Test Engineer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Test Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Test Engineer salary in Northern Ireland is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 71 90
Rank change year-on-year +35 +19 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 2 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.63% 0.55% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.58% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 276 694 742
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.79% 95.99% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 121 355 384
10th Percentile £26,875 £30,000 £30,900
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £62,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,818 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.20% -10.30% -

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Northern Ireland

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Northern Ireland

Test Engineer
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 6
County Armagh - 1 £40,000 -
Test Engineer
UK

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 21 July 2025, Test Engineer 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance