Exploratory Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 739 714
Rank change year-on-year +211 -25 -4
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 43 26 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.035% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.043% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 36 23 37
10th Percentile - - £35,700
25th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -27.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £70,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -18.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Exploratory 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory 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 Exploratory Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
North of England +52 19 £26,500 -41.11% 40
Yorkshire +75 18 £26,500 -41.11% 21
South West +120 7 £40,000 - 23
South East +94 7 £42,500 - 40
Scotland +124 5 £55,000 +57.14% 12
Midlands +63 5 £42,500 +6.25% 33
West Midlands +66 4 £42,500 +6.25% 16
North West -1 1 £28,000 -25.33% 14
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 12
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Moodle
1 1 (2.33%) Totara
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 19 (44.19%) SaaS
3 8 (18.60%) Azure
4 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (41.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Selenium
2 10 (23.26%) Cypress.io
3 7 (16.28%) Postman
4 6 (13.95%) TestComplete
5 4 (9.30%) JUnit
5 4 (9.30%) SpecFlow
5 4 (9.30%) TestNG
6 3 (6.98%) Appium
6 3 (6.98%) Git
6 3 (6.98%) LoadRunner
6 3 (6.98%) WebDriver
7 2 (4.65%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.65%) Gatling
7 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
7 2 (4.65%) Locust
7 2 (4.65%) TestRail
7 2 (4.65%) Zephyr
8 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.33%) JMeter
8 1 (2.33%) YouTrack
General
1 31 (72.09%) Social Skills
2 21 (48.84%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (41.86%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.98%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Games
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) IT Engineer
1 18 (41.86%) IT Support
1 18 (41.86%) IT Support Engineer
1 18 (41.86%) Support Engineer
2 16 (37.21%) Software Support Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) QA Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Test Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Software QA Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Test Automation Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Tester
5 4 (9.30%) QA Specialist
5 4 (9.30%) Software Tester
5 4 (9.30%) Test Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) QA Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) Playwright
2 3 (6.98%) .NET
3 2 (4.65%) OpenFin
4 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.33%) MERN Stack
4 1 (2.33%) React
4 1 (2.33%) Swagger
4 1 (2.33%) Vue
4 1 (2.33%) WebGL
4 1 (2.33%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 25 (58.14%) Mobile App
2 18 (41.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (53.49%) Windows
2 18 (41.86%) Android
3 4 (9.30%) Apple iOS
3 4 (9.30%) Linux
4 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (83.72%) Software Testing
2 29 (67.44%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (48.84%) Test Automation
4 18 (41.86%) Analytical Thinking
4 18 (41.86%) CRM
4 18 (41.86%) Customer Service
4 18 (41.86%) Data Privacy
4 18 (41.86%) Mathematics
4 18 (41.86%) Migration
5 16 (37.21%) Regression Testing
6 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.28%) DevOps
6 7 (16.28%) Manual Testing
6 7 (16.28%) SDLC
6 7 (16.28%) Test Strategy
7 6 (13.95%) Test Management
8 5 (11.63%) Functional Testing
8 5 (11.63%) Load Testing
8 5 (11.63%) Process Improvement
8 5 (11.63%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) JavaScript
2 10 (23.26%) Java
2 10 (23.26%) SQL
3 8 (18.60%) Python
4 4 (9.30%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) ISTQB
2 3 (6.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (44.19%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Microsoft
1 18 (41.86%) Zoho
2 1 (2.33%) UiPath