Exploratory Testing Job Trends in Somerset

Exploratory Testing
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £43,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 655 252 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 74.60% 93.33% 64.19%
Number of salaries quoted 353 151 445
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,405 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,180 £75,000 £66,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,373
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.19% -4.87%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in Somerset

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Exploratory Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Taunton - 1 £42,500 -
Exploratory Testing
South West

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG