Exploratory Testing Jobs in the North of England

Exploratory Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 417 422
Rank change year-on-year +28 +5 -80
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 7 13 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.040% 0.076% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.078% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 22
10th Percentile £36,250 - £42,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £37,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £47,500 £44,125 £61,250
90th Percentile - £47,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £56,549 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.42% +2.82% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Exploratory Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,590 16,586 17,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.40% 96.85% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,215 7,937 10,709
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the North of England

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the North of England.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in the North of England

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire +83 5 £45,000 +5.88%
North West +3 2 £37,500 -6.25% 3
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 4 (57.14%) Appium
2 4 (57.14%) Protractor
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Automotive
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Tester
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Software Tester
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Client/Server
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Regression Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) HND
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) QA