Senior Tester Job Trends in Staines

Senior Tester
Surrey > Staines

The median Senior Tester salary in Staines is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	24	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester	12	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Staines	11.01%	-	-
As % of the Job Titles category	11.32%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	12	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£48,000	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	-	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Surrey median annual salary	£50,000	-	-

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Staines

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Staines. 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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in Staines with a recognized job title	106	47	33
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title	97.25%	97.92%	100.00%
Number of salaries quoted	80	42	31
10^th Percentile	£39,625	£34,325	-
25^th Percentile	£47,875	£43,438	£31,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£62,500	£41,000
Median % change year-on-year	-12.00%	+52.44%	-18.00%
75^th Percentile	£68,750	£72,500	£53,750
90^th Percentile	£73,750	£75,000	£68,750
Surrey median annual salary	£55,000	£45,000	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+22.22%	-18.18%	-

Senior Tester Job Vacancy Trend in Staines

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Tester' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staines.

Senior Tester Salary Trend in Staines

Salary distribution trend for Senior Tester job vacancies in Staines.

Senior Tester Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staines

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, Senior Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Staines region featuring Senior Tester in the job title.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	100.0%	12
1	AWS	100.0%	12
1	CI/CD	100.0%	12
4	SC Cleared	75.0%	9
4	Security Cleared	75.0%	9
6	AppDynamics	58.3%	7
6	Dynatrace	58.3%	7
6	Elasticsearch	58.3%	7
6	Gatling	58.3%	7
6	Grafana	58.3%	7
6	HTTP	58.3%	7
6	JMeter	58.3%	7
6	Kibana	58.3%	7
6	LoadRunner	58.3%	7
6	Performance Testing	58.3%	7
6	Programme Delivery	58.3%	7
6	Runbook	58.3%	7
6	Test Scripting	58.3%	7
6	User-Centered Design (UCD)	58.3%	7
20	Azure	41.7%	5
20	Batch Processing	41.7%	5
20	Continuous Improvement	41.7%	5
20	Defect Management	41.7%	5
20	DevOps	41.7%	5
20	Disaster Recovery	41.7%	5
20	ITIL	41.7%	5
20	Mentoring	41.7%	5
20	Operational Acceptance Testing	41.7%	5
20	Problem Management	41.7%	5
20	Release Management	41.7%	5

Senior Tester Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staines by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

Rank	Job Title	Share	Job Ads
1	Senior Performance Tester	58.3%	7
2	OAT Tester	41.7%	5