Test Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Test Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Test Engineer salary in Surrey is £61,500 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 88 147 143
Rank change year-on-year +59 -4 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 3 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 0.30% 0.47% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.52% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 11
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £59,750 £40,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £47,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -36.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63,250 £51,563 £91,250
90th Percentile - £54,750 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 789 2,311 2,286
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.20% 91.31% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 566 1,491 1,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Surrey

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in Surrey.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Surrey

Test Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 4 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
Woking - 2 - - 2
Reigate - 1 £61,500 - 1
Test Engineer
South East

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

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

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Robot Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum-ban
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) GxP
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Informatics
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io

Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) Robot Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Informatics
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum-ban
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
2 1 (33.33%) QA