Design for Test Job Trends in the North East

Design for Testability (DFT)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Design for Test skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Design for Test 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.031% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,011 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,076 - -
75th Percentile £73,140 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £68,076 £70,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -2.75% +38.61% -13.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

Design for Test 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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,289 753 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.69% 80.28% 79.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 478 774
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £25,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,250 £47,324
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -6.50% -5.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £93,634 £74,481 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Design for Test
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Design for Test relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Design for Test job vacancy trend in the North East

Design for Test
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Design for Test.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Design for Test

Design for Test
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design for Test within the North East region over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £68,076 - 3
Design for Test
England

Design for Test
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility