TestRail Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring TestRail skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 562 528
Rank change year-on-year +58 -34 +152
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 13 18 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.048% 0.075%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% 0.49% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 14
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £31,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,875 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,875 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.45% +16.06% -21.43%
75th Percentile £81,875 £68,125 £52,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £70,000 £63,875
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% +12.50% -4.76%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

TestRail falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,197 3,651 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.24% 9.80% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 2,082 2,923
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -7.56% +8.18%
75th Percentile £65,938 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

TestRail job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TestRail
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

TestRail
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing TestRail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TestRail in the UK excluding London

TestRail
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 TestRail within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +21 6 £90,000 +50.00% 1
South West +10 4 £40,000 +26.98% 2
West Midlands - 2 £31,250 - 2
Midlands - 2 £31,250 - 2
North of England +22 1 - - 10
North East - 1 - -
TestRail
UK

TestRail
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) CMS
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) GIS
1 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) JIRA
2 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
3 6 (46.15%) Selenium
4 4 (30.77%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) Robot Framework
5 2 (15.38%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
5 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
5 2 (15.38%) Fiddler
5 2 (15.38%) Gatling
5 2 (15.38%) GitLab
5 2 (15.38%) LoadRunner
5 2 (15.38%) Locust
5 2 (15.38%) Postman
5 2 (15.38%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
2 2 (15.38%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Manual Tester
2 2 (15.38%) QA Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Software Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Tester
3 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (23.08%) Playwright
3 2 (15.38%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) 3D Graphics
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) Over-the-Top Content
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Android
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
1 2 (15.38%) CentOS
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
1 11 (84.62%) Test Management
2 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
2 9 (69.23%) Test Automation
3 8 (61.54%) Regression Testing
4 7 (53.85%) Validation
5 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
5 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) User Stories
6 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Bash
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) ISTQB
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 2 (15.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Nessus
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
1 2 (15.38%) Roku
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft