Test Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Test Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Test Engineer salary in the Midlands is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 248 264
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 59 80 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.50% 0.84% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.94% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 22 29 76
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +20.88% +21.33%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,649 - £61,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 11,029 8,504 10,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 89.59% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8,246 4,760 7,119
10th Percentile £26,125 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 5 May 2024.

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 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 -4 47 £42,500 -22.73% 18
East Midlands -7 12 £40,000 -23.81% 5
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 25 (42.37%) Automotive
2 24 (40.68%) Test Automation
3 17 (28.81%) Agile
4 14 (23.73%) Degree
4 14 (23.73%) Software Testing
5 12 (20.34%) API Testing
6 11 (18.64%) Python
7 10 (16.95%) Electronics
7 10 (16.95%) Test Scripting
7 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.25%) Postman
8 9 (15.25%) DevOps
8 9 (15.25%) Azure
8 9 (15.25%) Test Strategy
8 9 (15.25%) Validation
8 9 (15.25%) C#
8 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
9 8 (13.56%) SQL
9 8 (13.56%) AWS
10 7 (11.86%) SoapUI
10 7 (11.86%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (11.86%) QA
10 7 (11.86%) C
10 7 (11.86%) Systems Engineering
10 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
10 7 (11.86%) Data Acquisition
10 7 (11.86%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (10.17%) Functional Testing
11 6 (10.17%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
11 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps

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 (3.39%) Confluence
1 2 (3.39%) MTS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) Azure
2 8 (13.56%) AWS
3 1 (1.69%) GitHub
3 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.69%) PaaS
3 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) Ethernet
2 4 (6.78%) Bluetooth
2 4 (6.78%) FlexRay
2 4 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (6.78%) Wireless
3 1 (1.69%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) DynamoDB
1 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
1 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Postman
2 7 (11.86%) SoapUI
3 5 (8.47%) JUnit
3 5 (8.47%) MSTest
4 4 (6.78%) Git
5 3 (5.08%) Appium
5 3 (5.08%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.08%) Gatling
5 3 (5.08%) JBehave
5 3 (5.08%) JMeter
5 3 (5.08%) Selenium
5 3 (5.08%) SpecFlow
6 2 (3.39%) JIRA
7 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.69%) GitLab
7 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (42.37%) Automotive
2 10 (16.95%) Electronics
3 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Retail
5 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.39%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) JSON
1 5 (8.47%) REST
1 5 (8.47%) SOAP
1 5 (8.47%) XML
2 1 (1.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) Node.js
2 1 (1.69%) Playwright
2 1 (1.69%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.47%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.78%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (6.78%) IoT
4 2 (3.39%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.69%) Lidar
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Optoelectronics
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) Test Automation
2 17 (28.81%) Agile
3 14 (23.73%) Software Testing
4 12 (20.34%) API Testing
5 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.95%) Test Scripting
6 9 (15.25%) DevOps
6 9 (15.25%) Test Strategy
6 9 (15.25%) Validation
7 7 (11.86%) Data Acquisition
7 7 (11.86%) Non-Functional Testing
7 7 (11.86%) Systems Engineering
8 6 (10.17%) Functional Testing
8 6 (10.17%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 6 (10.17%) Process Improvement
8 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.47%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.47%) Data Analysis
9 5 (8.47%) Scrum
9 5 (8.47%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) Python
2 9 (15.25%) C#
3 8 (13.56%) SQL
4 7 (11.86%) C
5 6 (10.17%) Java
6 5 (8.47%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.08%) MATLAB
7 3 (5.08%) Ruby
8 2 (3.39%) C++
9 1 (1.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Degree
2 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.39%) NVQ Level 3
3 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) COSHH
2 3 (5.08%) ISO 14001
2 3 (5.08%) JTAG
3 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Grafana
1 1 (1.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) EMC
2 3 (5.08%) Lauterbach
3 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.69%) Denodo
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Splunk
4 1 (1.69%) Talend