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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 158 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 -86 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 846 1,337 2,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.13% 1.79% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.17% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 429 940 784
10th Percentile £30,175 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,785 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,560 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.12% -9.09% +1.38%

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 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 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 31 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 +92 354 £45,000 - 107
West Midlands +93 230 £19,202 -57.33% 59
South East -3 203 £60,000 +22.45% 166
North of England -72 135 £57,560 +4.65% 106
East Midlands +64 124 £48,000 -2.69% 45
North West -71 88 £57,560 +4.65% 59
South West +51 68 £56,000 +12.00% 88
Yorkshire -7 41 £32,250 -41.36% 32
Scotland +35 40 £55,000 +22.22% 33
East of England -50 29 £53,000 -3.64% 48
Wales +11 16 £60,000 +26.32% 17
North East +35 6 £40,000 -27.27% 16
Northern Ireland +29 1 - - 18
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 14 (1.65%) Appian
2 13 (1.54%) Confluence
3 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.47%) WinCC
5 3 (0.35%) Apache
5 3 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) CICS
7 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 208 (24.59%) Simulink
2 7 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) 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 53 (6.26%) AWS
2 51 (6.03%) SaaS
3 38 (4.49%) Azure
4 21 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (1.89%) GCP
6 14 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (0.83%) Power Automate
7 7 (0.83%) Power Platform
8 6 (0.71%) Serverless
9 5 (0.59%) GitHub
10 3 (0.35%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (0.35%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.24%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.24%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.24%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.24%) Scribe Online
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.42%) LTE
2 11 (1.30%) 5G
2 11 (1.30%) Bluetooth
2 11 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (0.59%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.47%) Profibus
4 4 (0.47%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.24%) Firewall
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) BGP
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) GSM
6 1 (0.12%) HTTP
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.77%) OLTP
3 9 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 7 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.83%) Redis
5 6 (0.71%) MySQL
5 6 (0.71%) Power BI
6 5 (0.59%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.47%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.35%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
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%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.12%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 69 (8.16%) JIRA
2 49 (5.79%) Git
3 44 (5.20%) Selenium
4 21 (2.48%) eggPlant
5 17 (2.01%) Cypress.io
6 14 (1.65%) MagicDraw
7 12 (1.42%) Postman
7 12 (1.42%) SpecFlow
8 10 (1.18%) Jenkins
9 9 (1.06%) Appium
10 6 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.71%) JMeter
10 6 (0.71%) JUnit
10 6 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.71%) SoapUI
10 6 (0.71%) TestRail
10 6 (0.71%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.47%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.47%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.35%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 258 (30.50%) Aerospace
2 207 (24.47%) Automotive
3 139 (16.43%) Social Skills
4 63 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.38%) Finance
6 27 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (2.01%) Electronics
9 15 (1.77%) Banking
9 15 (1.77%) Law
10 10 (1.18%) Legal
10 10 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.06%) Retail
12 8 (0.95%) Marketing
12 8 (0.95%) Public Sector
13 7 (0.83%) Games
13 7 (0.83%) Local Government
14 5 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 241 (28.49%) Senior
2 206 (24.35%) Software Engineer
3 137 (16.19%) Principal Engineer
4 118 (13.95%) Systems Engineer
5 103 (12.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 101 (11.94%) Development Engineer
6 101 (11.94%) Software Development Engineer
7 92 (10.87%) Lead
8 91 (10.76%) Test Engineer
