Software Testing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 79 42
Rank change year-on-year -43 -37 +55
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 131 232 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.95% 3.86% 6.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 4.08% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 107 115 136
10th Percentile £34,500 £28,372 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,125 £34,875 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,020 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -15.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £76,500 £76,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,697 5,690 6,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.80% 94.75% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,925 3,093 3,873
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -11 99 £58,000 +3.11% 16
Buckinghamshire -27 16 £49,000 +5.38% 8
Oxfordshire -30 16 £40,000 +10.34% 3
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.34%) Apache
2 6 (4.58%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) WinCC
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) Moodle
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.76%) Totara
Applications
1 15 (11.45%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.14%) AWS
2 22 (16.79%) Azure
3 20 (15.27%) GitHub
4 7 (5.34%) IaaS
5 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.58%) SaaS
6 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.53%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.76%) GCP
8 1 (0.76%) Serverless
8 1 (0.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) LAN
2 4 (3.05%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.29%) Network Security
4 2 (1.53%) Firewall
5 1 (0.76%) GPRS
5 1 (0.76%) MQTT
5 1 (0.76%) RS-232
5 1 (0.76%) RS-485
5 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.16%) OLTP
2 3 (2.29%) Power BI
2 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.53%) Big Data
3 2 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.45%) GitLab
2 15 (11.45%) Selenium
3 14 (10.69%) Cucumber
4 12 (9.16%) JIRA
5 11 (8.40%) Visual Studio
6 9 (6.87%) JUnit
7 8 (6.11%) REST Assured
7 8 (6.11%) TestNG
7 8 (6.11%) WebDriver
8 6 (4.58%) Bugzilla
8 6 (4.58%) Cypress.io
8 6 (4.58%) JMeter
8 6 (4.58%) Zephyr
9 5 (3.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.82%) Git
9 5 (3.82%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
10 4 (3.05%) SoapUI
11 3 (2.29%) Postman
General
1 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.16%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.58%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (3.82%) Marketing
6 3 (2.29%) Electronics
7 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Finance
8 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (22.14%) Developer
2 22 (16.79%) Senior
3 21 (16.03%) Software Engineer
4 13 (9.92%) Architect
4 13 (9.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (9.92%) Software Architect
5 12 (9.16%) Oracle Developer
5 12 (9.16%) Senior Developer
5 12 (9.16%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 12 (9.16%) Tester
6 11 (8.40%) Software Developer
6 11 (8.40%) Support Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Automation Tester
7 10 (7.63%) Desktop Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Desktop Support
7 10 (7.63%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 9 (6.87%) Developer in Test
9 8 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.21%) SOAP
2 14 (10.69%) Web Services
3 12 (9.16%) HTML
3 12 (9.16%) XML
4 8 (6.11%) REST
4 8 (6.11%) WireMock
5 7 (5.34%) Apache Commons
5 7 (5.34%) Guava
5 7 (5.34%) Java Concurrency
6 6 (4.58%) OpenMP
6 6 (4.58%) Playwright
7 4 (3.05%) EDI
7 4 (3.05%) RESTful
8 3 (2.29%) Middleware
9 2 (1.53%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.76%) Kafka
10 1 (0.76%) NumPy
10 1 (0.76%) Pandas
10 1 (0.76%) PyQt
10 1 (0.76%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) Product Ownership
2 13 (9.92%) Algorithms
3 11 (8.40%) Life Science
4 9 (6.87%) Driving Licence
4 9 (6.87%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.58%) Client/Server
5 6 (4.58%) CUDA
5 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.05%) Device Driver
7 3 (2.29%) SCADA
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Animation
9 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.76%) IoT
9 1 (0.76%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.76%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.24%) Linux
2 17 (12.98%) Windows
3 14 (10.69%) Unix
4 10 (7.63%) Windows 10
4 10 (7.63%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.53%) CentOS
5 2 (1.53%) Debian
5 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.46%) Agile
2 50 (38.17%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (25.19%) Computer Science
4 29 (22.14%) SDET
5 28 (21.37%) CI/CD
5 28 (21.37%) Test Automation
6 25 (19.08%) Software Engineering
7 24 (18.32%) Containerisation
7 24 (18.32%) Physics
8 23 (17.56%) DevOps
9 20 (15.27%) Open Source
10 15 (11.45%) Code Quality
11 14 (10.69%) Customer Service
12 13 (9.92%) Mathematics
12 13 (9.92%) SDLC
13 12 (9.16%) Software Deployment
13 12 (9.16%) Test Management
14 11 (8.40%) Monte Carlo Method
14 11 (8.40%) Scrum
14 11 (8.40%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.35%) Python
2 36 (27.48%) SQL
3 27 (20.61%) C++
4 24 (18.32%) Fortran
5 23 (17.56%) Java
6 20 (15.27%) JavaScript
7 19 (14.50%) Bash
8 18 (13.74%) C
9 15 (11.45%) C#
10 14 (10.69%) PL/SQL
11 12 (9.16%) Groovy
12 6 (4.58%) Perl
12 6 (4.58%) Ruby
12 6 (4.58%) TypeScript
13 4 (3.05%) Embedded C
13 4 (3.05%) Embedded C++
13 4 (3.05%) PHP
14 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 58 (44.27%) Security Cleared
2 47 (35.88%) Degree
3 22 (16.79%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.92%) PhD
5 11 (8.40%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (6.11%) Master's Degree
8 6 (4.58%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.53%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.76%) ISEB
10 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) QA
2 5 (3.82%) SLA
3 2 (1.53%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) JTAG
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (19.85%) Docker
2 18 (13.74%) Firmware
3 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.69%) Terraform
3 10 (7.63%) SCCM
4 5 (3.82%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (3.05%) Ansible
6 3 (2.29%) Wonderware InTouch
7 2 (1.53%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.76%) Grafana
8 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.45%) HP
2 15 (11.45%) Oracle
3 3 (2.29%) AVEVA
3 3 (2.29%) Rockwell
3 3 (2.29%) Siemens
3 3 (2.29%) Wonderware
4 2 (1.53%) Acronis
4 2 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.53%) WatchGuard
5 1 (0.76%) Google
5 1 (0.76%) SAP
5 1 (0.76%) Talend