Software Testing Jobs in the South East

Software Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 95 46
Rank change year-on-year -45 -49 +55
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 320 476 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.90% 3.29% 5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.48% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 246 300 525
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,725 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £61,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.55% +1.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,216 13,675 18,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.52% 94.51% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9,913 7,963 11,906
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,200 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the South East.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the South East

Software 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 Software Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 -42 132 £51,020 +5.19% 34
Berkshire -3 100 £59,000 -1.67% 16
Hampshire -48 82 £45,000 -18.18% 26
Surrey -14 43 £46,500 -28.46% 21
Kent +19 32 £55,000 - 4
Oxfordshire -25 16 £40,000 +10.34% 3
Buckinghamshire -28 16 £49,000 +1.55% 16
West Sussex +12 11 £56,000 -6.67% 4
Middlesex -8 8 £42,750 -44.84%
Sussex - 6 £56,000 -
Isle of Wight - 5 £25,000 -
East Sussex -3 1 £50,000 -28.57% 3
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (3.44%) Apache
2 6 (1.88%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.25%) TWiki
3 4 (1.25%) WinCC
4 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) Moodle
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.31%) Totara
Applications
1 25 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.88%) Simulink
2 22 (6.88%) Stateflow
3 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (2.19%) CANalyzer
5 4 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.63%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 7 (2.19%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (15.31%) Azure
2 31 (9.69%) AWS
3 30 (9.38%) SaaS
4 23 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (6.88%) GitHub
6 12 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (2.19%) IaaS
8 6 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.94%) GCP
9 3 (0.94%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.63%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.63%) Figma
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.31%) Serverless
11 1 (0.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.06%) Firewall
2 11 (3.44%) J1939
3 9 (2.81%) LAN
3 9 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.50%) Network Security
5 5 (1.56%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.56%) RS-232
5 5 (1.56%) RS-485
6 4 (1.25%) 4G
6 4 (1.25%) Wireless
6 4 (1.25%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.63%) DHCP
7 2 (0.63%) DNS
7 2 (0.63%) VSAT
8 1 (0.31%) GPRS
8 1 (0.31%) MQTT
8 1 (0.31%) Profibus
8 1 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.75%) OLTP
3 5 (1.56%) Big Data
4 3 (0.94%) Power BI
4 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.31%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (16.56%) JIRA
2 49 (15.31%) Selenium
3 38 (11.88%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.94%) GitLab
5 18 (5.63%) ClearCase
5 18 (5.63%) Plastic SCM
5 18 (5.63%) Visual Studio
6 17 (5.31%) Cucumber
7 15 (4.69%) Cypress.io
8 14 (4.38%) ClearQuest
9 12 (3.75%) JUnit
10 11 (3.44%) Robot Framework
11 10 (3.13%) JMeter
12 9 (2.81%) eggPlant
12 9 (2.81%) Postman
12 9 (2.81%) TestNG
13 8 (2.50%) Git
13 8 (2.50%) REST Assured
13 8 (2.50%) WebDriver
14 7 (2.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.69%) Organisational Skills
3 40 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.19%) Electronics
5 18 (5.63%) Automotive
6 17 (5.31%) Aerospace
7 15 (4.69%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.50%) Finance
8 8 (2.50%) Marketing
9 7 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.19%) Retail
10 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.25%) Aviation
12 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.63%) Police
13 2 (0.63%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (15.94%) Software Engineer
2 43 (13.44%) Senior
3 36 (11.25%) Analyst
3 36 (11.25%) Test Engineer
4 34 (10.63%) Tester
5 32 (10.00%) Developer
