Software Testing Jobs in the North of England

Software Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 155 48
Rank change year-on-year -63 -107 +91
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 142 290 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.21% 1.64% 6.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.98% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 124 220 165
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,748 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.01%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,875 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,443 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.47% -5.45% +0.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,141 14,663 16,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.00% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 11,257 7,869
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the North of England

Software 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 Software Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -66 95 £57,560 +4.65% 69
Yorkshire +3 40 £32,500 -40.91% 34
North East +29 7 £40,000 -27.27% 21
Software Testing
England

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.93%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.42%) AWS
2 26 (18.31%) SaaS
3 13 (9.15%) Azure
4 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.23%) GCP
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.82%) Serverless
7 2 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.41%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.70%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.70%) mabl
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.70%) Profibus
1 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.08%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.23%) Redis
3 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.41%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.41%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (21.13%) JIRA
2 21 (14.79%) eggPlant
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (4.23%) Postman
4 5 (3.52%) Selenium
4 5 (3.52%) TestRail
5 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.41%) JUnit
7 1 (0.70%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.70%) Git
7 1 (0.70%) GitLab
7 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.70%) JMeter
7 1 (0.70%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.70%) NetBeans
7 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.70%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.70%) TestNG
7 1 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (23.24%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.42%) Aerospace
4 18 (12.68%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (9.86%) Finance
6 7 (4.93%) Games
7 6 (4.23%) Banking
8 3 (2.11%) Marketing
8 3 (2.11%) Retail
9 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.70%) Advertising
10 1 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (32.39%) Lead
2 35 (24.65%) Analyst
3 27 (19.01%) Software Analyst
4 26 (18.31%) Senior
5 24 (16.90%) Software Engineer
6 23 (16.20%) Test Analyst
7 21 (14.79%) Software Test Analyst
8 20 (14.08%) Support Engineer
9 16 (11.27%) IT Engineer
9 16 (11.27%) IT Support
9 16 (11.27%) IT Support Engineer
9 16 (11.27%) Software Support Engineer
10 12 (8.45%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (8.45%) Senior Test Analyst
11 11 (7.75%) Senior Software Test Analyst
12 10 (7.04%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (4.93%) Developer
13 7 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (4.23%) Business Analyst
14 6 (4.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.97%) React
2 14 (9.86%) Node.js
3 13 (9.15%) .NET
4 6 (4.23%) Express.js
4 6 (4.23%) GraphQL
4 6 (4.23%) Kafka
5 4 (2.82%) CSS
5 4 (2.82%) HTML
6 3 (2.11%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.41%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.41%) Flask
7 2 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.41%) React Native
7 2 (1.41%) REST
7 2 (1.41%) RESTful
7 2 (1.41%) Software Packaging
7 2 (1.41%) Web Services
7 2 (1.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.90%) Product Ownership
2 21 (14.79%) Mobile App
3 17 (11.97%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.11%) Online Games
6 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.70%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Life Science
7 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Robotics
7 1 (0.70%) SCADA
7 1 (0.70%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.68%) Windows
2 16 (11.27%) Android
3 4 (2.82%) Linux
4 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.32%) Agile
2 50 (35.21%) SDLC
3 44 (30.99%) Test Automation
4 41 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (26.76%) Software Engineering
6 35 (24.65%) Collaborative Culture
6 35 (24.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (22.54%) Scrum
8 29 (20.42%) Systems Thinking
9 23 (16.20%) Acceptance Criteria
9 23 (16.20%) Mentoring
10 22 (15.49%) Mathematics
10 22 (15.49%) Waterfall
11 21 (14.79%) V-Model
12 19 (13.38%) CI/CD
12 19 (13.38%) Customer Service
13 17 (11.97%) CRM
14 16 (11.27%) Analytical Thinking
14 16 (11.27%) Data Privacy
14 16 (11.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.69%) Java
2 44 (30.99%) SQL
3 21 (14.79%) JavaScript
4 18 (12.68%) C#
5 14 (9.86%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.75%) Python
7 6 (4.23%) PL/SQL
7 6 (4.23%) Rust
8 5 (3.52%) C++
9 2 (1.41%) C
10 1 (0.70%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.70%) Go
10 1 (0.70%) PHP
10 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (32.39%) Degree
2 21 (14.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.70%) MCSD
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.79%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.70%) IEC 61508
2 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.41%) Ansible
2 2 (1.41%) Grafana
2 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (26.06%) Oracle
2 21 (14.79%) Keysight
2 21 (14.79%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.27%) Zoho
4 2 (1.41%) VMware
5 1 (0.70%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.70%) AVEVA
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.70%) Rockwell
5 1 (0.70%) Sage
5 1 (0.70%) SAP
5 1 (0.70%) Siemens