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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 443 491
Rank change year-on-year +15 +48 -54
Permanent jobs citing End-to-End Testing 82 116 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.36% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 60 65 41
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £74,066 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,224 £84,500 £90,000
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 33,001 32,118 30,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.62% 88.87% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 14,487 22,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
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 11 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 11 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 +35 24 £35,000 -37.78% 32
South East +22 21 £67,500 +9.76% 69
West Midlands +45 18 £43,875 -23.70% 11
North of England +7 16 £60,000 -4.00% 40
South West +4 12 £66,250 -1.85% 34
North West +17 10 £60,000 -4.00% 13
East Midlands -4 6 £35,000 -36.36% 20
Yorkshire -22 4 £53,500 +64.69% 22
Northern Ireland -8 3 £77,217 - 5
East of England +12 2 £80,000 +10.34% 35
Wales 0 2 £73,648 +137.57% 10
Scotland -16 2 £73,648 +22.75% 6
North East - 2 £73,648 - 5
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 (3.66%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.44%) Adobe XD
3 2 (2.44%) Sketch
4 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (10.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.07%) SaaS
2 13 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (14.63%) PaaS
4 10 (12.20%) AWS
4 10 (12.20%) Azure
5 6 (7.32%) Datadog
5 6 (7.32%) dbt
6 5 (6.10%) OCI
7 3 (3.66%) GitHub
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.44%) Figma
8 2 (2.44%) GCP
8 2 (2.44%) Google Play
8 2 (2.44%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.44%) Slack
9 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.07%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.44%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.44%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (2.44%) Metadata
3 2 (2.44%) Tableau
4 1 (1.22%) Power BI
4 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (23.17%) JIRA
2 9 (10.98%) eCATT
2 9 (10.98%) JMeter
3 8 (9.76%) Selenium
4 6 (7.32%) Cucumber
4 6 (7.32%) GitLab
4 6 (7.32%) Locust
5 5 (6.10%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.88%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.88%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.44%) Checkstyle
7 2 (2.44%) ESLint
7 2 (2.44%) Gradle
7 2 (2.44%) JUnit
7 2 (2.44%) Maven
7 2 (2.44%) Mockito
7 2 (2.44%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.44%) TestNG
7 2 (2.44%) TestRail
General
1 25 (30.49%) Finance
2 21 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.85%) Marketing
5 12 (14.63%) Manufacturing
6 10 (12.20%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (12.20%) Law
7 9 (10.98%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (7.32%) Legal
9 4 (4.88%) Electronics
9 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.44%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.22%) Advertising
11 1 (1.22%) Banking
11 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (30.49%) Analyst
1 25 (30.49%) Lead
2 14 (17.07%) Oracle Analyst
2 14 (17.07%) Oracle Support Analyst
2 14 (17.07%) Support Analyst
2 14 (17.07%) Test Leader
3 12 (14.63%) Test Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Senior
5 10 (12.20%) Junior
5 10 (12.20%) Junior Analyst
5 10 (12.20%) Junior Support Analyst
5 10 (12.20%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
5 10 (12.20%) Oracle Payroll Support
6 9 (10.98%) Automation Test Analyst
6 9 (10.98%) Test Analyst
7 8 (9.76%) Developer
8 7 (8.54%) Automation Test Lead
9 6 (7.32%) Lead Product Manager
9 6 (7.32%) Product Manager
10 5 (6.10%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) .NET
2 6 (7.32%) Gherkin
3 5 (6.10%) .NET Core
3 5 (6.10%) Akka
3 5 (6.10%) Akka.NET
3 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (6.10%) Middleware
3 5 (6.10%) React
4 4 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.88%) Next.js
4 4 (4.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (4.88%) REST
4 4 (4.88%) RESTful
5 3 (3.66%) CSS
5 3 (3.66%) Kafka
5 3 (3.66%) SOAP
5 3 (3.66%) Spring
5 3 (3.66%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.44%) JSON
6 2 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.44%) Animation
3 2 (2.44%) IoT
3 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.22%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Android
2 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (51.22%) Test Automation
2 36 (43.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (39.02%) Agile
4 29 (35.37%) DevOps
5 26 (31.71%) CI/CD
6 21 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (25.61%) Validation
7 17 (20.73%) Roadmaps
7 17 (20.73%) Test Strategy
8 16 (19.51%) Manual Testing
9 15 (18.29%) Containerisation
9 15 (18.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (18.29%) ERP
9 15 (18.29%) Product Roadmap
9 15 (18.29%) Test Scripting
10 14 (17.07%) Test Management
11 13 (15.85%) Regression Testing
11 13 (15.85%) Security Testing
12 12 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (13.41%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.73%) Python
1 17 (20.73%) SQL
2 14 (17.07%) Java
3 8 (9.76%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.54%) C#
5 4 (4.88%) Bash
5 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.66%) Erlang
7 2 (2.44%) Scala
8 1 (1.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (3.66%) Degree
6 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.07%) QA
2 10 (12.20%) Accessibility
3 6 (7.32%) WCAG
4 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (14.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (14.63%) Kubernetes
1 12 (14.63%) Terraform
2 10 (12.20%) Grafana
3 9 (10.98%) HP ALM
4 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.66%) HP Fortify
6 2 (2.44%) Control-M
6 2 (2.44%) Nessus
7 1 (1.22%) SCCM
7 1 (1.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Oracle
2 9 (10.98%) HP
2 9 (10.98%) SAP
3 4 (4.88%) Google
3 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.66%) IBM
5 2 (2.44%) Apple
5 2 (2.44%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.44%) Splunk
6 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.22%) VMware