Software Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 161 66
Rank change year-on-year +10 -95 +18
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 819 1,294 2,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.11% 1.76% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.13% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 412 940 791
10th Percentile £31,300 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,560 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.12% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
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 Software Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Midlands +99 344 £44,750 -0.56% 299
West Midlands +102 226 £23,405 -47.99% 153
South East +1 203 £60,000 +25.00% 433
North of England -67 131 £57,560 +4.65% 323
East Midlands +65 118 £48,000 +1.77% 130
North West -74 84 £57,560 +4.65% 153
South West +40 54 £54,282 +8.56% 201
Yorkshire 0 41 £32,250 -41.36% 121
Scotland +36 39 £55,000 +22.22% 82
East of England -48 32 £53,000 -3.64% 210
Wales +18 15 £60,000 +26.32% 49
North East +34 6 £40,000 -27.27% 51
Northern Ireland +31 1 - - 35
Software Testing
UK

Software Testing
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 13 (1.59%) Confluence
2 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.49%) WinCC
4 3 (0.37%) Apache
4 3 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) CICS
6 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) JBoss
6 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 208 (25.40%) Simulink
2 7 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (6.35%) AWS
2 51 (6.23%) SaaS
3 37 (4.52%) Azure
4 21 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (1.95%) GCP
6 14 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (0.85%) Power Automate
7 7 (0.85%) Power Platform
8 6 (0.73%) GitHub
8 6 (0.73%) Serverless
9 3 (0.37%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (0.37%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.24%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.24%) Scribe Online
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.47%) LTE
2 11 (1.34%) 5G
2 11 (1.34%) Bluetooth
2 11 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (0.73%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.49%) Profibus
5 4 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.24%) Firewall
6 2 (0.24%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) BGP
7 1 (0.12%) DNS
7 1 (0.12%) GSM
7 1 (0.12%) HTTP
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.83%) OLTP
3 8 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 7 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.73%) MySQL
5 6 (0.73%) Power BI
5 6 (0.73%) Redis
6 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.49%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.24%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.24%) Metadata
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.24%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.12%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 67 (8.18%) JIRA
2 49 (5.98%) Git
3 45 (5.49%) Selenium
4 21 (2.56%) eggPlant
5 16 (1.95%) Cypress.io
6 14 (1.71%) MagicDraw
7 12 (1.47%) SpecFlow
8 11 (1.34%) Postman
9 10 (1.22%) Jenkins
10 9 (1.10%) Appium
11 7 (0.85%) JUnit
12 6 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.73%) JMeter
12 6 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.73%) SoapUI
12 6 (0.73%) TestRail
12 6 (0.73%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.49%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.49%) TestNG
General
1 258 (31.50%) Aerospace
2 207 (25.27%) Automotive
3 136 (16.61%) Social Skills
4 62 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.25%) Finance
6 27 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (2.08%) Electronics
8 17 (2.08%) Law
9 14 (1.71%) Banking
10 10 (1.22%) Legal
10 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.10%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.10%) Retail
12 8 (0.98%) Marketing
13 7 (0.85%) Games
13 7 (0.85%) Local Government
14 5 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (28.33%) Senior
2 206 (25.15%) Software Engineer
3 137 (16.73%) Principal Engineer
4 118 (14.41%) Systems Engineer
5 103 (12.58%) Senior Software Engineer
6 101 (12.33%) Development Engineer
6 101 (12.33%) Software Development Engineer
7 92 (11.23%) Lead
8 91 (11.11%) Test Engineer
9 71 (8.67%) Software Test Engineer
10 64 (7.81%) Principal Software Engineer
