Senior Software Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Software Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 759 707
Rank change year-on-year +239 -52 +133
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Test Engineer 59 4 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.006% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.006% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 58 4 4
10th Percentile £51,250 £38,975 -
25th Percentile - £40,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -26.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile - £54,688 £72,500
90th Percentile - £63,125 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £46,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.73% -33.93% +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Senior Software Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Software Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Test Engineer
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 Senior Software Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +149 50 £60,000 +31.87% 2
Wales - 8 £60,000 -
Scotland - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Software Test Engineer
UK

Senior Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Senior Software Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 57 (96.61%) Test Automation
3 52 (88.14%) Validation
3 52 (88.14%) Verification and Validation
4 51 (86.44%) Degree
5 50 (84.75%) Agile
5 50 (84.75%) Computer Science
5 50 (84.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 50 (84.75%) UML
5 50 (84.75%) Configuration Management
5 50 (84.75%) Waterfall
6 46 (77.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (61.02%) Code Quality
8 14 (23.73%) Ada
9 7 (11.86%) Test Strategy
10 6 (10.17%) SpecFlow
10 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
10 6 (10.17%) SDLC
10 6 (10.17%) API Testing
10 6 (10.17%) GraphQL
10 6 (10.17%) Scenario Testing
10 6 (10.17%) Regression Testing
10 6 (10.17%) Selenium
10 6 (10.17%) Test Scripting
10 6 (10.17%) System Testing
10 6 (10.17%) Git
11 4 (6.78%) C#
12 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
12 3 (5.08%) CI/CD
13 2 (3.39%) C

Senior Software Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Git
1 6 (10.17%) Selenium
1 6 (10.17%) SpecFlow
2 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) LabVIEW
General
1 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (1.69%) Automotive
1 1 (1.69%) Avionics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 57 (96.61%) Test Automation
3 52 (88.14%) Validation
3 52 (88.14%) Verification and Validation
4 50 (84.75%) Agile
4 50 (84.75%) Computer Science
4 50 (84.75%) Configuration Management
4 50 (84.75%) UML
4 50 (84.75%) Waterfall
5 36 (61.02%) Code Quality
6 7 (11.86%) Test Strategy
7 6 (10.17%) API Testing
7 6 (10.17%) Regression Testing
7 6 (10.17%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (10.17%) SDLC
7 6 (10.17%) System Testing
7 6 (10.17%) Test Scripting
8 3 (5.08%) CI/CD
9 1 (1.69%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 1 (1.69%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) Ada
2 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
3 4 (6.78%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) C
4 2 (3.39%) Python
5 1 (1.69%) C++
5 1 (1.69%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 51 (86.44%) Degree
2 46 (77.97%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (84.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (1.69%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (1.69%) NIST
2 1 (1.69%) NIST 800