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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 136 98
Rank change year-on-year +1 -38 -51
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 203 334 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.15% 1.93% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.31% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 150 243 287
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £52,000 £39,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,283 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,560 £51,020 £55,500
% change year-on-year +12.82% -8.07% +0.91%

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 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £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%

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 28 May 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 28 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
Hampshire +47 60 £55,000 +22.22% 49
Isle of Wight -47 59 £60,000 +140.00% 1
Thames Valley -10 57 £55,565 +4.82% 55
Berkshire -31 28 £67,500 +8.00% 28
Oxfordshire +46 16 - - 11
Buckinghamshire +31 13 £44,000 -10.20% 22
Surrey +13 11 £63,750 +37.10% 23
West Sussex +33 6 £55,000 -1.79% 10
East Sussex +29 5 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Kent +14 4 £53,750 -2.27% 7
Middlesex -21 1 - - 4
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 7 (3.45%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.97%) Simulink
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (3.45%) Power Automate
1 7 (3.45%) SaaS
2 4 (1.97%) Azure
3 3 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (1.48%) GitHub
4 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.49%) GCP
5 1 (0.49%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.43%) 5G
1 9 (4.43%) Bluetooth
1 9 (4.43%) LTE
1 9 (4.43%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.48%) Software-Defined Radio
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 15 (7.39%) OLTP
2 14 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.99%) Metadata
5 2 (0.99%) 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 (12.81%) Git
2 14 (6.90%) MagicDraw
3 8 (3.94%) JIRA
3 8 (3.94%) Selenium
4 5 (2.46%) Appium
4 5 (2.46%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.97%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.48%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.48%) JMeter
7 2 (0.99%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.99%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.49%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.49%) JUnit
8 1 (0.49%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.49%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.49%) Subversion
8 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.85%) Aerospace
3 11 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.43%) Electronics
5 7 (3.45%) Local Government
6 6 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.46%) Finance
8 3 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.48%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Advertising
10 1 (0.49%) Automotive
10 1 (0.49%) Avionics
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (55.17%) Senior
2 55 (27.09%) Test Engineer
3 52 (25.62%) Software Test Engineer
4 48 (23.65%) Senior Software Test Engineer
4 48 (23.65%) Senior Test Engineer
5 42 (20.69%) Developer
6 37 (18.23%) Software Engineer
7 32 (15.76%) Senior Developer
8 30 (14.78%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (14.29%) Lead
10 17 (8.37%) Software Developer
11 16 (7.88%) Senior Software Developer
12 15 (7.39%) Oracle Developer
12 15 (7.39%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 14 (6.90%) PL/SQL Developer
13 14 (6.90%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
13 14 (6.90%) Senior SQL Developer
13 14 (6.90%) SQL Developer
13 14 (6.90%) Test Leader
14 13 (6.40%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.27%) XML
2 27 (13.30%) .NET
3 18 (8.87%) SOAP
4 17 (8.37%) HTML
5 15 (7.39%) .NET Core
6 14 (6.90%) ASP.NET
7 13 (6.40%) Qt
8 5 (2.46%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.97%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.97%) Kafka
10 3 (1.48%) Playwright
11 2 (0.99%) CSS
12 1 (0.49%) .NET Framework
12 1 (0.49%) CakePHP
12 1 (0.49%) Hibernate
12 1 (0.49%) Laravel
12 1 (0.49%) Node.js
12 1 (0.49%) RESTful
12 1 (0.49%) Spring
12 1 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.88%) Acoustics
2 13 (6.40%) Embedded Systems
3 9 (4.43%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.43%) IoT
3 9 (4.43%) NB-IoT
4 7 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.45%) Robotics
5 5 (2.46%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.48%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.48%) FPGA
6 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.48%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.99%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.99%) SCADA
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.34%) Linux
2 11 (5.42%) Windows
3 10 (4.93%) Unix
3 10 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.96%) Android
4 6 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (61.58%) Test Automation
2 97 (47.78%) Computer Science
3 75 (36.95%) Agile
4 61 (30.05%) Validation
5 60 (29.56%) Verification and Validation
6 56 (27.59%) UML
7 54 (26.60%) Configuration Management
7 54 (26.60%) Software Engineering
8 45 (22.17%) Waterfall
9 32 (15.76%) Code Quality
10 29 (14.29%) SDLC
11 25 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (12.32%) Regression Testing
12 24 (11.82%) Manual Testing
13 22 (10.84%) Mathematics
14 21 (10.34%) CI/CD
15 14 (6.90%) Data Modelling
15 14 (6.90%) SysML
16 13 (6.40%) Knowledge Transfer
16 13 (6.40%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.12%) Python
2 41 (20.20%) C#
2 41 (20.20%) C++
3 29 (14.29%) SQL
4 27 (13.30%) C
5 26 (12.81%) Ada
6 21 (10.34%) Bash
7 20 (9.85%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.39%) PL/SQL
9 11 (5.42%) Fortran
9 11 (5.42%) Java
10 10 (4.93%) Rust
11 9 (4.43%) PowerShell
11 9 (4.43%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.45%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.97%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.97%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.48%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.49%) Go
15 1 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 118 (58.13%) Degree
2 79 (38.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 18 (8.87%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.87%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.39%) Master's Degree
5 14 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.90%) ISTQB
6 12 (5.91%) Chartered Engineer
7 11 (5.42%) PhD
8 9 (4.43%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (4.43%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.43%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.49%) CCNA
10 1 (0.49%) CCNP
10 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 23 (11.33%) QA
3 3 (1.48%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.99%) GxP
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.49%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (4.43%) vSphere
2 3 (1.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.43%) Ansible
1 9 (4.43%) Puppet
1 9 (4.43%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) SCCM
2 1 (0.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.88%) Oracle
3 13 (6.40%) VMware
4 7 (3.45%) UiPath
5 3 (1.48%) Xilinx
6 1 (0.49%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.49%) Cisco
6 1 (0.49%) Citrix
6 1 (0.49%) Google
6 1 (0.49%) HP
6 1 (0.49%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.49%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.49%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) Siemens
6 1 (0.49%) Splunk
6 1 (0.49%) Spotify