Test Engineer Jobs in the South West

Test Engineer
England > South West

The median Test Engineer salary in the South West is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 235 208
Rank change year-on-year +87 -27 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 35 57 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.98% 0.62% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.64% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 42
10th Percentile - £39,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £42,500 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +1.94% +16.94%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,250
90th Percentile £64,375 £72,500 £66,350
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,366 8,908 5,965
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 96.25% 89.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,014 6,534 3,700
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
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 Test Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Gloucestershire +61 13 £52,500 -19.23% 39
Wiltshire +38 13 £34,500 -28.87% 3
Devon +13 4 - - 6
Dorset +50 3 £35,000 - 4
Bristol +52 1 £60,000 +23.08% 21
Somerset +7 1 £57,500 +36.09% 8
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 21 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 17 (48.57%) Degree
4 16 (45.71%) Software Testing
5 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (37.14%) Windows
6 13 (37.14%) Linux
7 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
9 10 (28.57%) ISTQB
10 9 (25.71%) Electronics
10 9 (25.71%) HND
10 9 (25.71%) 5G
11 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
11 8 (22.86%) Regression Testing
11 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
11 8 (22.86%) LabVIEW
11 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
12 7 (20.00%) Manual Testing
12 7 (20.00%) Time Management
12 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
12 7 (20.00%) Java
12 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 6 (17.14%) System Testing
13 6 (17.14%) TDD
13 6 (17.14%) Git
13 6 (17.14%) Test Strategy
13 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
13 6 (17.14%) Coaching
14 5 (14.29%) pytest

Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (11.43%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) GitHub
2 2 (5.71%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.86%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) 5G
2 5 (14.29%) Bluetooth
2 5 (14.29%) GSM
2 5 (14.29%) LTE
2 5 (14.29%) UMTS
2 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (14.29%) Wireless
3 4 (11.43%) SD-WAN
3 4 (11.43%) WAN
4 1 (2.86%) DHCP
4 1 (2.86%) DNS
4 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.86%) Neo4j
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) LabVIEW
2 6 (17.14%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) JIRA
4 3 (8.57%) Cypress.io
4 3 (8.57%) Selenium
5 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.71%) JUnit
6 1 (2.86%) git-flow
6 1 (2.86%) GitLab
6 1 (2.86%) NUnit
6 1 (2.86%) Postman
6 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
6 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.86%) TestRail
6 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Electronics
4 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
5 4 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.86%) boto
2 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.86%) MERN Stack
2 1 (2.86%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) Playwright
2 1 (2.86%) React
2 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 4 (11.43%) Analogue Electronics
2 4 (11.43%) Self-Driving Car
2 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (45.71%) Software Testing
3 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) Regression Testing
4 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 7 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 7 (20.00%) Time Management
6 6 (17.14%) Coaching
6 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
6 6 (17.14%) System Testing
6 6 (17.14%) TDD
6 6 (17.14%) Test Strategy
7 5 (14.29%) BDD
7 5 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (14.29%) Validation
7 5 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
8 4 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.43%) Physics
8 4 (11.43%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 7 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (11.43%) C
4 4 (11.43%) Embedded C
4 4 (11.43%) MATLAB
4 4 (11.43%) SQL
5 2 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) Go
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Degree
2 10 (28.57%) ISTQB
3 9 (25.71%) HND
4 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
5 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) ISEB
6 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.86%) IBM
2 1 (2.86%) VMware