Software Testing Jobs in Surrey

Software Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 115 100
Rank change year-on-year +42 -15 -41
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 13 41 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 1.33% 1.62% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.80% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 44
10th Percentile £45,625 £40,000 £43,100
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -28.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £54,375 £52,188 £86,563
90th Percentile £65,000 £64,750 £97,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -12.73% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 878 2,284 2,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 89.96% 90.42% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 531 1,435 1,395
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,021 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Surrey

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Surrey.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Surrey

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Surrey over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Surrey

Software Testing
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Reigate - 7 - - 1
Guildford +17 6 £50,000 +9.89% 5
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) 3GPP
1 1 (7.69%) 5G
1 1 (7.69%) Broadband
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Appium
1 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
1 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Automation Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Robotics Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Tester
3 4 (30.77%) Software Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
4 2 (15.38%) QA Automation Tester
4 2 (15.38%) QA Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Software QA Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (15.38%) Blazor
2 2 (15.38%) gRPC
2 2 (15.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Onboarding
1 7 (53.85%) Robotics
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Conversational UI
1 7 (53.85%) Robotic Process Automation
1 7 (53.85%) Technical Debt
2 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
2 5 (38.46%) Mathematics
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (15.38%) QA Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Physics
6 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) C#
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 7 (53.85%) VB.NET
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
1 7 (53.85%) UiPath