Data-Driven Testing Job Trends

Data-Driven Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data-Driven Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 736 - 885
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 5 0 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.005% - 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% - 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 - £65,000
75th Percentile £52,500 - £79,719
90th Percentile - - £135,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 - £64,387
% change year-on-year - - -0.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Data-Driven 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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%

Data-Driven Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data-Driven Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data-Driven Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Data-Driven Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data-Driven Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data-Driven Testing

Data-Driven Testing
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
England - 5 £48,750 - 2
London - 3 £47,500 - 1
Midlands - 2 £50,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £50,000 -
UK excluding London - 2 £50,000 - 1

Data-Driven Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) QA Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Playwright
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Accessibility