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 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 692 643
Rank change year-on-year +215 -49 +124
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 96 67 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.094% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.100% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 70 44 49
10th Percentile £48,175 £40,000 £43,397
25th Percentile £51,563 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -22.41% +17.17%
75th Percentile - £59,248 £72,500
90th Percentile - £62,847 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £57,197
% change year-on-year +33.33% -21.32% -4.67%

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 35,390 67,294 53,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 94.80% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,871 47,619 30,421
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -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 11 May 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 11 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 +145 63 £60,000 +33.33% 11
Wales +42 10 £60,000 +48.50%
East of England +39 8 £39,000 -13.33% 11
South West +106 4 £52,500 +2.69% 8
North of England +58 4 £43,750 -24.52% 12
North West +2 4 £43,750 -12.90% 3
Scotland +118 3 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Midlands +57 3 £50,000 +5.26% 5
East Midlands +46 3 £50,000 -20.00% 3
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 11 May 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 73 (76.04%) Degree
2 69 (71.88%) Test Automation
3 64 (66.67%) Software Testing
4 54 (56.25%) Validation
4 54 (56.25%) Verification and Validation
5 53 (55.21%) Agile
6 50 (52.08%) Computer Science
6 50 (52.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 50 (52.08%) Configuration Management
6 50 (52.08%) UML
6 50 (52.08%) Waterfall
7 46 (47.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (38.54%) Code Quality
9 27 (28.13%) Manufacturing
10 24 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 22 (22.92%) Mentoring
12 21 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
13 20 (20.83%) Coaching
13 20 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (20.83%) Safety Engineering
14 14 (14.58%) Ada
15 12 (12.50%) Test Strategy
16 11 (11.46%) Software Engineering
17 10 (10.42%) Test Scripting
18 9 (9.38%) SDLC
18 9 (9.38%) C#
18 9 (9.38%) Regression Testing
19 8 (8.33%) LabVIEW
19 8 (8.33%) API Testing
20 7 (7.29%) TypeScript

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 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.17%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.04%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.08%) Azure
1 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) LabVIEW
2 7 (7.29%) Selenium
3 6 (6.25%) Git
3 6 (6.25%) SpecFlow
4 4 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.08%) Postman
5 2 (2.08%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.08%) TestRail
6 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (28.13%) Manufacturing
2 20 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.13%) Electronics
3 3 (3.13%) Games
3 3 (3.13%) Retail
4 2 (2.08%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.04%) Automotive
5 1 (1.04%) Avionics
5 1 (1.04%) Billing
5 1 (1.04%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 2 (2.08%) ADO
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Analogue Electronics
2 3 (3.13%) Online Games
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (71.88%) Test Automation
2 64 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 54 (56.25%) Validation
3 54 (56.25%) Verification and Validation
4 53 (55.21%) Agile
5 50 (52.08%) Computer Science
5 50 (52.08%) Configuration Management
5 50 (52.08%) UML
5 50 (52.08%) Waterfall
6 37 (38.54%) Code Quality
7 22 (22.92%) Mentoring
8 20 (20.83%) Coaching
8 20 (20.83%) Safety Engineering
9 12 (12.50%) Test Strategy
10 11 (11.46%) Software Engineering
11 10 (10.42%) Test Scripting
12 9 (9.38%) Regression Testing
12 9 (9.38%) SDLC
13 8 (8.33%) API Testing
14 7 (7.29%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.58%) Ada
2 9 (9.38%) C#
3 7 (7.29%) Python
3 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.25%) C
5 5 (5.21%) Embedded C
6 2 (2.08%) C++
7 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (76.04%) Degree
2 46 (47.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.08%) CCA
3 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (52.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 7 (7.29%) QA
3 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.04%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.08%) Mentor Graphics