Software Testing Job Trends in Oxford

Software Testing
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 0.41% 1.96% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 2.07% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £77,125 £38,300
25th Percentile £66,250 £82,188 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £90,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +80.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 £51,250
90th Percentile - - £52,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £56,250 £90,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% +80.00% +14.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 241 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 78.42% 94.51% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 133 113 224
10th Percentile £34,200 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £39,375 £51,250 £41,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,750 £95,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% +5.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Oxford

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer in Test
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript