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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 549 550
Rank change year-on-year +54 +1 +130
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 14 17 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.047% 0.067%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.64% 0.48% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 13
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £30,938 £30,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% -8.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £70,313 £68,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £70,000 £64,250
UK median annual salary £48,750 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +20.00% -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 2,184 3,554 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.15% 9.89% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,996 3,062
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,279 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,325 £82,500 £86,000
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 14 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 14 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 +31 6 £90,000 +50.00%
South West +14 4 £40,000 +26.98% 4
West Midlands - 3 £27,500 - 1
Midlands - 3 £27,500 - 2
North of England +5 1 - - 7
North East - 1 - -
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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 (14.29%) CMS
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) GIS
1 2 (14.29%) InfluxDB
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) JIRA
2 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (42.86%) Selenium
4 4 (28.57%) Git
4 4 (28.57%) Robot Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
5 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 2 (14.29%) Fiddler
5 2 (14.29%) Gatling
5 2 (14.29%) GitLab
5 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
5 2 (14.29%) Locust
5 2 (14.29%) Postman
5 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.14%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Software Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 2 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Manual Tester
3 2 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Software Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Tester
4 1 (7.14%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (28.57%) Playwright
2 2 (14.29%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) 3D Graphics
1 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 2 (14.29%) Over-the-Top Content
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
1 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 2 (14.29%) CentOS
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
1 12 (85.71%) Test Management
2 10 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 9 (64.29%) Regression Testing
3 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
4 8 (57.14%) Validation
5 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (35.71%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (35.71%) SDLC
5 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) User Stories
6 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
7 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 3 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Bash
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) ISTQB
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 2 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Nessus
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 2 (14.29%) Roku
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft