System Testing Job Trends in the South East

System Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring System Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 245 238
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 +123
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 17 56 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.62% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.70% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11 37 24
10th Percentile - £45,750 £47,350
25th Percentile £28,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +42.86% +1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,900 - £78,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% +10.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

System 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 8,361 7,965 7,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.34% 88.06% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,967 3,827 5,239
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.37% -4.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing System Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

System Testing job vacancy trend in the South East

System Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing System Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing System Testing

System Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the South East

System 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 System Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Thames Valley +14 9 £55,000 +24.50% 16
Berkshire +3 9 £55,000 +24.50% 7
Hampshire +20 4 £110,000 +37.50% 8
Isle of Wight - 2 £75,900 - 3
Kent -8 1 - - 8
Surrey -14 1 £28,000 -65.00% 4
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Modbus
1 4 (23.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
1 4 (23.53%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Administrator
1 4 (23.53%) Implementation Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Data Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Master Data Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Team Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Commissioning Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Pensions Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) IoT
1 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 4 (23.53%) SCADA
2 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) CMDB
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) FPGA
4 1 (5.88%) NVMe
4 1 (5.88%) PCIe
4 1 (5.88%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (41.18%) Validation
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
4 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (23.53%) ERP
4 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
5 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Master Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.76%) SDLC
6 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) C
3 2 (11.76%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Assembly Language
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) QA
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Altera
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Workday
2 1 (5.88%) Xilinx