Exploratory Testing Job Trends in Shropshire

Exploratory Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Exploratory 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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 315 71 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 71.59% 78.89% 82.61%
Number of salaries quoted 179 54 149
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £75,000 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Exploratory Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. 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
Telford - 1 £50,000 -
Exploratory Testing
West Midlands

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode