%) SoapUI
5 7 (4.17%) LabVIEW
6 6 (3.57%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.98%) MSTest
8 4 (2.38%) Git
9 3 (1.79%) Appium
9 3 (1.79%) Gatling
9 3 (1.79%) JBehave
9 3 (1.79%) JMeter
9 3 (1.79%) JUnit
9 3 (1.79%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.19%) Android Studio
10 2 (1.19%) GitLab
10 2 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.60%) Selenium
11 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (19.05%) Finance
4 18 (10.71%) Automotive
5 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 14 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 13 (7.74%) Electronics
7 13 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.36%) Banking
9 8 (4.76%) Marketing
9 8 (4.76%) Retail
10 6 (3.57%) Law
10 6 (3.57%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.38%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.79%) Games
13 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Legal
14 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (16.67%) Senior
2 23 (13.69%) Developer
3 20 (11.90%) Software Engineer
3 20 (11.90%) Systems Engineer
4 16 (9.52%) Tester
5 15 (8.93%) Test Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) Analyst
6 12 (7.14%) QA Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 10 (5.95%) Development Manager
7 10 (5.95%) Embedded Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) Software Tester
10 6 (3.57%) IT Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Test Manager
11 5 (2.98%) Full Stack Developer
11 5 (2.98%) Junior
11 5 (2.98%) QA Tester
11 5 (2.98%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.50%) .NET
2 13 (7.74%) REST
3 9 (5.36%) HTML
3 9 (5.36%) SOAP
3 9 (5.36%) Spring
3 9 (5.36%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.17%) React
4 7 (4.17%) WinForms
5 6 (3.57%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.98%) CSS
6 5 (2.98%) JSON
6 5 (2.98%) Web Services
6 5 (2.98%) XML
7 3 (1.79%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.19%) CSS3
8 2 (1.19%) KnockoutJS
8 2 (1.19%) Node.js
8 2 (1.19%) SignalR
8 2 (1.19%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.64%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 13 (7.74%) Clustering
4 13 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.74%) Public Cloud
5 10 (5.95%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.98%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.98%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.38%) Device Driver
9 2 (1.19%) Arduino
9 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.19%) Mobile Computing
9 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.19%) SCADA
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.60%) Genomics
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.55%) Windows
2 10 (5.95%) Linux
3 5 (2.98%) Unix
4 4 (2.38%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.19%) Android
7 1 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (44.64%) Agile
2 73 (43.45%) Test Automation
3 58 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (24.40%) Test Strategy
5 39 (23.21%) Functional Testing
6 33 (19.64%) Software Engineering
7 32 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 31 (18.45%) DevOps
9 30 (17.86%) SDLC
10 29 (17.26%) CI/CD
10 29 (17.26%) Scrum
11 28 (16.67%) Test Scripting
12 24 (14.29%) TDD
13 22 (13.10%) Non-Functional Testing
13 22 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (11.90%) Computer Science
14 20 (11.90%) Regression Testing
15 19 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (11.31%) Security Testing
16 17 (10.12%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (26.79%) SQL
2 32 (19.05%) Java
3 28 (16.67%) C#
4 22 (13.10%) C
5 15 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.33%) Python
7 8 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 7 (4.17%) VB.NET
9 6 (3.57%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.98%) C++
11 4 (2.38%) MATLAB
11 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.79%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.79%) Ruby
13 2 (1.19%) Bash
13 2 (1.19%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.60%) Lua
14 1 (0.60%) PHP
14 1 (0.60%) R
14 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (22.02%) Degree
2 16 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.95%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.38%) IIBA
6 3 (1.79%) CSPO
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) CBAP
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.81%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.38%) WCAG
3 3 (1.79%) ISO 26262
3 3 (1.79%) MISRA
4 1 (0.60%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (0.60%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.60%) IFRS
4 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.60%) JTAG
4 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (7.74%) VMware NSX
2 8 (4.76%) Firmware
3 7 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (2.98%) Docker
5 3 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
2 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.90%) VMware
3 6 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (3.57%) SAP
4 4 (2.38%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.38%) Citrix
4 4 (2.38%) InterSystems
4 4 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.19%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.19%) Siemens
7 1 (0.60%) F5
7 1 (0.60%) Google
7 1 (0.60%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.60%) Splunk
7 1 (0.60%) YouTube