Exploratory Testing Jobs

Exploratory Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 851 819
Rank change year-on-year +179 -32 -26
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 48 45 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.044% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.053% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 40 38 58
10th Percentile - £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £25,750 £32,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £43,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% -11.44%
75th Percentile £51,250 £58,438 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,125 £67,250 £89,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £27,250 £42,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year -35.88% -8.11% -7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Exploratory 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 54,039 85,405 81,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.90% 82.58% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,455 58,267 52,492
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,862 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in the UK

Exploratory Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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 +176 44 £35,000 -22.22% 38
UK excluding London +167 39 £27,250 -35.88% 25
North of England +38 19 £26,500 -41.11% 6
Work from Home +76 18 £42,500 - 18
Yorkshire +51 18 £26,500 -41.11% 1
London +86 7 £52,500 -8.70% 16
Midlands +88 6 £42,500 +6.25% 7
South East +83 6 £48,750 +14.71% 6
South West +106 5 £40,000 - 3
West Midlands +60 5 £42,500 +6.25% 6
Scotland +90 2 £51,250 +46.43% 1
East of England +33 1 £60,000 +60.00% 2
North West -2 1 £28,000 -25.33% 5
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 1

Exploratory 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 1 (2.08%) Moodle
1 1 (2.08%) Totara
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) AWS
2 18 (37.50%) SaaS
3 10 (20.83%) Azure
4 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Selenium
2 8 (16.67%) Postman
3 5 (10.42%) Appium
3 5 (10.42%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.33%) WebDriver
5 3 (6.25%) Git
5 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.25%) JIRA
5 3 (6.25%) LoadRunner
5 3 (6.25%) SpecFlow
5 3 (6.25%) Zephyr
6 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
6 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.17%) Gatling
6 2 (4.17%) JMeter
6 2 (4.17%) Locust
6 2 (4.17%) TestComplete
6 2 (4.17%) TestRail
7 1 (2.08%) NeoLoad
7 1 (2.08%) TestNG
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Law
5 3 (6.25%) Military
6 2 (4.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Finance
7 1 (2.08%) Games
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) IT Engineer
1 18 (37.50%) IT Support
1 18 (37.50%) IT Support Engineer
1 18 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) Software Support Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Tester
4 8 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Analyst
5 6 (12.50%) Senior
6 5 (10.42%) Software Tester
7 4 (8.33%) Test Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Test Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Automation Tester
8 3 (6.25%) Junior
8 3 (6.25%) QA Analyst
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Tester
9 2 (4.17%) 1st Line Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) QA Test Analyst
9 2 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) Playwright
2 5 (10.42%) .NET
3 3 (6.25%) XML
4 2 (4.17%) Gherkin
4 2 (4.17%) React
4 2 (4.17%) REST
4 2 (4.17%) Swagger
5 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.08%) CSS
5 1 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.08%) HTML
5 1 (2.08%) JSON
5 1 (2.08%) MERN Stack
5 1 (2.08%) RESTful
5 1 (2.08%) Vue
5 1 (2.08%) WebGL
5 1 (2.08%) WebGPU
5 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (54.17%) Mobile App
2 18 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Windows
2 19 (39.58%) Android
3 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (77.08%) Software Testing
2 23 (47.92%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (43.75%) Test Automation
4 18 (37.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 18 (37.50%) CRM
4 18 (37.50%) Customer Service
4 18 (37.50%) Data Privacy
4 18 (37.50%) Mathematics
4 18 (37.50%) Migration
5 13 (27.08%) Agile
6 12 (25.00%) Regression Testing
6 12 (25.00%) Test Management
6 12 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (18.75%) DevOps
7 9 (18.75%) Manual Testing
8 8 (16.67%) API Testing
8 8 (16.67%) Test Scripting
9 7 (14.58%) Functional Testing
10 6 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.92%) Java
3 9 (18.75%) SQL
4 7 (14.58%) Python
5 6 (12.50%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) PHP
6 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 6 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) ISEB
4 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (41.67%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
1 2 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (37.50%) Zoho
3 1 (2.08%) UiPath