Software Testing Job Trends in Sunderland

Software Testing
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sunderland requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Sunderland 1.71% - 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% - 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53,750
25th Percentile £42,500 - £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £60,000
75th Percentile £47,500 - £63,125
90th Percentile - - £64,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £56,482
% change year-on-year +43.75% -29.18% +32.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sunderland

Software Testing 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 Sunderland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 113 49 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 64.57% 96.08% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 82 26 82
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,669 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,125 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +3.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £54,688 £59,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £65,000 £62,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £45,249
% change year-on-year +14.58% +6.08% -13.81%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Sunderland.

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Sunderland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Fluentd
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft