Senior Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 745 730 775
Rank change year-on-year -15 +45 -171
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester 16 21 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.035% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.039% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 60
10th Percentile £39,918 £40,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,563 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £62,813 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £64,625 £81,250 £68,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +36.36% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,781 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,253 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
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 Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Midlands +3 5 £57,500 -4.17%
North of England +44 4 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North West +14 4 £42,500 -5.56%
East Midlands -14 3 £57,500 +27.78%
West Midlands +17 2 £45,000 -35.71%
South East +15 2 £60,000 -22.58% 2
South West -30 2 £44,674 -0.73%
Scotland - 2 £65,000 - 1
Wales - 1 - - 1
Senior Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (56.25%) Software Testing
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Selenium
4 6 (37.50%) QA
5 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
5 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
6 4 (25.00%) Postman
6 4 (25.00%) SpecFlow
6 4 (25.00%) User Stories
6 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) JIRA
6 4 (25.00%) JMeter
6 4 (25.00%) Scrum
6 4 (25.00%) SOAP
7 3 (18.75%) Information Security
7 3 (18.75%) Test Management
7 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
7 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Gherkin
7 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Prototyping
8 2 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
8 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering

Senior Tester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Selenium
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) JMeter
2 4 (25.00%) Postman
2 4 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (12.50%) Appium
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 2 (12.50%) SoapUI
3 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (6.25%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) SOAP
2 3 (18.75%) Gherkin
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Software Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) User Stories
5 3 (18.75%) Information Security
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Test Management
5 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
6 2 (12.50%) BDD
6 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (12.50%) Security Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) C#
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) Ruby
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA