Data-Driven Testing Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Testing
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 - 744
Rank change year-on-year - - -57
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 2 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% - 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile - - £26,250
25th Percentile £47,500 - £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £64,387
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.94%
75th Percentile £52,500 - £70,000
90th Percentile - - £73,887
UK median annual salary £48,750 - £65,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data-Driven 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 45,972 26,895 61,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.59% 91.29% 80.59%
Number of salaries quoted 31,834 13,584 43,167
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Data-Driven Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data-Driven Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data-Driven Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data-Driven Testing

Data-Driven 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 Data-Driven Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 - 2 £50,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £50,000 -
Data-Driven Testing
UK

Data-Driven 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA