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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 629 583
Rank change year-on-year +96 -46 +238
Permanent jobs citing Compatibility Testing 3 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.007% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.009% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -20.00% +28.87%
75th Percentile £64,000 £52,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £56,000 £76,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -26.32% +21.60% -5.15%

All Process and 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 29,785 43,415 32,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.72% 78.53% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 16,122 23,546 23,598
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Compatibility Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Compatibility Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Compatibility Testing 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 17 September 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
Midlands - 1 £62,000 - 17
South East - 1 £62,000 - 15
South West - 1 - - 12
West Midlands - 1 £62,000 - 10
Compatibility Testing
UK

Compatibility Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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%) 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