System Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 601 563
Rank change year-on-year +234 -38 -41
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 221 170 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 99 120 113
10th Percentile £34,300 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,250 £38,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +8.81%
75th Percentile £54,272 £61,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £54,793 £85,000 £73,500
UK median annual salary £47,863 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% - -3.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

System 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 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System 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 System Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 +87 73 £37,000 -40.80% 85
North of England +94 68 £47,863 +12.62% 42
North West +51 62 £47,863 +19.23% 28
Midlands +96 40 £47,500 +11.76% 33
East of England +72 30 £42,500 -34.62% 41
East Midlands +64 28 £47,500 +11.76% 14
West Midlands +50 12 £47,500 -13.64% 16
South West +98 11 £45,000 -21.74% 26
Scotland +105 5 - - 7
Yorkshire +59 5 £42,000 -11.58% 11
North East - 1 £52,500 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7
System Testing
UK

System 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 2 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 52 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (22.62%) Simulink
3 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.81%) SAP BPC
3 3 (1.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.45%) iTrent
4 1 (0.45%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.14%) OCI
2 9 (4.07%) Power Platform
3 6 (2.71%) AWS
4 5 (2.26%) Boomi
4 5 (2.26%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 5 (2.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.36%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.36%) CloudFront
7 2 (0.90%) SaaS
8 1 (0.45%) Azure
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 63 (28.51%) VPN
2 62 (28.05%) TCP/IP
3 18 (8.14%) ATM
3 18 (8.14%) VoIP
4 5 (2.26%) Modbus
4 5 (2.26%) MQTT
5 4 (1.81%) Ethernet
5 4 (1.81%) Intranet
6 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.45%) FlexRay
6 1 (0.45%) GSM
6 1 (0.45%) LTE
6 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.45%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.45%) UMTS
6 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.45%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.07%) Power BI
2 7 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (2.71%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.36%) MySQL
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 62 (28.05%) Cucumber
1 62 (28.05%) Robot Framework
2 13 (5.88%) Git
3 9 (4.07%) JIRA
4 7 (3.17%) Selenium
5 4 (1.81%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.36%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
7 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 132 (59.73%) Social Skills
2 69 (31.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 64 (28.96%) Telecoms
4 51 (23.08%) Aerospace
5 18 (8.14%) Military
6 13 (5.88%) Finance
7 10 (4.52%) Aeronautics
8 9 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.71%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.71%) Retail
11 4 (1.81%) Electronics
12 3 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Automotive
13 2 (0.90%) Billing
13 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 73 (33.03%) Test Engineer
2 68 (30.77%) Senior
3 67 (30.32%) Test Automation Engineer
4 57 (25.79%) Lead
5 55 (24.89%) Systems Engineer
6 52 (23.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 50 (22.62%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 50 (22.62%) Team Leader
8 20 (9.05%) Analyst
9 19 (8.60%) Field Engineer
10 18 (8.14%) Field Service Engineer
11 12 (5.43%) Cloud Specialist
11 12 (5.43%) Oracle Specialist
12 10 (4.52%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.62%) Implementation Manager
13 8 (3.62%) Support Manager
13 8 (3.62%) Technical Implementation Manager
13 8 (3.62%) Technical Manager
13 8 (3.62%) Technical Support Manager
14 7 (3.17%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.71%) CSS
2 5 (2.26%) EDI
3 4 (1.81%) GraphQL
3 4 (1.81%) HTML
3 4 (1.81%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.81%) React
3 4 (1.81%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.36%) .NET
4 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.36%) CakePHP
4 3 (1.36%) Laravel
4 3 (1.36%) Node.js
4 3 (1.36%) OpenCV
4 3 (1.36%) Playwright
5 2 (0.90%) JSON
5 2 (0.90%) LAMP
5 2 (0.90%) XML
6 1 (0.45%) Node-RED
6 1 (0.45%) Puppeteer
6 1 (0.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 65 (29.41%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (9.05%) Driving Licence
2 20 (9.05%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.62%) SCADA
4 7 (3.17%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.71%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.26%) Biopharmaceutical
6 5 (2.26%) IoT
7 4 (1.81%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.36%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.45%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.45%) FPGA
9 1 (0.45%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 70 (31.67%) Linux
2 65 (29.41%) Windows
3 3 (1.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (50.68%) Coaching
2 94 (42.53%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (37.56%) Test Automation
4 77 (34.84%) Mentoring
5 67 (30.32%) DevOps
6 63 (28.51%) Project Management
6 63 (28.51%) Test Management
7 57 (25.79%) Agile
8 51 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
9 50 (22.62%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 50 (22.62%) Safety Engineering
9 50 (22.62%) SysML
10 41 (18.55%) Technical Leadership
11 40 (18.10%) Software Delivery
12 27 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (11.76%) Line Management
14 25 (11.31%) Business Continuity
15 20 (9.05%) Situational Awareness
16 19 (8.60%) Software Testing
17 18 (8.14%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.65%) Python
2 75 (33.94%) JavaScript
3 66 (29.86%) Bash
4 62 (28.05%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.88%) Java
6 7 (3.17%) SQL
7 6 (2.71%) C#
8 4 (1.81%) PHP
8 4 (1.81%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.90%) C
9 2 (0.90%) C++
9 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.90%) Perl
9 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.45%) Ada
10 1 (0.45%) Rust
10 1 (0.45%) Tcl
10 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (41.63%) Degree
2 54 (24.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 24 (10.86%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.14%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.26%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.81%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.81%) HNC
7 4 (1.81%) HND
8 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (35.29%) QA
2 5 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.45%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.45%) MISRA
4 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.26%) Docker
2 3 (1.36%) Firmware
2 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.26%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (28.96%) Microsoft
2 50 (22.62%) MathWorks
3 22 (9.95%) Oracle
4 9 (4.07%) SAP
5 5 (2.26%) Dell
6 4 (1.81%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.81%) Hyperion
6 4 (1.81%) Rockwell
6 4 (1.81%) Siemens
7 3 (1.36%) Cisco
7 3 (1.36%) Minitab
7 3 (1.36%) VMware
8 2 (0.90%) Cognos
8 2 (0.90%) IBM
8 2 (0.90%) Meraki
9 1 (0.45%) EMC