Senior Software Test Engineer Jobs in Southampton

Senior Software Test Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Senior Software Test Engineer salary in Southampton is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Test Engineer 4 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 1.18% - 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% - 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £70,000
75th Percentile £53,750 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 - £70,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 334 830 733
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.53% 97.08% 93.26%
Number of salaries quoted 268 703 583
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -3.85% -0.95%

Senior Software Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings that featured Senior Software Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Test Engineer in Southampton

Senior Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Test Engineer in Southampton.

Salary trend for Senior Software Test Engineer in Southampton

Senior Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior Software 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 Southampton region featuring Senior Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) C#

Senior Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) GraphQL
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#