9 79 (9.34%) Developer
10 71 (8.39%) Software Test Engineer
11 64 (7.57%) Principal Software Engineer
12 63 (7.45%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 60 (7.09%) Analyst
13 60 (7.09%) Senior Test Engineer
14 57 (6.74%) Senior Software Test Engineer
15 47 (5.56%) Senior Developer
16 45 (5.32%) Test Analyst
17 38 (4.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 37 (4.37%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.15%) .NET
2 33 (3.90%) XML
3 32 (3.78%) HTML
4 26 (3.07%) React
5 24 (2.84%) Node.js
6 23 (2.72%) Playwright
7 21 (2.48%) ASP.NET
7 21 (2.48%) SOAP
8 17 (2.01%) .NET Core
9 14 (1.65%) CSS
10 13 (1.54%) Kafka
10 13 (1.54%) Qt
11 10 (1.18%) GraphQL
11 10 (1.18%) REST
12 7 (0.83%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.83%) Middleware
13 6 (0.71%) Express.js
13 6 (0.71%) Web Services
14 5 (0.59%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (0.59%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.37%) Mobile App
2 31 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (1.89%) Acoustics
4 16 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
5 14 (1.65%) EPoS
6 13 (1.54%) Algorithms
6 13 (1.54%) Robotics
6 13 (1.54%) SCADA
7 11 (1.30%) IoT
7 11 (1.30%) NB-IoT
8 9 (1.06%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 7 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.59%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.59%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.59%) FPGA
11 4 (0.47%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.47%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.86%) Linux
2 53 (6.26%) Windows
3 27 (3.19%) Android
4 15 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.18%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (62.06%) Agile
2 351 (41.49%) Software Engineering
3 281 (33.22%) Validation
4 264 (31.21%) Test Automation
5 214 (25.30%) Systems Engineering
6 208 (24.59%) SDLC
7 181 (21.39%) Waterfall
8 150 (17.73%) Computer Science
9 116 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (11.11%) Mathematics
11 93 (10.99%) CI/CD
12 81 (9.57%) UML
13 68 (8.04%) Verification and Validation
14 65 (7.68%) Configuration Management
15 59 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (6.50%) Scrum
17 54 (6.38%) Regression Testing
18 52 (6.15%) Code Quality
19 51 (6.03%) Manual Testing
20 48 (5.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 208 (24.59%) MATLAB
2 134 (15.84%) Python
3 107 (12.65%) Java
4 100 (11.82%) SQL
5 82 (9.69%) C#
6 72 (8.51%) JavaScript
7 64 (7.57%) C++
8 41 (4.85%) Rust
9 37 (4.37%) C
10 34 (4.02%) TypeScript
11 30 (3.55%) Ada
12 24 (2.84%) Bash
13 21 (2.48%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.54%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.30%) Fortran
16 7 (0.83%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.59%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.35%) Embedded C++
18 3 (0.35%) PHP
18 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 406 (47.99%) BPSS Clearance
2 323 (38.18%) Degree
3 45 (5.32%) ISTQB
4 40 (4.73%) Security Cleared
5 29 (3.43%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.48%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.65%) Chartered Engineer
9 12 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 11 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (1.30%) PhD
11 2 (0.24%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.24%) CCNP
11 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.24%) CITP
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) ISEB
12 1 (0.12%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (10.52%) QA
2 50 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.71%) Def Stans
4 4 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.35%) PMBOK
5 3 (0.35%) WCAG
6 2 (0.24%) GxP
6 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
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%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (1.89%) Docker
2 12 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.30%) vSphere
4 6 (0.71%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.65%) Ansible
2 14 (1.65%) Terraform
3 12 (1.42%) Puppet
4 2 (0.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 95 (11.23%) Siemens
2 61 (7.21%) Microsoft
3 57 (6.74%) Oracle
4 22 (2.60%) VMware
5 21 (2.48%) Keysight
6 18 (2.13%) Zoho
7 8 (0.95%) UiPath
8 7 (0.83%) Google
9 6 (0.71%) Rockwell
9 6 (0.71%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
10 4 (0.47%) Xilinx
11 3 (0.35%) AVEVA
11 3 (0.35%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.35%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.24%) SAP
12 2 (0.24%) Splunk
12 2 (0.24%) Wonderware
13 1 (0.12%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.12%) Fortinet