Senior Test Engineer
UK

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 825 832 976
Rank change year-on-year +7 +144 -223
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 69 158 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 45 85 174
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,000 £49,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% -3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60,741 £81,250 £74,686
90th Percentile £64,500 £88,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +12.38% -4.55%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
UK excluding London -51 61 £45,000 -23.73% 27
England +31 53 £50,000 -12.05% 31
Work from Home +40 24 £57,965 -3.39% 10
South East +5 17 £45,000 -44.62% 13
Midlands +11 11 £47,500 -19.15% 2
West Midlands +23 10 £42,500 - 2
North of England +24 9 £57,965 -7.26% 3
East of England +23 9 £45,000 -35.71% 7
Wales +9 6 £40,000 -16.67% 1
Scotland -72 5 £45,000 -25.00%
London +100 4 £67,500 +12.50% 5
North West +12 4 £50,232 -44.19% 1
South West -34 4 £49,750 +4.74% 2
Yorkshire +74 3 £57,965 -25.21% 1
North East -4 2 £57,965 +3.97% 1
East Midlands -16 1 £62,500 +6.38%

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (33.33%) Agile
1 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 18 (26.09%) Non-Functional Testing
3 17 (24.64%) Manufacturing
4 13 (18.84%) Software Testing
5 12 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (15.94%) Software Engineering
6 11 (15.94%) Electronics
6 11 (15.94%) SQL
7 10 (14.49%) DevOps
8 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
8 9 (13.04%) Coaching
8 9 (13.04%) Postman
8 9 (13.04%) Accessibility
8 9 (13.04%) Regression Testing
8 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
9 8 (11.59%) Git
9 8 (11.59%) AWS
9 8 (11.59%) Degree
9 8 (11.59%) QA
9 8 (11.59%) C#
9 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
9 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
9 8 (11.59%) Functional Testing
10 7 (10.14%) SoapUI
10 7 (10.14%) Test Strategy
10 7 (10.14%) API Testing
10 7 (10.14%) SOAP
10 7 (10.14%) XML
10 7 (10.14%) LabVIEW

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.59%) AWS
2 7 (10.14%) Azure
3 3 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.45%) Firebase
4 1 (1.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) Bluetooth
1 4 (5.80%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (5.80%) ZigBee
2 1 (1.45%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.45%) HTTP
2 1 (1.45%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.90%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.45%) MySQL
4 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Postman
2 8 (11.59%) Git
3 7 (10.14%) JIRA
3 7 (10.14%) LabVIEW
3 7 (10.14%) SoapUI
4 6 (8.70%) MSTest
5 4 (5.80%) JMeter
6 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.90%) Selenium
7 1 (1.45%) Appium
7 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.45%) GitLab
7 1 (1.45%) mountebank
7 1 (1.45%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.45%) Subversion
7 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (24.64%) Manufacturing
2 11 (15.94%) Electronics
3 5 (7.25%) Automotive
4 4 (5.80%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Games
5 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.90%) Finance
6 2 (2.90%) Military
6 2 (2.90%) Welsh Language
7 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) SOAP
1 7 (10.14%) XML
2 6 (8.70%) REST
3 5 (7.25%) JSON
4 3 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.90%) .NET
5 2 (2.90%) OAuth
5 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.45%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.45%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.45%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.45%) Kafka
6 1 (1.45%) Laravel
6 1 (1.45%) pytest
6 1 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.45%) Swagger
6 1 (1.45%) Web Services
6 1 (1.45%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.45%) WireMock
6 1 (1.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.80%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (5.80%) IoT
2 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) Animation
4 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Lidar
4 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.45%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Android
2 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Agile
1 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 18 (26.09%) Non-Functional Testing
3 13 (18.84%) Software Testing
4 12 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (15.94%) Software Engineering
6 10 (14.49%) DevOps
7 9 (13.04%) Coaching
7 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 9 (13.04%) Regression Testing
8 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.59%) Functional Testing
9 7 (10.14%) API Testing
9 7 (10.14%) Computer Science
9 7 (10.14%) Scrum
9 7 (10.14%) Security Testing
9 7 (10.14%) Test Strategy
10 6 (8.70%) Performance Testing
10 6 (8.70%) Process Improvement
10 6 (8.70%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) SQL
2 8 (11.59%) C#
3 5 (7.25%) C
3 5 (7.25%) Python
3 5 (7.25%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.90%) Java
4 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.45%) Go
5 1 (1.45%) Groovy
5 1 (1.45%) PHP
5 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) Degree
3 6 (8.70%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.90%) GIAC
5 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 8 (11.59%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Firmware
2 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 1 (1.45%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.45%) EMC
4 1 (1.45%) Google