Test Specialist Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 - 554
Rank change year-on-year - - +213
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Specialist 12 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.029% - 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% - 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £49,500 - -
25th Percentile £54,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £120,000
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile £69,500 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 - £24,500
% change year-on-year - - -53.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 37,951 33,588 32,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 92.94% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,133 16,400 24,992
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,743
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Test Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Specialist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Test Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Test Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Test Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Specialist in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Midlands - 6 - -
South East - 6 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands - 6 - -
Test Specialist
UK

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 January 2026, Test Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Test Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (16.67%) Appium
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 2 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (16.67%) JIRA
5 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Playwright
5 2 (16.67%) QA
5 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 2 (16.67%) SCCM
5 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (16.67%) SCOM
5 2 (16.67%) Selenium
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) Subversion
5 2 (16.67%) V-Model
5 2 (16.67%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Windows
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019

Test Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Appium
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.33%) TestNG
3 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Advertising
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (16.67%) V-Model
2 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (8.33%) API Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Release Management
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Management
3 1 (8.33%) SIEM
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) Test Management
3 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Terminal Server
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
1 2 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) McAfee