Compatibility Testing Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Compatibility Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Compatibility Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 567 559
Rank change year-on-year +54 -8 +192
Permanent jobs citing Compatibility Testing 3 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.017% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.019% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £41,575
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +15.61% -23.79%
75th Percentile £64,000 £52,500 £44,688
90th Percentile - - £44,725
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year - +16.28% -33.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Compatibility 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,312 32,109 29,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.70% 88.77% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 19,114 14,485 22,061
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Compatibility Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Compatibility Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Compatibility Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Compatibility Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compatibility Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compatibility Testing

Compatibility Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Compatibility Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Midlands - 1 £62,000 -
South East - 1 £62,000 -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £62,000 -
Compatibility Testing
UK

Compatibility Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (66.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft