Agile Testing Jobs

Agile Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Agile Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile Testing over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 878 318
Rank change year-on-year +208 -560 +729
Permanent jobs citing Agile Testing 17 36 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.037% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.043% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 20 42
10th Percentile £38,250 £34,700 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £40,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.27% -44.83% +11.54%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,741 £89,852
90th Percentile £67,500 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,507 £40,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +21.27% -9.09% -23.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile Testing 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,192 84,627 98,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.39% 85.89% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,577 59,744 58,120
10th Percentile £30,375 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £75,772 £72,500 £81,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing.

Salary trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. 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
England +168 17 £48,507 +21.27% 8
Work from Home +157 13 £48,507 +21.27% 4
London +110 9 £65,000 - 2
UK excluding London +191 8 £48,507 +21.27% 7
Yorkshire +77 6 £48,507 -16.32%
North of England +70 6 £48,507 -16.32% 3
Midlands +53 2 £40,500 +1.25% 3
West Midlands +49 2 £40,500 +1.25% 3

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (35.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) JIRA
2 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
4 5 (29.41%) Selenium
5 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
5 3 (17.65%) JMeter
5 3 (17.65%) JUnit
5 3 (17.65%) LoadRunner
5 3 (17.65%) TestRail
6 2 (11.76%) Appium
6 2 (11.76%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (11.76%) Postman
6 2 (11.76%) XCUITest
7 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (35.29%) Banking
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Quality Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Functional Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) CSS
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
3 10 (58.82%) Defect Management
3 10 (58.82%) Scrum
4 9 (52.94%) DevOps
5 7 (41.18%) Manual Testing
5 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
6 6 (35.29%) BDD
6 6 (35.29%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Kanban
8 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
8 4 (23.53%) Test Management
8 4 (23.53%) Test Planning
8 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
9 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
9 3 (17.65%) Functional Testing
9 3 (17.65%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) Swift
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) ISTQB
2 4 (23.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 3 (17.65%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
1 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Reuters