Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 397 365
Rank change year-on-year -31 -32 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 350 447 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.72% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.80% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 197 249 449
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,900 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £64,250 £72,100 £62,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £53,246 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.49% +6.49% +5.26%

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 66,266 55,558 67,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.27% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,071 31,423 43,057
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,292
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,606 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 -11 94 £43,750 -2.78% 65
Midlands -19 60 £42,500 -22.73% 21
East of England +59 55 £45,000 -30.77% 37
South West -39 52 £52,500 +5.00% 26
West Midlands +4 47 £42,500 -22.73% 17
North of England +10 35 £42,500 -15.00% 18
Scotland -65 32 £45,000 - 11
Yorkshire +57 19 £38,750 -13.89% 8
Wales +10 15 £42,000 +13.51% 4
North West +13 14 £45,000 -10.00% 9
East Midlands -13 13 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Northern Ireland +27 5 £35,000 - 1
North East -7 2 £57,965 +1.69% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £110,000 -
Test Engineer
UK

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 160 (45.71%) Test Automation
2 122 (34.86%) Software Testing
3 108 (30.86%) Agile
4 92 (26.29%) Degree
5 66 (18.86%) Python
5 66 (18.86%) Social Skills
6 63 (18.00%) QA
7 57 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (16.29%) Test Scripting
8 53 (15.14%) Electronics
9 46 (13.14%) Regression Testing
10 43 (12.29%) DevOps
11 42 (12.00%) Manual Testing
11 42 (12.00%) JIRA
12 41 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
13 40 (11.43%) Selenium
13 40 (11.43%) Computer Science
13 40 (11.43%) Security Cleared
13 40 (11.43%) C#
13 40 (11.43%) Microsoft
14 39 (11.14%) SQL
15 38 (10.86%) Automotive
16 36 (10.29%) Windows
16 36 (10.29%) Git
16 36 (10.29%) Software Engineering
17 35 (10.00%) Linux
17 35 (10.00%) CI/CD
18 34 (9.71%) API Testing
18 34 (9.71%) ISTQB
19 32 (9.14%) Azure

