System Testing Jobs in the South West

System Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 278 235
Rank change year-on-year +114 -43 +25
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 11 15 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.31% 0.16% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.19% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 12
10th Percentile £30,625 - £29,850
25th Percentile £34,250 £36,875 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -3.36% +32.22%
75th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £54,375 £61,250 £76,000
England median annual salary £47,863 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.53% +1.82% -3.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,324 7,721 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.29% 83.42% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 5,559 3,544
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the South West

System Testing
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the South West.

Salary trend for System Testing in the South West

System Testing
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the South West

System Testing
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol +49 4 £45,000 -23.40% 4
Gloucestershire - 4 - - 11
Wiltshire - 2 £33,000 -
Dorset +39 1 £31,500 -
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (9.09%) Robot Framework
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Test Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Automation Test Lead
3 4 (36.36%) Lead
3 4 (36.36%) Lead Test Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Ada Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Ada Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cabling Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Field Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
1 3 (27.27%) OpenCV
1 3 (27.27%) PyTorch
1 3 (27.27%) React
1 3 (27.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Educational Technology
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Software Testing
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) BDD
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Vision
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (18.18%) Test Management
7 1 (9.09%) Black-Box Testing
7 1 (9.09%) DevOps
7 1 (9.09%) Manual Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) Regression Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
7 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
7 1 (9.09%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Ada
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Rust
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Def Stans
2 1 (9.09%) MISRA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker