End-to-End Testing Job Trends in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 447 482
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 -39
Permanent jobs citing End-to-End Testing 85 116 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.36% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 62 64 40
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £41,475
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £44,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +7.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £74,066 £78,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £90,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.08% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

End-to-End 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 33,256 32,348 28,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.02% 88.54% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19,033 14,675 21,473
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 £66,778
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%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

End-to-End Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing End-to-End Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing End-to-End Testing

End-to-End Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End 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 End-to-End Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 +33 25 £35,000 -37.78% 17
South East +19 24 £67,500 +8.00% 46
West Midlands +36 19 £43,875 -23.70% 7
North of England +8 16 £60,000 -4.00% 23
South West +7 11 £62,500 -7.41% 20
North West +17 10 £60,000 -4.00% 10
East Midlands +4 6 £35,000 -36.36% 10
Yorkshire -18 4 £53,500 +64.69% 10
Northern Ireland -5 3 £77,217 - 3
East of England +24 2 £80,000 +10.34% 20
Wales +5 2 £73,648 +137.57% 6
Scotland -22 2 £73,648 +22.75% 4
North East - 2 £73,648 - 3
End-to-End Testing
UK

End-to-End 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.53%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.35%) Adobe XD
3 2 (2.35%) Sketch
4 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (10.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (16.47%) SaaS
3 12 (14.12%) Azure
3 12 (14.12%) PaaS
4 9 (10.59%) AWS
5 6 (7.06%) Datadog
5 6 (7.06%) dbt
5 6 (7.06%) OCI
6 3 (3.53%) GitHub
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.35%) Figma
7 2 (2.35%) GCP
7 2 (2.35%) Google Play
7 2 (2.35%) iPaaS
7 2 (2.35%) Slack
8 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.65%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.35%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.35%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (2.35%) Metadata
3 2 (2.35%) Tableau
4 1 (1.18%) Power BI
4 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (22.35%) JIRA
2 9 (10.59%) eCATT
2 9 (10.59%) JMeter
3 8 (9.41%) Selenium
4 6 (7.06%) Cucumber
4 6 (7.06%) GitLab
4 6 (7.06%) Locust
5 5 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.71%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.35%) Checkstyle
7 2 (2.35%) ESLint
7 2 (2.35%) Gradle
7 2 (2.35%) JUnit
7 2 (2.35%) Maven
7 2 (2.35%) Mockito
7 2 (2.35%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.35%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.35%) TestNG
General
1 27 (31.76%) Finance
2 22 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (22.35%) Social Skills
4 14 (16.47%) Marketing
5 12 (14.12%) Manufacturing
6 10 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (11.76%) Law
7 9 (10.59%) Legal
7 9 (10.59%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.71%) Electronics
9 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.35%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.18%) Advertising
11 1 (1.18%) Banking
11 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (31.76%) Lead
2 26 (30.59%) Analyst
3 16 (18.82%) Test Leader
4 15 (17.65%) Support Analyst
5 14 (16.47%) Oracle Analyst
5 14 (16.47%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 12 (14.12%) Test Engineer
7 11 (12.94%) Senior
8 10 (11.76%) Junior
8 10 (11.76%) Junior Analyst
8 10 (11.76%) Junior Support Analyst
8 10 (11.76%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
8 10 (11.76%) Oracle Payroll Support
9 9 (10.59%) Automation Test Analyst
9 9 (10.59%) Automation Test Lead
9 9 (10.59%) Test Analyst
10 8 (9.41%) Developer
11 6 (7.06%) Lead Product Manager
11 6 (7.06%) Product Manager
12 5 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) .NET
2 6 (7.06%) Gherkin
3 5 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 5 (5.88%) Akka
3 5 (5.88%) Akka.NET
3 5 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (5.88%) Middleware
3 5 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.71%) React
4 4 (4.71%) REST
5 3 (3.53%) CSS
5 3 (3.53%) Kafka
5 3 (3.53%) Next.js
5 3 (3.53%) RESTful
5 3 (3.53%) SOAP
5 3 (3.53%) Spring
5 3 (3.53%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.35%) Framer.js
6 2 (2.35%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.35%) Animation
3 2 (2.35%) IoT
3 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.35%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.18%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Android
2 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) Test Automation
2 39 (45.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (41.18%) Agile
4 30 (35.29%) DevOps
5 27 (31.76%) CI/CD
6 21 (24.71%) Validation
7 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (22.35%) Test Strategy
9 17 (20.00%) Manual Testing
9 17 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 17 (20.00%) Test Scripting
10 15 (17.65%) Containerisation
10 15 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
10 15 (17.65%) ERP
10 15 (17.65%) Product Roadmap
10 15 (17.65%) Regression Testing
11 14 (16.47%) Test Management
12 13 (15.29%) Security Testing
13 12 (14.12%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (12.94%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.18%) SQL
2 17 (20.00%) Python
3 14 (16.47%) Java
4 9 (10.59%) C#
5 7 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.71%) Bash
6 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.53%) Erlang
8 2 (2.35%) Scala
9 1 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.71%) Degree
4 4 (4.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.82%) QA
2 10 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (7.06%) WCAG
4 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (14.12%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) Terminal Server
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (14.12%) Kubernetes
1 12 (14.12%) Terraform
2 10 (11.76%) Grafana
3 9 (10.59%) HP ALM
4 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.53%) HP Fortify
6 2 (2.35%) Control-M
6 2 (2.35%) Nessus
6 2 (2.35%) SCCM
6 2 (2.35%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (23.53%) Oracle
2 9 (10.59%) HP
2 9 (10.59%) SAP
3 4 (4.71%) Google
3 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) Apple
5 2 (2.35%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.35%) Splunk
5 2 (2.35%) VMware
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco
6 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.18%) Juniper
6 1 (1.18%) McAfee
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft