TestOps Job Trends in the UK excluding London

TestOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring TestOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 560 715
Rank change year-on-year -69 +155 -54
Permanent jobs citing TestOps 2 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.003% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £38,325 - £48,000
25th Percentile £40,688 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £53,188 - £56,250
90th Percentile £55,775 - £57,000
UK median annual salary £46,750 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -15.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

TestOps 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 50,527 29,838 56,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.54% 88.27% 79.94%
Number of salaries quoted 35,584 16,032 38,818
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%

TestOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

TestOps job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TestOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TestOps

TestOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing TestOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Salary histogram for TestOps in the UK excluding London

TestOps
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 TestOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
East of England -12 1 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £38,500 -
Midlands - 1 £38,500 - 3
TestOps
UK

TestOps
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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Safety Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Interpretation
1 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft