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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 27 104
Rank change year-on-year -127 +77 -30
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 167 724 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.43% 7.63% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 7.90% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 141 136 247
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £34,688 £33,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,625 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +1.39% -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,000 £60,375
90th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £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 9,635 9,167 10,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.37% 96.58% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 4,618 6,987
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,834 £38,362 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £61,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,325 £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 5 May 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 5 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
West Midlands -104 124 £45,000 -5.26% 45
East Midlands -111 43 £49,329 +23.32% 30
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 (7.78%) IIS
2 4 (2.40%) Confluence
3 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.20%) WinCC
5 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Simulink
3 1 (0.60%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.20%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.15%) Azure
2 34 (20.36%) AWS
3 13 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.20%) GitHub
7 2 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.20%) SaaS
8 1 (0.60%) PaaS
8 1 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.78%) WAN
2 5 (2.99%) FlexRay
3 4 (2.40%) Modbus
3 4 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.80%) Firewall
5 2 (1.20%) DVB
5 2 (1.20%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.20%) HTTP
5 2 (1.20%) Internet
5 2 (1.20%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.56%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.79%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.99%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.40%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (13.77%) JIRA
2 13 (7.78%) Postman
3 12 (7.19%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.79%) SoapUI
5 7 (4.19%) LabVIEW
6 6 (3.59%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.99%) MSTest
8 4 (2.40%) Git
9 3 (1.80%) Appium
9 3 (1.80%) Gatling
9 3 (1.80%) JBehave
9 3 (1.80%) JMeter
9 3 (1.80%) JUnit
9 3 (1.80%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.20%) Android Studio
10 2 (1.20%) GitLab
10 2 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.60%) CANoe
11 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 46 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.96%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (19.16%) Finance
4 18 (10.78%) Automotive
5 16 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.98%) Manufacturing
7 14 (8.38%) Electronics
8 13 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (5.39%) Banking
9 9 (5.39%) Retail
10 8 (4.79%) Marketing
11 6 (3.59%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.99%) Law
13 4 (2.40%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.80%) Games
15 2 (1.20%) Legal
15 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (16.17%) Senior
2 23 (13.77%) Developer
3 20 (11.98%) Software Engineer
3 20 (11.98%) Systems Engineer
4 15 (8.98%) Tester
5 14 (8.38%) Test Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) Analyst
7 12 (7.19%) QA Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) Software Developer
8 11 (6.59%) Embedded Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) Development Manager
10 9 (5.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) IT Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Software Tester
11 6 (3.59%) Test Manager
12 5 (2.99%) Agile Tester
12 5 (2.99%) Full Stack Developer
12 5 (2.99%) QA Tester
12 5 (2.99%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.98%) .NET
2 13 (7.78%) REST
3 9 (5.39%) HTML
3 9 (5.39%) SOAP
3 9 (5.39%) Spring
3 9 (5.39%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.19%) React
4 7 (4.19%) WinForms
5 6 (3.59%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.99%) CSS
6 5 (2.99%) JSON
6 5 (2.99%) Web Services
6 5 (2.99%) XML
7 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.20%) CSS3
8 2 (1.20%) KnockoutJS
8 2 (1.20%) Node.js
8 2 (1.20%) SignalR
8 2 (1.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.76%) Product Ownership
2 19 (11.38%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (8.38%) Mobile App
4 13 (7.78%) Clustering
4 13 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.78%) Public Cloud
5 10 (5.99%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.59%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.40%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.40%) Device Driver
9 2 (1.20%) Arduino
9 2 (1.20%) FPGA
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile Computing
9 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.20%) SCADA
9 2 (1.20%) VHDL
10 1 (0.60%) FMCG
10 1 (0.60%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.59%) Linux
1 11 (6.59%) Windows
2 5 (2.99%) Unix
3 4 (2.40%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.20%) Android
5 2 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (44.31%) Agile
2 71 (42.51%) Test Automation
3 58 (34.73%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (24.55%) Test Strategy
5 38 (22.75%) Functional Testing
6 33 (19.76%) Software Engineering
7 32 (19.16%) Mentoring
8 30 (17.96%) SDLC
9 29 (17.37%) CI/CD
9 29 (17.37%) DevOps
10 28 (16.77%) Scrum
11 26 (15.57%) Test Scripting
12 23 (13.77%) TDD
13 22 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (12.57%) Computer Science
14 21 (12.57%) Non-Functional Testing
15 19 (11.38%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (11.38%) Regression Testing
15 19 (11.38%) Security Testing
16 17 (10.18%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.75%) SQL
2 32 (19.16%) Java
3 28 (16.77%) C#
4 23 (13.77%) C
5 15 (8.98%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.78%) Python
7 8 (4.79%) T-SQL
8 7 (4.19%) VB.NET
9 6 (3.59%) C++
9 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.40%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.40%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.80%) Ruby
12 2 (1.20%) Bash
12 2 (1.20%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.60%) Lua
13 1 (0.60%) PHP
13 1 (0.60%) R
13 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (23.35%) Degree
2 16 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.38%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.39%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.40%) IIBA
6 3 (1.80%) CSPO
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) CBAP
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (23.35%) QA
2 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.40%) WCAG
3 3 (1.80%) ISO 26262
3 3 (1.80%) 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 (7.78%) VMware NSX
2 9 (5.39%) Firmware
3 7 (4.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (2.99%) Docker
5 3 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
2 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 48 (28.74%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.98%) VMware
3 6 (3.59%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (3.59%) SAP
4 4 (2.40%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.40%) Citrix
4 4 (2.40%) InterSystems
4 4 (2.40%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.20%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.20%) 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