Test Specialist Job Trends in the South East

Test Specialist
England > South East

The median Test Specialist salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 - 282
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Specialist 6 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.058% - 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £49,500 - -
25th Percentile £54,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile £69,500 - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £36,500 £23,000
% change year-on-year +78.08% +58.70% -56.19%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 9,563 8,246 8,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 91.17% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,951 4,365 5,811
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,059
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.59% -3.97%

Test Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Specialist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Test Specialist job vacancy trend in the South East

Test Specialist
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Test Specialist job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Test Specialist job vacancies in the South East

Test Specialist
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Test Specialist in the South East

Test Specialist
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 Test Specialist 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
Berkshire - 4 £47,500 -
Thames Valley - 4 £47,500 -
West Sussex - 2 £67,500 -
Test Specialist
England

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 January 2026, Test Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Test Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) Appium
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Playwright
3 2 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (33.33%) SCCM
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) SCOM
3 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) V-Model
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra

Test Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Appium
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) TestNG
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (33.33%) V-Model
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) API Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Terminal Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
1 2 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee