Senior Software Test Engineer Jobs

Senior Software Test Engineer
UK

The median Senior Software Test Engineer salary in the UK is £46,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 948 1185
Rank change year-on-year +61 +237 -301
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Test Engineer 4 55 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.051% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.056% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 12
10th Percentile £38,975 - £38,500
25th Percentile £40,438 £67,500 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +27.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £54,688 £72,500 £62,250
90th Percentile £63,125 - £80,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £70,000 £40,250
% change year-on-year -33.93% +73.91% -31.49%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 91,973 98,868 146,086
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.69% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 66,504 61,753 85,740
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,308 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Software Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Software Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Test Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Software Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Test Engineer over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Software Test Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Test Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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 +93 4 £46,250 -33.93% 2
UK excluding London -23 4 £46,250 -33.93% 2
South East +7 2 £45,500 -35.00% 2
North of England - 2 £55,000 -
Work from Home +86 1 £67,500 - 1
London - 1 £67,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £67,500 -
North West - 1 £42,500 -

Senior Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Senior Software Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) OOD
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Electronics
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Android

Senior Software Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Firebase
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
1 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree