Tester Jobs in the North West

Tester
England > North West

The median Tester salary in the North West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 247 159
Rank change year-on-year -43 -88 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 6 47 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.076% 0.42% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.44% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5 33 29
10th Percentile £44,000 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - £86,750 £69,750
England median annual salary £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.91% +4.76% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,258 10,575 6,556
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 95.00% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,912 7,911 4,006
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the North West

Tester
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Tester in the North West

Tester
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Manchester +36 6 £55,000 +15.79% 19
Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 West region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Postman
2 5 (83.33%) QA
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) JIRA
3 4 (66.67%) Mandarin Language
3 4 (66.67%) Cantonese Language
3 4 (66.67%) ISTQB
3 4 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) LoadRunner
3 4 (66.67%) Financial Institution
3 4 (66.67%) JMeter
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) User Experience
3 4 (66.67%) Appium
3 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Fiddler
3 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Code Quality

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Postman
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) JIRA
3 4 (66.67%) Appium
3 4 (66.67%) Fiddler
3 4 (66.67%) JMeter
3 4 (66.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (66.67%) Cantonese Language
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Financial Institution
1 4 (66.67%) Mandarin Language
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (66.67%) Fintech
3 4 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
3 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Siebel