Software Testing Jobs in the North of England

Software 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 Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 50 132
Rank change year-on-year -107 +82 -35
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 273 1,102 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.58% 6.30% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 6.50% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 215 170 246
10th Percentile £27,700 £31,250 £27,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £68,125
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.55% +1.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Software 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 14,504 16,945 16,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 96.88% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,139 8,099 10,783
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
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%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
North West -112 156 £55,000 +10.55% 46
Yorkshire -58 97 £55,000 +10.00% 34
North East -8 20 £55,000 -1.79% 4
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 14 (5.13%) Confluence
2 9 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.10%) IIS
3 3 (1.10%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.56%) BPCS
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.48%) Azure
2 44 (16.12%) AWS
3 15 (5.49%) GCP
4 12 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.66%) Google Play
5 10 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (2.93%) GitHub
6 8 (2.93%) Slack
7 6 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.83%) SaaS
9 3 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.10%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.10%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.37%) Boomi
11 1 (0.37%) BrowserStack
11 1 (0.37%) Firebase
11 1 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.06%) Wireless
2 21 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (5.13%) Internet
4 12 (4.40%) 3G
4 12 (4.40%) 4G
4 12 (4.40%) MQTT
4 12 (4.40%) RS-485
5 5 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.47%) LAN
6 4 (1.47%) RS-232
7 2 (0.73%) Firewall
7 2 (0.73%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.37%) Multicast
8 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.49%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.30%) MySQL
4 8 (2.93%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.47%) Big Data
7 2 (0.73%) Power BI
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (13.92%) Git
2 29 (10.62%) Selenium
3 25 (9.16%) JIRA
4 17 (6.23%) Appium
4 17 (6.23%) Postman
5 15 (5.49%) JUnit
6 14 (5.13%) Visual Studio
7 10 (3.66%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.66%) Jenkins
8 9 (3.30%) GitLab
9 8 (2.93%) CircleCI
9 8 (2.93%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.56%) IntelliJ
11 6 (2.20%) JMeter
11 6 (2.20%) LoadRunner
11 6 (2.20%) Subversion
12 5 (1.83%) HP UFT
12 5 (1.83%) Mockito
12 5 (1.83%) MSTest
12 5 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (15.75%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.55%) Finance
3 33 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.59%) Legal
5 16 (5.86%) Electronics
6 14 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.40%) Automotive
7 12 (4.40%) Mandarin Language
7 12 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.03%) Retail
9 8 (2.93%) Banking
10 6 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.20%) Marketing
11 5 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.47%) Back Office
13 2 (0.73%) Military
13 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.37%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 80 (29.30%) Developer
2 68 (24.91%) Senior
3 40 (14.65%) Software Engineer
4 35 (12.82%) .NET Developer
5 27 (9.89%) Embedded Engineer
5 27 (9.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 27 (9.89%) Senior Developer
6 25 (9.16%) Lead
7 23 (8.42%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 22 (8.06%) Tester
9 21 (7.69%) Software Tester
10 17 (6.23%) Analyst
11 16 (5.86%) Test Engineer
12 15 (5.49%) Backend Developer
13 14 (5.13%) Software Developer
14 12 (4.40%) Senior .NET Developer
15 11 (4.03%) IT Support
15 11 (4.03%) Lead Developer
15 11 (4.03%) Test Manager
16 10 (3.66%) Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (18.68%) .NET
2 26 (9.52%) REST
3 22 (8.06%) Web Services
4 18 (6.59%) JSON
5 16 (5.86%) RESTful
6 15 (5.49%) .NET Framework
7 12 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web API
7 12 (4.40%) WCF
8 11 (4.03%) Kafka
8 11 (4.03%) MSMQ
8 11 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (3.66%) Android SDK
9 10 (3.66%) HTML
10 8 (2.93%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.56%) Gherkin
11 7 (2.56%) GraphQL
11 7 (2.56%) React Native
11 7 (2.56%) SOAP
12 6 (2.20%) CSS
13 5 (1.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.79%) Video\Live Streaming
2 17 (6.23%) Mobile App
3 16 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.49%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.56%) iSeries
7 6 (2.20%) NHS
8 4 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.47%) Smart Energy
9 3 (1.10%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) IoT
10 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.73%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.37%) CCTV
11 1 (0.37%) EPoS
11 1 (0.37%) FMCG
11 1 (0.37%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.19%) Linux
2 18 (6.59%) Android
2 18 (6.59%) Windows
3 13 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (2.93%) Unix
5 7 (2.56%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.47%) Debian
6 4 (1.47%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.10%) Mac OS X
7 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.73%) VMS
9 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (44.32%) Agile
2 79 (28.94%) Test Automation
3 67 (24.54%) Software Engineering
4 58 (21.25%) Mentoring
5 51 (18.68%) Coaching
6 43 (15.75%) Computer Science
7 40 (14.65%) DevOps
8 39 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 35 (12.82%) Scrum
10 34 (12.45%) CI/CD
10 34 (12.45%) TDD
11 31 (11.36%) Clean Code
11 31 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (9.89%) SDLC
13 25 (9.16%) OOP
13 25 (9.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 24 (8.79%) Functional Testing
15 23 (8.42%) Project Management
16 22 (8.06%) Code Quality
17 21 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.78%) C#
1 54 (19.78%) SQL
2 44 (16.12%) JavaScript
3 32 (11.72%) C
4 31 (11.36%) Java
5 21 (7.69%) C++
6 20 (7.33%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.76%) Python
8 10 (3.66%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.56%) RPG
9 7 (2.56%) RPG IV
10 6 (2.20%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.47%) Embedded C
11 4 (1.47%) Go
11 4 (1.47%) Groovy
11 4 (1.47%) R
12 2 (0.73%) PHP
12 2 (0.73%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.73%) Ruby
13 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 60 (21.98%) Degree
2 22 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.40%) ISTQB
4 11 (4.03%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.20%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.20%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.47%) CIPD
8 4 (1.47%) PhD
9 2 (0.73%) HND
9 2 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.37%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.37%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (18.68%) QA
2 26 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 23 (8.42%) WCAG
4 22 (8.06%) GDPR
5 8 (2.93%) PSD2
6 2 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.76%) Firmware
2 7 (2.56%) Docker
3 6 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.47%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) NFS
6 1 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.37%) Ansible
2 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.37%) Puppet
2 1 (0.37%) Terraform
2 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 39 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.42%) Google
3 8 (2.93%) Duck Creek
3 8 (2.93%) IBM
4 6 (2.20%) VMware
5 4 (1.47%) Adobe
6 3 (1.10%) SAP
6 3 (1.10%) Splunk
6 3 (1.10%) YouTube
7 2 (0.73%) BT
7 2 (0.73%) Dell
8 1 (0.37%) Atmel
8 1 (0.37%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.37%) Brocade
8 1 (0.37%) CA
8 1 (0.37%) New Relic
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle
8 1 (0.37%) Peregrine