Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 239 367
Rank change year-on-year -266 +128 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 271 887 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 1.43% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 1.60% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 185 277 416
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +12.94% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -

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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £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 £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
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 Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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 -18 72 £45,500 -9.00% 11
North of England -164 62 £40,000 -18.37% 19
North West -134 38 £40,000 -11.11% 13
Midlands -125 36 £45,000 - 6
South West -51 35 £37,674 -16.28% 8
Scotland -107 32 £40,000 -5.88% 5
West Midlands -101 25 £45,000 -16.28% 3
Yorkshire -1 20 £38,750 -22.50% 5
East of England -25 20 £27,500 -40.54% 5
Wales +13 12 £42,500 -5.56% 3
East Midlands -45 11 £46,000 +40.46% 3
North East -4 4 £47,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +19 2 £68,750 -5.17% 2
Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 156 (57.56%) Test Automation
2 137 (50.55%) Software Testing
3 96 (35.42%) QA
4 91 (33.58%) Agile
5 73 (26.94%) Selenium
6 69 (25.46%) Social Skills
7 52 (19.19%) Java
8 48 (17.71%) JavaScript
8 48 (17.71%) Test Scripting
9 45 (16.61%) Security Cleared
9 45 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
10 42 (15.50%) C#
11 40 (14.76%) Penetration Testing
11 40 (14.76%) CI/CD
12 39 (14.39%) Cucumber
13 38 (14.02%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (14.02%) Degree
14 35 (12.92%) Mentoring
15 34 (12.55%) Python
15 34 (12.55%) Regression Testing
16 32 (11.81%) Computer Science
17 31 (11.44%) Manual Testing
17 31 (11.44%) API Testing
17 31 (11.44%) OSCP
18 29 (10.70%) Scrum
19 27 (9.96%) JIRA
19 27 (9.96%) Test Strategy
19 27 (9.96%) Coaching
19 27 (9.96%) Code Quality

Tester 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 10 (3.69%) Apache
2 5 (1.85%) Confluence
3 2 (0.74%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (8.86%) Azure
2 23 (8.49%) SaaS
3 15 (5.54%) AWS
4 12 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.69%) GitHub
6 1 (0.37%) ClickUp
6 1 (0.37%) GCP
6 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.32%) Wireless
2 8 (2.95%) Internet
3 6 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.85%) Wireless Security
5 4 (1.48%) Firewall
6 3 (1.11%) 5G
6 3 (1.11%) HTTP
7 2 (0.74%) 4G
8 1 (0.37%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.37%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.37%) SCTP
8 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 73 (26.94%) Selenium
2 39 (14.39%) Cucumber
3 27 (9.96%) JIRA
4 17 (6.27%) WebDriver
5 16 (5.90%) Postman
5 16 (5.90%) REST Assured
6 15 (5.54%) TestNG
7 14 (5.17%) JUnit
8 13 (4.80%) Jenkins
9 12 (4.43%) Appium
9 12 (4.43%) JMeter
9 12 (4.43%) SoapUI
10 10 (3.69%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.69%) Cypress.io
11 9 (3.32%) Burp Suite
11 9 (3.32%) Git
11 9 (3.32%) Metasploit
11 9 (3.32%) SpecFlow
12 7 (2.58%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.58%) Serenity BDD
General
1 69 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.49%) Retail
4 19 (7.01%) Aerospace
5 17 (6.27%) Finance
6 15 (5.54%) Legal
7 14 (5.17%) Law
8 10 (3.69%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.95%) Games
10 8 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.85%) Automotive
11 5 (1.85%) Banking
11 5 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.85%) Marketing
12 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.74%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.38%) .NET
2 17 (6.27%) Web Services
3 15 (5.54%) REST
4 11 (4.06%) SOAP
4 11 (4.06%) WireMock
5 10 (3.69%) Apache Commons
5 10 (3.69%) Guava
5 10 (3.69%) Java Concurrency
5 10 (3.69%) RESTful
6 8 (2.95%) Gherkin
7 6 (2.21%) Spring
7 6 (2.21%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.48%) Playwright
9 3 (1.11%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.74%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.74%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.37%) ADO
11 1 (0.37%) EDI
11 1 (0.37%) React
11 1 (0.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.59%) Mobile App
2 15 (5.54%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.58%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.21%) IoT
7 5 (1.85%) FMCG
7 5 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.11%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.74%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.37%) Blog
11 1 (0.37%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.37%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.37%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.43%) Windows
2 10 (3.69%) Android
2 10 (3.69%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.95%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.48%) Unix
5 3 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (57.56%) Test Automation
2 137 (50.55%) Software Testing
3 91 (33.58%) Agile
4 48 (17.71%) Test Scripting
5 45 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (14.76%) CI/CD
6 40 (14.76%) Penetration Testing
7 38 (14.02%) Cybersecurity
8 35 (12.92%) Mentoring
9 34 (12.55%) Regression Testing
10 32 (11.81%) Computer Science
11 31 (11.44%) API Testing
11 31 (11.44%) Manual Testing
12 29 (10.70%) Scrum
13 27 (9.96%) Coaching
13 27 (9.96%) Code Quality
13 27 (9.96%) Test Strategy
14 26 (9.59%) BDD
14 26 (9.59%) SDLC
15 25 (9.23%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.19%) Java
2 48 (17.71%) JavaScript
3 42 (15.50%) C#
4 34 (12.55%) Python
5 20 (7.38%) SQL
6 6 (2.21%) Bash
7 2 (0.74%) C
7 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.74%) Ruby
7 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Scala
8 1 (0.37%) VB
8 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.02%) Degree
3 31 (11.44%) OSCP
4 21 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (7.75%) DV Cleared
5 20 (7.38%) SC Cleared
6 17 (6.27%) ISTQB
7 12 (4.43%) CHECK Team Member
7 12 (4.43%) CREST Certified
8 7 (2.58%) ISEB
9 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.11%) CHECK Team Leader
9 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.11%) OSCE
10 2 (0.74%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (0.74%) HND
10 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.37%) CISA
11 1 (0.37%) CISSP
11 1 (0.37%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (35.42%) QA
2 8 (2.95%) GRC
3 6 (2.21%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) ISO 14001
5 2 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (4.80%) Docker
2 11 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.95%) Nmap
3 5 (1.85%) Nessus
4 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.21%) Oracle
3 3 (1.11%) Qualys
4 2 (0.74%) Dynatrace
4 2 (0.74%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.37%) Databricks
5 1 (0.37%) HP
5 1 (0.37%) Trustwave