11 63 (7.69%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 62 (7.57%) Developer
13 60 (7.33%) Analyst
13 60 (7.33%) Senior Test Engineer
14 57 (6.96%) Senior Software Test Engineer
15 45 (5.49%) Test Analyst
16 38 (4.64%) Senior Developer
16 38 (4.64%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 37 (4.52%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.47%) .NET
2 34 (4.15%) XML
3 29 (3.54%) HTML
4 24 (2.93%) React
5 23 (2.81%) Node.js
6 22 (2.69%) ASP.NET
6 22 (2.69%) Playwright
7 21 (2.56%) SOAP
8 18 (2.20%) .NET Core
9 13 (1.59%) Kafka
9 13 (1.59%) Qt
10 12 (1.47%) CSS
11 11 (1.34%) REST
12 10 (1.22%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.85%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.85%) Middleware
14 6 (0.73%) Express.js
14 6 (0.73%) Web Services
15 5 (0.61%) ASP.NET Web API
15 5 (0.61%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.64%) Mobile App
2 31 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (1.95%) Acoustics
4 16 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (1.95%) Robotics
5 14 (1.71%) EPoS
6 12 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.34%) IoT
7 11 (1.34%) NB-IoT
7 11 (1.34%) SCADA
8 9 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 7 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.73%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.61%) FPGA
12 4 (0.49%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.49%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.96%) Linux
2 54 (6.59%) Windows
3 27 (3.30%) Android
4 15 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.22%) Unix
7 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (60.93%) Agile
2 342 (41.76%) Software Engineering
3 282 (34.43%) Validation
4 263 (32.11%) Test Automation
5 214 (26.13%) Systems Engineering
6 185 (22.59%) SDLC
7 158 (19.29%) Waterfall
8 149 (18.19%) Computer Science
9 112 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (11.48%) Mathematics
11 92 (11.23%) CI/CD
12 69 (8.42%) UML
13 68 (8.30%) Verification and Validation
14 65 (7.94%) Configuration Management
15 54 (6.59%) Regression Testing
16 53 (6.47%) Scrum
17 52 (6.35%) Code Quality
18 50 (6.11%) Manual Testing
19 47 (5.74%) DevOps
20 45 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 208 (25.40%) MATLAB
2 132 (16.12%) Python
3 107 (13.06%) Java
4 100 (12.21%) SQL
5 83 (10.13%) C#
6 69 (8.42%) JavaScript
7 62 (7.57%) C++
8 40 (4.88%) Rust
9 37 (4.52%) C
10 32 (3.91%) TypeScript
11 30 (3.66%) Ada
12 24 (2.93%) Bash
13 21 (2.56%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.59%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.34%) Fortran
16 7 (0.85%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.61%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.37%) Embedded C++
18 3 (0.37%) PHP
18 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 398 (48.60%) BPSS Clearance
2 313 (38.22%) Degree
3 44 (5.37%) ISTQB
4 34 (4.15%) Security Cleared
5 25 (3.05%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.71%) Chartered Engineer
8 14 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 11 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 11 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (1.34%) PhD
10 2 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.24%) CCNP
10 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.24%) CITP
10 2 (0.24%) ISEB
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.89%) QA
2 50 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 6 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.73%) Def Stans
4 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.37%) PMBOK
5 3 (0.37%) WCAG
6 2 (0.24%) GxP
6 2 (0.24%) SLA
7 1 (0.12%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.12%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (1.95%) Docker
2 12 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.34%) vSphere
4 6 (0.73%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.71%) Ansible
2 14 (1.71%) Terraform
3 12 (1.47%) Puppet
4 2 (0.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 87 (10.62%) Siemens
2 61 (7.45%) Microsoft
3 57 (6.96%) Oracle
4 22 (2.69%) VMware
5 21 (2.56%) Keysight
6 18 (2.20%) Zoho
7 8 (0.98%) UiPath
8 7 (0.85%) Google
9 6 (0.73%) Rockwell
9 6 (0.73%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.61%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.49%) Allen-Bradley
11 4 (0.49%) Xilinx
12 3 (0.37%) AVEVA
13 2 (0.24%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.24%) SAP
13 2 (0.24%) Splunk
13 2 (0.24%) Wonderware
14 1 (0.12%) Cisco
14 1 (0.12%) Sage