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 24 (6.86%) Confluence
2 2 (0.57%) MTS
3 1 (0.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.29%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.43%) Simulink
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (9.14%) Azure
2 15 (4.29%) AWS
3 12 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (3.43%) GitHub
4 6 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (1.71%) SaaS
5 5 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (1.14%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.14%) Cloud Functions
6 4 (1.14%) dbt
6 4 (1.14%) GCP
6 4 (1.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (1.14%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.57%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.57%) Datadog
7 2 (0.57%) Serverless
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.29%) Firebase
8 1 (0.29%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.00%) Wireless
2 18 (5.14%) Bluetooth
2 18 (5.14%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (2.86%) 5G
3 10 (2.86%) GSM
3 10 (2.86%) ISDN
3 10 (2.86%) LTE
3 10 (2.86%) PSTN
3 10 (2.86%) UMTS
4 8 (2.29%) Ethernet
5 7 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.43%) Internet
6 5 (1.43%) Network Security
7 4 (1.14%) FlexRay
7 4 (1.14%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.86%) DHCP
9 2 (0.57%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.29%) Firewall
10 1 (0.29%) RS-232
10 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.43%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.14%) Tableau
6 2 (0.57%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (12.00%) JIRA
2 40 (11.43%) Selenium
3 36 (10.29%) Git
4 26 (7.43%) LabVIEW
5 22 (6.29%) Postman
6 18 (5.14%) Appium
7 17 (4.86%) Cypress.io
7 17 (4.86%) MSTest
8 14 (4.00%) Bitbucket
8 14 (4.00%) Cucumber
8 14 (4.00%) JMeter
9 13 (3.71%) Jenkins
9 13 (3.71%) SpecFlow
10 12 (3.43%) Visual Studio
11 11 (3.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (3.14%) UI Automator
12 10 (2.86%) JBehave
13 8 (2.29%) WebDriver
14 7 (2.00%) JUnit
14 7 (2.00%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.14%) Electronics
3 41 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.86%) Automotive
5 30 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 25 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (6.00%) Finance
8 17 (4.86%) Retail
9 13 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.43%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.14%) Military
11 11 (3.14%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.86%) Marketing
12 10 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.14%) Legal
15 3 (0.86%) Games
16 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
17 1 (0.29%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.00%) .NET
2 13 (3.71%) Gherkin
3 9 (2.57%) HTML
3 9 (2.57%) pytest
3 9 (2.57%) XML
4 5 (1.43%) CSS
4 5 (1.43%) JSON
4 5 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (1.43%) Playwright
4 5 (1.43%) REST
4 5 (1.43%) SOAP
4 5 (1.43%) Web Services
5 4 (1.14%) DOM
5 4 (1.14%) Middleware
5 4 (1.14%) XSLT
6 3 (0.86%) Node.js
6 3 (0.86%) Qt
6 3 (0.86%) RESTful
7 2 (0.57%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.57%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.43%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (4.29%) IoT
3 12 (3.43%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.14%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (2.86%) Acoustics
5 10 (2.86%) Satnav
6 7 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.00%) Smartphone
7 6 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.71%) Chip and PIN
7 6 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.14%) NHS
9 4 (1.14%) Robotics
10 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.86%) PCIe
11 2 (0.57%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.57%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.29%) Windows
2 35 (10.00%) Linux
3 15 (4.29%) Unix
4 8 (2.29%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.00%) Android
6 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.57%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.29%) CentOS
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (45.71%) Test Automation
2 122 (34.86%) Software Testing
3 108 (30.86%) Agile
4 57 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (16.29%) Test Scripting
5 46 (13.14%) Regression Testing
6 43 (12.29%) DevOps
7 42 (12.00%) Manual Testing
8 40 (11.43%) Computer Science
9 36 (10.29%) Software Engineering
10 35 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 34 (9.71%) API Testing
12 30 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (8.00%) Test Strategy
14 27 (7.71%) Test Management
14 27 (7.71%) Validation
15 23 (6.57%) Functional Testing
16 22 (6.29%) Non-Functional Testing
17 21 (6.00%) BDD
18 20 (5.71%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (18.86%) Python
2 40 (11.43%) C#
3 39 (11.14%) SQL
4 26 (7.43%) JavaScript
5 23 (6.57%) C
6 21 (6.00%) Java
7 15 (4.29%) MATLAB
8 10 (2.86%) C++
9 9 (2.57%) Embedded C
9 9 (2.57%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.43%) Bash
10 5 (1.43%) Groovy
11 4 (1.14%) Ruby
12 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 92 (26.29%) Degree
2 40 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.71%) ISTQB
4 23 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.43%) DBS Check
7 10 (2.86%) HND
8 7 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.71%) HNC
10 5 (1.43%) ISEB
10 5 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.14%) CIPD
11 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.86%) NVQ Level 3
13 2 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.29%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (18.00%) QA
2 10 (2.86%) ISO 9001
3 8 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.86%) COSHH
4 3 (0.86%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.86%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.86%) JTAG
4 3 (0.86%) MISRA
5 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) HAZOP
System Software
1 12 (3.43%) Firmware
2 5 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.14%) VMware Server
4 3 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.86%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.57%) Grafana
2 2 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.29%) Iperf
3 1 (0.29%) Kibana
3 1 (0.29%) Nmap
Vendors
1 40 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.57%) Google
3 7 (2.00%) EMC
4 6 (1.71%) Thales
5 5 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.43%) VMware
6 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.86%) Conga
6 3 (0.86%) IBM
6 3 (0.86%) Lauterbach
6 3 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.57%) Splunk
8 1 (0.29%) Denodo
8 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.29%) Talend