Software Testing Jobs in the South East

Software Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 138 93
Rank change year-on-year -1 -45 -51
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 204 358 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.11% 1.91% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.34% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 155 225 271
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £51,049 £39,500 £37,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £48,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,860 15,293 12,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.60% 81.57% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,451 10,441 7,469
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £30,950
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £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 £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the South East

Software 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 Software Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Hampshire +57 64 £55,000 +22.22% 76
Isle of Wight -54 58 £60,000 +140.00% 6
Thames Valley -32 57 £53,500 -2.73% 126
Berkshire -47 25 £55,565 -11.10% 72
Oxfordshire +49 16 - - 17
Buckinghamshire +25 16 £42,500 -13.27% 38
East Sussex +34 7 £47,500 -5.00% 22
West Sussex +28 6 £55,000 -21.43% 27
Surrey +1 5 £57,500 +21.05% 28
Kent +15 4 £53,750 -2.27% 9
Middlesex -17 3 £37,500 -58.33%
Software Testing
England

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.49%) JBoss
1 1 (0.49%) WinCC
Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Simulink
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.49%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
1 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (4.41%) Azure
2 7 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (3.43%) SaaS
3 3 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (1.47%) GitHub
4 1 (0.49%) GCP
4 1 (0.49%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.41%) 5G
1 9 (4.41%) Bluetooth
1 9 (4.41%) LTE
1 9 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.47%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) LAN
3 1 (0.49%) Profibus
3 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.86%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.88%) OLTP
3 5 (2.45%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.98%) Metadata
5 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.49%) MySQL
6 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (12.75%) Git
2 14 (6.86%) MagicDraw
3 10 (4.90%) JIRA
4 8 (3.92%) Selenium
5 5 (2.45%) Appium
5 5 (2.45%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.45%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.96%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.47%) JMeter
7 3 (1.47%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.98%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.98%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.98%) Subversion
9 1 (0.49%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.49%) JUnit
9 1 (0.49%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.80%) Aerospace
3 11 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.41%) Electronics
5 6 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.94%) Finance
6 3 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.47%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.98%) Legal
7 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.98%) Military
7 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Advertising
8 1 (0.49%) Automotive
8 1 (0.49%) Aviation
8 1 (0.49%) Avionics
8 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.49%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 113 (55.39%) Senior
2 55 (26.96%) Test Engineer
3 51 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
4 47 (23.04%) Senior Software Test Engineer
4 47 (23.04%) Senior Test Engineer
5 37 (18.14%) Software Engineer
6 32 (15.69%) Developer
7 30 (14.71%) Lead
7 30 (14.71%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (14.22%) Senior Developer
9 18 (8.82%) Analyst
10 17 (8.33%) Software Developer
11 16 (7.84%) Senior Software Developer
12 15 (7.35%) Test Leader
13 12 (5.88%) PL/SQL Developer
13 12 (5.88%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 12 (5.88%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
13 12 (5.88%) Software Team Leader
13 12 (5.88%) SQL Developer
13 12 (5.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.22%) XML
2 21 (10.29%) .NET
3 16 (7.84%) SOAP
4 15 (7.35%) .NET Core
5 14 (6.86%) ASP.NET
5 14 (6.86%) HTML
6 13 (6.37%) Qt
7 5 (2.45%) Gherkin
8 4 (1.96%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.96%) Kafka
9 3 (1.47%) Playwright
10 2 (0.98%) CSS
11 1 (0.49%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.49%) CakePHP
11 1 (0.49%) Hibernate
11 1 (0.49%) Laravel
11 1 (0.49%) Node.js
11 1 (0.49%) RESTful
11 1 (0.49%) Spring
11 1 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.84%) Acoustics
2 13 (6.37%) Embedded Systems
3 9 (4.41%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.41%) IoT
3 9 (4.41%) NB-IoT
4 5 (2.45%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.47%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.47%) FPGA
6 3 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.47%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.98%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.98%) SCADA
8 1 (0.49%) CCTV
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.49%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.29%) Linux
2 14 (6.86%) Windows
3 11 (5.39%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.90%) Unix
5 6 (2.94%) Android
5 6 (2.94%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (62.25%) Test Automation
2 96 (47.06%) Computer Science
3 81 (39.71%) Agile
4 60 (29.41%) Validation
5 59 (28.92%) Verification and Validation
6 56 (27.45%) Software Engineering
6 56 (27.45%) UML
7 54 (26.47%) Configuration Management
8 46 (22.55%) Waterfall
9 29 (14.22%) Manual Testing
9 29 (14.22%) SDLC
10 27 (13.24%) Code Quality
10 27 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (12.75%) Regression Testing
12 24 (11.76%) CI/CD
13 23 (11.27%) Mathematics
14 15 (7.35%) SysML
15 14 (6.86%) Data Modelling
15 14 (6.86%) DevOps
16 13 (6.37%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.98%) Python
2 42 (20.59%) C++
3 36 (17.65%) C#
4 32 (15.69%) SQL
5 28 (13.73%) C
6 26 (12.75%) Ada
7 21 (10.29%) Bash
8 13 (6.37%) JavaScript
9 12 (5.88%) PL/SQL
10 11 (5.39%) Fortran
10 11 (5.39%) Java
11 10 (4.90%) Rust
12 9 (4.41%) PowerShell
12 9 (4.41%) TypeScript
13 5 (2.45%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.96%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.47%) Embedded C++
16 1 (0.49%) Go
16 1 (0.49%) PHP
16 1 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 118 (57.84%) Degree
2 73 (35.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.78%) Security Cleared
4 20 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (9.31%) ISTQB
6 15 (7.35%) Master's Degree
7 12 (5.88%) Chartered Engineer
8 11 (5.39%) PhD
9 9 (4.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (4.41%) DV Cleared
9 9 (4.41%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (2.45%) ISEB
11 5 (2.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.49%) CCNA
12 1 (0.49%) CCNP
12 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.49%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 22 (10.78%) QA
3 3 (1.47%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.98%) GDPR
4 2 (0.98%) GxP
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.49%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (4.41%) vSphere
3 3 (1.47%) Firmware
4 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 9 (4.41%) Ansible
1 9 (4.41%) Puppet
1 9 (4.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.98%) SCCM
2 2 (0.98%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (6.86%) VMware
2 13 (6.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.37%) Oracle
3 3 (1.47%) Xilinx
4 2 (0.98%) Cisco
4 2 (0.98%) SAP
5 1 (0.49%) AVEVA
5 1 (0.49%) Citrix
5 1 (0.49%) EMC
5 1 (0.49%) Google
5 1 (0.49%) HP
5 1 (0.49%) IBM
5 1 (0.49%) Juniper
5 1 (0.49%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.49%) Rockwell
5 1 (0.49%) Siemens
5 1 (0.49%) Sparx
5 1 (0.49%) Splunk
5 1 (0.49%) Spotify