Test Harness Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Test Harness
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Test Harness skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 540 647
Rank change year-on-year -107 +107 -48
Permanent jobs citing Test Harness 5 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.023% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.026% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile - £47,628 £54,800
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,397 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -19.39% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,407 £72,500
90th Percentile - £68,750 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,397 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.57% -19.39% +23.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Harness 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 56,489 30,277 45,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.26% 86.74% 78.21%
Number of salaries quoted 40,012 16,652 27,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,803
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -6.50% -6.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

Test Harness
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Harness relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Test Harness job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Test Harness
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Test Harness.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Test Harness

Test Harness
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 Harness within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. 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 West -71 3 - - 2
East Midlands -29 1 £50,000 -28.57%
Midlands -37 1 £50,000 -28.57%
East of England - 1 £50,000 -
Test Harness
UK

Test Harness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (60.00%) Aviation
1 3 (60.00%) Avionics
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (60.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (60.00%) Robotics
3 1 (20.00%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) AI
1 3 (60.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Memory Management
1 3 (60.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Requirements Management
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) SysML
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) UML
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Mechatronics
2 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) C++
3 3 (60.00%) Ada
3 3 (60.00%) Ada 95
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) Rust
4 2 (40.00%) Python
5 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
5 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (60.00%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware