Software Testing Jobs

Software Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 180 74
Rank change year-on-year +29 -106 +41
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1,066 1,596 4,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 1.62% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.89% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 610 1,279 1,402
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,550
25th Percentile £43,375 £39,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,643 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,329 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.50% -1.34% +8.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software 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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £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 £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the UK

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in the UK

Software Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the UK

Software Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +44 978 £56,000 +6.67% 731
UK excluding London +49 866 £55,000 +11.50% 620
Midlands +116 350 £45,000 - 108
Work from Home -8 264 £57,500 +4.55% 382
West Midlands +87 222 £42,500 -5.56% 73
South East +32 206 £59,000 +22.92% 185
London +7 171 £65,000 -10.34% 205
North of England -15 154 £52,500 -4.55% 128
East Midlands +111 128 £47,500 -3.71% 29
North West -16 106 £57,030 +3.69% 76
South West +42 58 £54,282 +8.56% 69
Scotland +58 44 £55,000 +22.22% 48
Yorkshire +16 41 £32,250 -41.36% 34
East of England -28 35 £57,500 +4.55% 74
Wales +16 15 £60,000 +26.32% 19
North East +39 7 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Northern Ireland +32 4 - - 12

Software 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 16 (1.50%) Confluence
2 11 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.84%) WinCC
4 5 (0.47%) Apache
5 4 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (0.38%) IIS
5 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.19%) Appian
6 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.094%) CICS
7 1 (0.094%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.094%) JBoss
7 1 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 212 (19.89%) Simulink
2 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.094%) Maple
Business Applications
1 4 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.19%) iTrent
4 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.094%) Endur
4 1 (0.094%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.094%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 105 (9.85%) Azure
2 100 (9.38%) AWS
3 64 (6.00%) SaaS
4 46 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (2.91%) GCP
6 24 (2.25%) GitHub
7 20 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
7 20 (1.88%) Power Platform
8 18 (1.69%) Serverless
9 15 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (1.13%) Power Automate
11 11 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (0.66%) Snowflake
15 6 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
16 5 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
17 3 (0.28%) Figma
17 3 (0.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.13%) 5G
1 12 (1.13%) Ethernet
1 12 (1.13%) LTE
2 11 (1.03%) Bluetooth
2 11 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.66%) HTTP
5 6 (0.56%) Profibus
6 5 (0.47%) Internet
6 5 (0.47%) Network Security
6 5 (0.47%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.28%) Firewall
7 3 (0.28%) VPN
8 2 (0.19%) BGP
8 2 (0.19%) Intranet
8 2 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.094%) DNS
9 1 (0.094%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.094%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.094%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 38 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.78%) MySQL
5 18 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.50%) OLTP
7 15 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.03%) Power BI
9 10 (0.94%) DynamoDB
10 9 (0.84%) Redis
10 9 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.38%) Big Data
13 4 (0.38%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.28%) Couchbase
14 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.28%) Hazelcast
15 2 (0.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 86 (8.07%) Selenium
2 83 (7.79%) JIRA
3 78 (7.32%) Git
4 40 (3.75%) Postman
5 39 (3.66%) Cypress.io
6 32 (3.00%) Jenkins
7 31 (2.91%) JUnit
8 24 (2.25%) JMeter
9 22 (2.06%) SpecFlow
10 21 (1.97%) Appium
10 21 (1.97%) eggPlant
11 18 (1.69%) TestNG
12 17 (1.59%) Cucumber
13 16 (1.50%) TestRail
14 15 (1.41%) IntelliJ
15 14 (1.31%) MagicDraw
16 13 (1.22%) SoapUI
17 11 (1.03%) NUnit
18 10 (0.94%) WebDriver
19 9 (0.84%) REST Assured
General
1 260 (24.39%) Aerospace
2 211 (19.79%) Automotive
3 197 (18.48%) Social Skills
