Tester Jobs in the North of England

Tester
England > North of England

The median Tester salary in the North of England is £43,387 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 333 172
Rank change year-on-year +11 -161 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 17 57 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.33% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.34% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 14 43 61
10th Percentile £35,375 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,125 £33,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,387 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £58,125 £48,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £54,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 10,709 16,656 15,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.98% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,748 12,889 8,062
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the North of England

Tester
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Tester in the North of England

Tester
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Tester in the North of England

Tester
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 Tester within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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 -21 9 £52,500 +23.53% 13
Yorkshire +53 5 £38,387 -0.94% 8
North East +47 3 £39,637 - 4
Tester
England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 11 (64.71%) Test Automation
2 10 (58.82%) QA
3 9 (52.94%) Azure
4 8 (47.06%) Test Scripting
4 8 (47.06%) Selenium
4 8 (47.06%) Postman
5 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
5 7 (41.18%) Finance
5 7 (41.18%) User Experience
6 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
6 6 (35.29%) JIRA
6 6 (35.29%) Python
6 6 (35.29%) Software Testing
6 6 (35.29%) Agile
7 5 (29.41%) Java
7 5 (29.41%) AWS
7 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
8 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
8 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
8 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (23.53%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (23.53%) Fintech
8 4 (23.53%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (23.53%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (23.53%) SaaS
8 4 (23.53%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (23.53%) Cantonese Language
8 4 (23.53%) Security Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Appium
8 4 (23.53%) GCP

Tester Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) SaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Postman
1 8 (47.06%) Selenium
2 6 (35.29%) JIRA
3 4 (23.53%) Appium
3 4 (23.53%) Fiddler
3 4 (23.53%) JMeter
3 4 (23.53%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.88%) Burp Suite
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
4 1 (5.88%) TestComplete
4 1 (5.88%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Cantonese Language
2 4 (23.53%) Financial Institution
2 4 (23.53%) Mandarin Language
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
1 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Test Automation
2 8 (47.06%) Test Scripting
3 7 (41.18%) User Experience
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Software Testing
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
6 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
6 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Fintech
6 4 (23.53%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (23.53%) Security Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (23.53%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
7 3 (17.65%) Coaching
7 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
8 2 (11.76%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Siebel