Software Testing Job Trends in Nottingham

Software Testing
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 41 43
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +14
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1 21 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 0.19% 4.30% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 4.65% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 19 7
10th Percentile - £42,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,125 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +46.67% -42.31%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £89,375
90th Percentile - - £107,500
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +46.67% -42.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 452 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 79.42% 92.62% 86.00%
Number of salaries quoted 247 212 365
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £30,400
25th Percentile £31,875 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £56,225 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +7.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,625 £75,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA