Test Development Engineer Job Trends in Swansea

Test Development Engineer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Test Development Engineer salary in Swansea is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Development Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 2.51% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.69% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £43,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £42,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swansea. 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 Swansea with a recognized job title 260 42 182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 84.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 166 27 163
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,913 £30,344 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.80% -16.15% +10.42%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,857 £65,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £37,733 £43,072
% change year-on-year +19.26% -12.40% +5.69%

Test Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Development Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Test Development Engineer job vacancy trend in Swansea

Test Development Engineer
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for Test Development Engineer job vacancies in Swansea.

Salary distribution trend for Test Development Engineer job vacancies in Swansea

Test Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 5 June 2026, Test Development Engineer 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 Swansea region featuring Test Development Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 7 (100.00%) SDET
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) API Testing
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
3 1 (14.29%) Chaos Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Java

Test Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 3 (42.86%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Gatling
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
1 1 (14.29%) Pa11y
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
1 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 7 (100.00%) SDET
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) API Testing
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
3 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) OWASP
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
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