Exploratory Testing Jobs in the South East

Exploratory Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 397 386
Rank change year-on-year +103 -11 +46
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 7 3 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.073% 0.017% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.021% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 15
10th Percentile £31,470 - £55,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -37.04% +28.57%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £51,550 - £81,250
England median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% -18.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,777 14,553 13,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.07% 83.59% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,223 10,031 7,752
10th Percentile £29,300 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,928 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the South East

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the South East.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in the South East

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in the South East

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
East Sussex +30 5 £42,500 - 6
Hampshire +73 1 £16,800 -60.47% 6
Surrey - 1 £61,500 - 4
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Cypress.io
2 5 (71.43%) Postman
2 5 (71.43%) TestComplete
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) QA Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Software QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Software Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Web Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Load Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Regression Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA