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 £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 September 2024.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 572 751
Rank change year-on-year -19 +179 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 77 47 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49 34 48
10th Percentile £40,646 £42,475 £42,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +16.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,741 - £63,750
UK median annual salary £51,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.58% - +9.09%

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 56,203 37,095 69,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 92.58% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 32,497 25,270 42,363
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 7 September 2024.

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 7 September 2024. 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 -4 35 £52,500 -25.00% 6
East of England - 11 £50,000 - 2
North of England 0 8 £57,965 +8.85% 1
West Midlands -5 8 £47,500 -
Midlands -25 8 £47,500 -
Scotland -30 6 £43,000 -28.33% 4
Wales +34 5 £40,808 -1.67%
Yorkshire +32 5 £57,965 +15.93% 1
South West -18 4 £52,500 -4.55% 1
North East -17 2 £57,965 +2.59%
North West -21 1 £42,500 -51.43%
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 7 September 2024, 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 29 (37.66%) Test Automation
2 18 (23.38%) Software Testing
2 18 (23.38%) Selenium
3 17 (22.08%) Agile
4 16 (20.78%) Java
4 16 (20.78%) DevOps
5 15 (19.48%) Military
6 13 (16.88%) Non-Functional Testing
7 12 (15.58%) Test Scripting
7 12 (15.58%) SQL
8 11 (14.29%) Manufacturing
8 11 (14.29%) Scrum
8 11 (14.29%) QA
8 11 (14.29%) AWS
8 11 (14.29%) Social Skills
9 10 (12.99%) Azure
9 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
9 10 (12.99%) C#
10 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
10 9 (11.69%) Python
10 9 (11.69%) Regression Testing
10 9 (11.69%) JIRA
10 9 (11.69%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
11 8 (10.39%) Cypress.io
11 8 (10.39%) Test Strategy
11 8 (10.39%) Accessibility
11 8 (10.39%) Postman
12 7 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
12 7 (9.09%) Embedded Systems

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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Simulink
1 1 (1.30%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) AWS
2 10 (12.99%) Azure
3 5 (6.49%) GCP
4 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.60%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.30%) Firebase
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (2.60%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.49%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (23.38%) Selenium
2 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.69%) JIRA
4 8 (10.39%) Cypress.io
4 8 (10.39%) Postman
5 7 (9.09%) GitLab
5 7 (9.09%) JMeter
6 6 (7.79%) Gatling
6 6 (7.79%) REST Assured
7 5 (6.49%) MSTest
7 5 (6.49%) SoapUI
8 4 (5.19%) Git
8 4 (5.19%) TestRail
9 3 (3.90%) LabVIEW
10 2 (2.60%) SpecFlow
11 1 (1.30%) Appium
11 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.30%) Robot Framework
11 1 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (19.48%) Military
2 11 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 11 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Retail
4 4 (5.19%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.90%) Aviation
5 3 (3.90%) Electronics
6 2 (2.60%) Automotive
6 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Avionics
7 1 (1.30%) Finance
7 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) JSON
1 5 (6.49%) Playwright
1 5 (6.49%) REST
1 5 (6.49%) SOAP
1 5 (6.49%) XML
2 3 (3.90%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.30%) pytest
3 1 (1.30%) Swagger
3 1 (1.30%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (6.49%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.19%) IoT
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Android
1 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.30%) Linux
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
1 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Test Automation
2 18 (23.38%) Software Testing
3 17 (22.08%) Agile
4 16 (20.78%) DevOps
5 13 (16.88%) Non-Functional Testing
6 12 (15.58%) Test Scripting
7 11 (14.29%) Scrum
8 9 (11.69%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (11.69%) Regression Testing
9 8 (10.39%) Test Strategy
10 7 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
11 6 (7.79%) Agile Testing
11 6 (7.79%) API Testing
11 6 (7.79%) Build Automation
11 6 (7.79%) Coaching
11 6 (7.79%) Context-Driven Testing
11 6 (7.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 6 (7.79%) Mentoring
11 6 (7.79%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (7.79%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.78%) Java
2 12 (15.58%) SQL
3 10 (12.99%) C#
4 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.69%) Python
5 6 (7.79%) C
6 5 (6.49%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.90%) C++
8 1 (1.30%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.30%) Groovy
8 1 (1.30%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.49%) ISTQB
3 4 (5.19%) Degree
3 4 (5.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.60%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.29%) QA
2 8 (10.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (1.30%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.30%) MISRA
3 1 (1.30%) MISRA C
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Functional Safety
1 1 (1.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (7.79%) Google
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.30%) EMC