Tester Jobs in the Thames Valley

Tester
South East > Thames Valley

The median Tester salary in the Thames Valley is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 166 234
Rank change year-on-year -8 +68 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 20 23 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.69% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 23
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,500 £37,500
25th Percentile - £47,625 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,000 - £68,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,250
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.02% +6.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,402 3,315 5,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.61% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,768 2,248 3,618
10th Percentile £33,125 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,913 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% -1.98% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the Thames Valley

Tester
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Tester in the Thames Valley

Tester
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Tester in the Thames Valley

Tester
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 Tester within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 +10 11 £50,000 -25.93% 2
Buckinghamshire -17 7 - - 3
Oxfordshire -11 2 £32,500 -35.00% 1
Tester
South East

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 December 2024, Tester 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 Thames Valley region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 12 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 11 (55.00%) API Testing
4 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (50.00%) Selenium
4 10 (50.00%) Scrum
4 10 (50.00%) Agile
5 9 (45.00%) Software Testing
6 7 (35.00%) DevOps
7 6 (30.00%) Apache Commons
7 6 (30.00%) Docker
7 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
7 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (30.00%) Code Quality
7 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
7 6 (30.00%) WireMock
7 6 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (30.00%) REST Assured
7 6 (30.00%) Playwright
7 6 (30.00%) SQL
7 6 (30.00%) JUnit
7 6 (30.00%) Linux
7 6 (30.00%) Apache
7 6 (30.00%) JIRA
7 6 (30.00%) TestNG
7 6 (30.00%) REST
7 6 (30.00%) WebDriver
7 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
7 6 (30.00%) BDD

Tester Skill Set
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 6 (30.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Selenium
2 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 6 (30.00%) JUnit
2 6 (30.00%) REST Assured
2 6 (30.00%) TestNG
2 6 (30.00%) WebDriver
3 5 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (25.00%) JMeter
3 5 (25.00%) Maven
3 5 (25.00%) Zephyr
4 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (10.00%) Appium
5 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Billing
2 5 (25.00%) Games
2 5 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Apache Commons
1 6 (30.00%) Guava
1 6 (30.00%) Java Concurrency
1 6 (30.00%) Playwright
1 6 (30.00%) REST
1 6 (30.00%) WireMock
2 5 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 5 (25.00%) Swagger
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) ADO
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (55.00%) API Testing
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Scrum
4 9 (45.00%) Software Testing
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 6 (30.00%) BDD
6 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (30.00%) Code Quality
6 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Analytics
7 5 (25.00%) B2B
7 5 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (25.00%) Data Analytics
7 5 (25.00%) Energy Management
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (25.00%) Groovy
4 4 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft