Test Harness Job Trends in the South West

Test Harness
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Test Harness skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 168 -
Rank change year-on-year -71 - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Harness 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.032% 0.029% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.035% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,397 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.57% -19.39% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Test Harness 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 6,732 2,870 5,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.02% 82.33% 75.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,521 1,868 3,881
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

Test Harness
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Harness relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Test Harness job vacancy trend in the South West

Test Harness
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Test Harness.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Test Harness

Test Harness
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 Harness within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Somerset - 3 - - 1
Test Harness
England

Test Harness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (100.00%) Aviation
1 3 (100.00%) Avionics
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (100.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 3 (100.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) SysML
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) UML
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Ada
1 3 (100.00%) Ada 95
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (100.00%) MIL-STD-1553