Software Testing Jobs in the North East

Software Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 96 94
Rank change year-on-year +34 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 6 20 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.70% 1.04% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.22% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 9
10th Percentile £33,200 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -1.79% +6.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,741 £58,750
90th Percentile £89,000 - £58,800
England median annual salary £57,560 £51,020 £55,500
% change year-on-year +12.82% -8.07% +0.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,646 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 84.27% 85.60% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 373 1,333 600
10th Percentile £24,606 £27,898 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,711
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.44% +12.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £75,750 £72,500
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 North East

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the North East

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the North East.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the North East

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the North East

Software Testing
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 Software Testing within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +37 5 £40,000 -29.18% 29
Durham +12 1 - - 7
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Software Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Product Management
5 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
5 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) System Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) SLA