Software Testing Jobs in the Midlands

Software Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 153 28
Rank change year-on-year +105 -125 +71
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 346 183 703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.83% 1.52% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 1.86% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 60 137 129
10th Percentile £15,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £60,625 £63,750 £72,000
England median annual salary £57,443 £51,259 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.06% -6.80% +0.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Software 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 6,573 9,828 8,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.67% 81.55% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,637 7,184 4,440
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,975
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,342 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 18 May 2025.

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 18 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 +85 222 £37,500 -16.67% 71
East Midlands +67 124 £47,500 -3.71% 48
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 2 (0.58%) IIS
1 2 (0.58%) WinCC
2 1 (0.29%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 205 (59.25%) Simulink
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (2.89%) SaaS
3 5 (1.45%) Azure
3 5 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (0.87%) GitHub
5 2 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (0.58%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.29%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.29%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.45%) Ethernet
2 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.58%) 5G
3 2 (0.58%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.58%) LTE
3 2 (0.58%) Profibus
3 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.31%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.87%) MySQL
3 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (0.58%) Power BI
3 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (3.47%) Selenium
2 11 (3.18%) Postman
3 6 (1.73%) WebDriver
4 4 (1.16%) Appium
4 4 (1.16%) JIRA
5 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.87%) JMeter
5 3 (0.87%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.87%) Subversion
6 2 (0.58%) Git
6 2 (0.58%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.58%) NUnit
6 2 (0.58%) TestComplete
6 2 (0.58%) TortoiseSVN
7 1 (0.29%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 206 (59.54%) Automotive
2 205 (59.25%) Aerospace
3 37 (10.69%) Social Skills
4 11 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.89%) Finance
6 6 (1.73%) Law
7 5 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.87%) Electronics
8 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.58%) Retail
10 1 (0.29%) Advertising
10 1 (0.29%) Banking
10 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Games
10 1 (0.29%) Marketing
10 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (38.73%) Principal Engineer
2 109 (31.50%) Software Engineer
3 102 (29.48%) Systems Engineer
4 99 (28.61%) Development Engineer
4 99 (28.61%) Software Development Engineer
5 63 (18.21%) Principal Software Engineer
5 63 (18.21%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 44 (12.72%) Senior
7 39 (11.27%) Senior Software Engineer
8 36 (10.40%) Senior Development Engineer
8 36 (10.40%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 36 (10.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 13 (3.76%) IT Support
10 12 (3.47%) Analyst
10 12 (3.47%) Tester
11 7 (2.02%) Software Tester
11 7 (2.02%) Test Analyst
12 6 (1.73%) Developer
12 6 (1.73%) Software Developer
13 5 (1.45%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.31%) .NET
1 8 (2.31%) Playwright
2 5 (1.45%) WPF
3 4 (1.16%) REST
3 4 (1.16%) XML
4 3 (0.87%) .NET Core
4 3 (0.87%) ASP.NET
4 3 (0.87%) Django
4 3 (0.87%) WCF
5 2 (0.58%) RESTful
5 2 (0.58%) SOAP
5 2 (0.58%) Swagger
6 1 (0.29%) LDAP
6 1 (0.29%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.76%) EPoS
2 12 (3.47%) Product Ownership
3 6 (1.73%) Driving Licence
4 5 (1.45%) SCADA
5 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
6 3 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.87%) Robotics
7 2 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.58%) IoT
7 2 (0.58%) NB-IoT
7 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.29%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.29%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.29%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.29%) PKI
8 1 (0.29%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.02%) Windows
2 2 (0.58%) Linux
2 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.29%) Android
3 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (85.26%) Agile
2 206 (59.54%) Validation
3 204 (58.96%) Systems Engineering
4 190 (54.91%) Software Engineering
5 84 (24.28%) SDLC
6 71 (20.52%) Waterfall
7 27 (7.80%) Test Automation
8 23 (6.65%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (5.49%) Mathematics
10 16 (4.62%) Customer Service
11 15 (4.34%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (3.47%) Test Scripting
13 11 (3.18%) API Testing
13 11 (3.18%) CI/CD
13 11 (3.18%) Scrum
14 8 (2.31%) DevOps
14 8 (2.31%) Manual Testing
14 8 (2.31%) Regression Testing
15 7 (2.02%) Computer Science
15 7 (2.02%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 205 (59.25%) MATLAB
2 21 (6.07%) C#
3 13 (3.76%) SQL
4 12 (3.47%) Python
5 6 (1.73%) Java
6 4 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.16%) Rust
7 3 (0.87%) Bash
7 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.58%) C++
8 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.58%) XAML
9 1 (0.29%) Ada
9 1 (0.29%) C
9 1 (0.29%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.29%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.29%) Perl
9 1 (0.29%) Ruby
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 275 (79.48%) BPSS Clearance
2 88 (25.43%) Degree
3 6 (1.73%) ISTQB
3 6 (1.73%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (0.58%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.29%) ISEB
5 1 (0.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.23%) QA
2 3 (0.87%) PMBOK
3 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.29%) JTAG
4 1 (0.29%) MISRA
System Software
1 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (0.58%) vSphere
2 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.58%) Ansible
1 2 (0.58%) Puppet
1 2 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (21.39%) Siemens
2 7 (2.02%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle
3 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.58%) Rockwell
4 2 (0.58%) VMware
5 1 (0.29%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.29%) AVEVA
5 1 (0.29%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.29%) SAP
5 1 (0.29%) UiPath