Software Testing Job Trends in Portsmouth

Software Testing
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 3 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 0.90% - 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% - 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.57%
75th Percentile - - £58,125
90th Percentile - - £68,250
Hampshire median annual salary £38,750 £41,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% -13.16% -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 301 259 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 90.39% 88.40% 81.56%
Number of salaries quoted 191 154 157
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,998 £51,611 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -6.16% -
75th Percentile £65,625 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,375 £78,750
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £56,921 £52,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +9.46% -5.45%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 3 (100.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 3 (100.00%) SysML
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared