Senior Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 684 634
Rank change year-on-year +187 -50 +153
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 90 83 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66 53 47
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,162 £43,298
25th Percentile £59,813 £42,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,750 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.60% -14.22% +18.37%
75th Percentile - £55,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £60,741 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -15.25% -1.67%

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 35,966 74,777 49,495
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 95.01% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18,509 52,252 29,313
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +5.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +120 61 £60,000 +26.32% 10
East of England +33 8 £39,000 -22.00% 23
Wales +42 7 £60,000 +48.50%
South West +110 4 £52,500 - 6
Scotland +99 4 £60,000 +33.33% 7
North of England +59 3 £42,500 -26.68% 11
North West +3 3 £42,500 -26.68% 1
Midlands +81 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Senior Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2025, Senior 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (80.00%) Degree
2 63 (70.00%) Test Automation
3 59 (65.56%) Software Testing
4 53 (58.89%) Verification and Validation
4 53 (58.89%) Validation
5 51 (56.67%) Agile
6 49 (54.44%) Computer Science
6 49 (54.44%) Waterfall
6 49 (54.44%) UML
6 49 (54.44%) Configuration Management
7 42 (46.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 38 (42.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (32.22%) Code Quality
10 26 (28.89%) Manufacturing
11 22 (24.44%) Microsoft
12 20 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
12 20 (22.22%) Safety Engineering
12 20 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (22.22%) Mentoring
12 20 (22.22%) Coaching
13 14 (15.56%) Ada
14 9 (10.00%) Test Strategy
15 8 (8.89%) LabVIEW
15 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
16 7 (7.78%) Unit Testing
16 7 (7.78%) Integration Testing
16 7 (7.78%) Numerate Degree
16 7 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (7.78%) System Integration Testing
16 7 (7.78%) SDLC

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.44%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.11%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) LabVIEW
2 5 (5.56%) Selenium
3 4 (4.44%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.44%) Git
3 4 (4.44%) JIRA
3 4 (4.44%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.22%) TestRail
5 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (28.89%) Manufacturing
2 20 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (3.33%) Electronics
3 3 (3.33%) Games
3 3 (3.33%) Retail
4 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.11%) Automotive
4 1 (1.11%) Avionics
4 1 (1.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Analogue Electronics
2 3 (3.33%) Online Games
3 1 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 59 (65.56%) Software Testing
3 53 (58.89%) Validation
3 53 (58.89%) Verification and Validation
4 51 (56.67%) Agile
5 49 (54.44%) Computer Science
5 49 (54.44%) Configuration Management
5 49 (54.44%) UML
5 49 (54.44%) Waterfall
6 29 (32.22%) Code Quality
7 20 (22.22%) Coaching
7 20 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 20 (22.22%) Safety Engineering
8 9 (10.00%) Test Strategy
9 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
10 7 (7.78%) Integration Testing
10 7 (7.78%) SDLC
10 7 (7.78%) System Integration Testing
10 7 (7.78%) Unit Testing
11 6 (6.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.56%) Ada
2 6 (6.67%) C
2 6 (6.67%) C#
2 6 (6.67%) Python
3 5 (5.56%) Embedded C
3 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.11%) C++
4 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (80.00%) Degree
2 38 (42.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.78%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (46.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 4 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.11%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.33%) Mentor Graphics