6 25 (7.81%) Consultant
7 24 (7.50%) Test Analyst
8 22 (6.88%) Lead
9 21 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (5.00%) Software Test Engineer
10 16 (5.00%) Software Tester
10 16 (5.00%) Support Engineer
11 15 (4.69%) Architect
11 15 (4.69%) Automation Tester
11 15 (4.69%) Software Architect
12 14 (4.38%) ERP Consultant
12 14 (4.38%) ERP Implementation Consultant
12 14 (4.38%) Implementation Consultant
12 14 (4.38%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.06%) XML
2 27 (8.44%) HTML
3 20 (6.25%) .NET
4 19 (5.94%) SOAP
5 18 (5.63%) Web Services
6 10 (3.13%) REST
7 9 (2.81%) WireMock
8 8 (2.50%) Playwright
9 7 (2.19%) Apache Commons
9 7 (2.19%) Guava
9 7 (2.19%) Java Concurrency
10 6 (1.88%) JSON
10 6 (1.88%) OpenMP
10 6 (1.88%) React
10 6 (1.88%) WPF
11 5 (1.56%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.56%) Node.js
11 5 (1.56%) RESTful
12 4 (1.25%) Qt
12 4 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.69%) Algorithms
2 22 (6.88%) Management Information System
3 17 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.44%) Life Science
6 11 (3.44%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.81%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (2.19%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.88%) CUDA
10 6 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.56%) EPoS
12 4 (1.25%) Device Driver
12 4 (1.25%) FPGA
12 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.25%) Robotics
12 4 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.44%) Linux
2 41 (12.81%) Windows
3 14 (4.38%) Unix
4 9 (2.81%) Windows 10
4 9 (2.81%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.63%) CentOS
6 2 (0.63%) Debian
6 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (38.13%) Agile
2 104 (32.50%) Test Automation
3 98 (30.63%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (22.50%) Software Engineering
5 60 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 57 (17.81%) DevOps
7 52 (16.25%) CI/CD
8 36 (11.25%) SDET
9 35 (10.94%) Containerisation
9 35 (10.94%) Physics
10 31 (9.69%) Test Strategy
11 30 (9.38%) Configuration Management
11 30 (9.38%) Customer Service
11 30 (9.38%) Mathematics
12 25 (7.81%) Test Scripting
13 24 (7.50%) Validation
14 23 (7.19%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (7.19%) Scrum
14 23 (7.19%) Time Management
15 22 (6.88%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 93 (29.06%) Python
2 64 (20.00%) SQL
3 59 (18.44%) C
3 59 (18.44%) C#
4 40 (12.50%) C++
5 39 (12.19%) JavaScript
6 37 (11.56%) Bash
7 32 (10.00%) Embedded C
8 28 (8.75%) Java
9 25 (7.81%) Fortran
10 23 (7.19%) MATLAB
11 18 (5.63%) Perl
12 14 (4.38%) PL/SQL
13 13 (4.06%) Groovy
14 7 (2.19%) Ruby
14 7 (2.19%) TypeScript
15 6 (1.88%) Go
16 5 (1.56%) Embedded C++
17 4 (1.25%) PHP
18 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 114 (35.63%) Degree
2 72 (22.50%) Security Cleared
3 35 (10.94%) ISTQB
4 30 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 29 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 14 (4.38%) ISEB
8 13 (4.06%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.06%) PhD
9 11 (3.44%) HND
10 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.63%) CBAP
12 2 (0.63%) IIBA
13 1 (0.31%) CCNA
13 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (21.25%) QA
2 19 (5.94%) MISRA
3 12 (3.75%) ISO 26262
4 11 (3.44%) Automotive SPICE
4 11 (3.44%) AUTOSAR
5 7 (2.19%) SLA
6 5 (1.56%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) JTAG
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (9.69%) Docker
2 24 (7.50%) Firmware
3 12 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.69%) Terraform
3 9 (2.81%) SCCM
4 5 (1.56%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (1.25%) Ansible
6 3 (0.94%) Wonderware InTouch
7 2 (0.63%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.63%) Grafana
7 2 (0.63%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) Kibana
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.81%) Oracle
3 18 (5.63%) IBM
3 18 (5.63%) Lauterbach
4 14 (4.38%) HP
5 11 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.81%) SAP
7 8 (2.50%) Sage
8 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.88%) Epicor
10 4 (1.25%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.25%) Facebook
10 4 (1.25%) Instagram
10 4 (1.25%) Rockwell
10 4 (1.25%) Siemens
11 3 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.94%) Databricks
11 3 (0.94%) Google
11 3 (0.94%) Wonderware
12 2 (0.63%) WatchGuard