Test Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Test Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Test Engineer salary in the Midlands is £34,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 264 241
Rank change year-on-year +182 -23 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 232 58 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.41% 0.46% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.71% 0.49% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 26
10th Percentile - £35,000 £36,875
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £50,375 £48,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £60,741 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,261 11,918 8,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.53% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 8,778 4,580
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,930 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the Midlands

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the Midlands

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the Midlands

Test Engineer
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 Test Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
East Midlands +158 221 £33,000 -12.00% 49
West Midlands +28 11 £60,000 +41.18% 80
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Test Engineer 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 Midlands region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 221 (95.26%) Degree
2 196 (84.48%) Mentoring
2 196 (84.48%) Coaching
3 180 (77.59%) Test Strategy
4 179 (77.16%) LTE
4 179 (77.16%) HND
4 179 (77.16%) Bluetooth
4 179 (77.16%) GSM
4 179 (77.16%) UMTS
4 179 (77.16%) Wi-Fi
4 179 (77.16%) Wireless
4 179 (77.16%) Electronics
4 179 (77.16%) Validation
4 179 (77.16%) Driving Licence
4 179 (77.16%) 5G
4 179 (77.16%) Customer Requirements
4 179 (77.16%) Verification and Validation
5 41 (17.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (11.21%) Safety Engineering
6 26 (11.21%) Microsoft Office
6 26 (11.21%) Microsoft
6 26 (11.21%) Manufacturing
7 19 (8.19%) Test Management
8 18 (7.76%) Social Skills
8 18 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (7.33%) QA
10 16 (6.90%) Test Automation
10 16 (6.90%) Python
10 16 (6.90%) JavaScript
11 15 (6.47%) Windows

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 (0.86%) MTS
2 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (11.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 179 (77.16%) 5G
1 179 (77.16%) Bluetooth
1 179 (77.16%) GSM
1 179 (77.16%) LTE
1 179 (77.16%) UMTS
1 179 (77.16%) Wi-Fi
1 179 (77.16%) Wireless
2 15 (6.47%) TCP/IP
2 15 (6.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (6.47%) Cucumber
1 15 (6.47%) Robot Framework
2 6 (2.59%) JIRA
3 1 (0.43%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.43%) Postman
3 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 179 (77.16%) Electronics
2 41 (17.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (11.21%) Manufacturing
4 18 (7.76%) Social Skills
5 15 (6.47%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.43%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 179 (77.16%) Driving Licence
2 15 (6.47%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (1.72%) SCADA
4 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.47%) Linux
1 15 (6.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (84.48%) Coaching
1 196 (84.48%) Mentoring
2 180 (77.59%) Test Strategy
3 179 (77.16%) Customer Requirements
3 179 (77.16%) Validation
3 179 (77.16%) Verification and Validation
4 26 (11.21%) Safety Engineering
5 19 (8.19%) Test Management
6 18 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (6.90%) Test Automation
8 15 (6.47%) DevOps
8 15 (6.47%) System Testing
9 5 (2.16%) Defect Management
9 5 (2.16%) Scrum
9 5 (2.16%) System Integration Testing
10 4 (1.72%) Agile
10 4 (1.72%) Network Monitoring
10 4 (1.72%) User Stories
11 3 (1.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 3 (1.29%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.90%) JavaScript
1 16 (6.90%) Python
2 15 (6.47%) Bash
2 15 (6.47%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.43%) Java
3 1 (0.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 221 (95.26%) Degree
2 179 (77.16%) HND
3 3 (1.29%) HNC
4 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.33%) QA
2 3 (1.29%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 4 (1.72%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 26 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.72%) HP
2 4 (1.72%) MuleSoft
2 4 (1.72%) Oracle