4 100 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.94%) Finance
6 40 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (2.35%) Banking
9 21 (1.97%) Electronics
10 17 (1.59%) Games
11 16 (1.50%) Law
12 14 (1.31%) Public Sector
13 13 (1.22%) Tech for Good
14 12 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.13%) Publishing
14 12 (1.13%) Retail
15 11 (1.03%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.94%) Marketing
17 9 (0.84%) Advertising
17 9 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 280 (26.27%) Senior
2 243 (22.80%) Software Engineer
3 137 (12.85%) Principal Engineer
4 128 (12.01%) Developer
5 126 (11.82%) Systems Engineer
6 110 (10.32%) Lead
7 109 (10.23%) Development Engineer
7 109 (10.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 108 (10.13%) Software Development Engineer
9 98 (9.19%) Test Engineer
10 89 (8.35%) Analyst
11 69 (6.47%) Software Test Engineer
12 64 (6.00%) Principal Software Engineer
13 63 (5.91%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 61 (5.72%) Senior Developer
15 57 (5.35%) Senior Test Engineer
16 52 (4.88%) Senior Software Test Engineer
17 51 (4.78%) Test Analyst
17 51 (4.78%) Tester
18 46 (4.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (9.10%) .NET
2 69 (6.47%) React
3 46 (4.32%) REST
4 45 (4.22%) HTML
5 41 (3.85%) XML
6 37 (3.47%) ASP.NET
7 36 (3.38%) RESTful
8 35 (3.28%) Playwright
9 32 (3.00%) .NET Core
10 31 (2.91%) Node.js
11 29 (2.72%) AngularJS
12 28 (2.63%) Kafka
12 28 (2.63%) Web Services
13 26 (2.44%) SOAP
14 24 (2.25%) CSS
15 22 (2.06%) .NET Framework
16 19 (1.78%) Swagger
17 17 (1.59%) Entity Framework
17 17 (1.59%) GraphQL
18 15 (1.41%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.16%) Product Ownership
2 52 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 36 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 20 (1.88%) Robotics
6 18 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
7 16 (1.50%) Acoustics
8 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.41%) SCADA
9 14 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.03%) EPoS
11 11 (1.03%) IoT
11 11 (1.03%) NB-IoT
12 10 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.75%) FPGA
13 8 (0.75%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.66%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.22%) Linux
2 67 (6.29%) Windows
3 33 (3.10%) Android
4 21 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 14 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.13%) Unix
7 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.094%) Fedora
9 1 (0.094%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.094%) Rocky
9 1 (0.094%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (55.82%) Agile
2 394 (36.96%) Software Engineering
3 375 (35.18%) Test Automation
4 299 (28.05%) Validation
5 217 (20.36%) SDLC
5 217 (20.36%) Systems Engineering
6 198 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (16.51%) Computer Science
8 146 (13.70%) Waterfall
9 132 (12.38%) CI/CD
10 109 (10.23%) Mathematics
11 95 (8.91%) DevOps
12 88 (8.26%) Code Quality
13 86 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 85 (7.97%) Manual Testing
15 82 (7.69%) Scrum
16 78 (7.32%) Regression Testing
17 69 (6.47%) UML
18 67 (6.29%) Mentoring
18 67 (6.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 212 (19.89%) MATLAB
2 195 (18.29%) Python
3 181 (16.98%) Java
4 177 (16.60%) SQL
5 162 (15.20%) C#
6 127 (11.91%) JavaScript
7 83 (7.79%) C++
8 62 (5.82%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.50%) Rust
10 45 (4.22%) C
11 28 (2.63%) Bash
12 26 (2.44%) PL/SQL
13 24 (2.25%) Ada
14 15 (1.41%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.03%) Fortran
16 8 (0.75%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.75%) Swift
16 8 (0.75%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.66%) Scala
18 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 390 (36.59%) BPSS Clearance
2 365 (34.24%) Degree
3 60 (5.63%) ISTQB
4 47 (4.41%) Security Cleared
5 39 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 36 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (3.28%) SC Cleared
8 26 (2.44%) PhD
9 15 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 14 (1.31%) Chartered Engineer
10 14 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 11 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
12 9 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.84%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.38%) CISSP
15 4 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (16.89%) QA
2 43 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 20 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.56%) Def Stans
5 5 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (0.28%) GDPR
7 3 (0.28%) PMBOK
7 3 (0.28%) WCAG
8 2 (0.19%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.19%) NIST
8 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.094%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.094%) COBIT
9 1 (0.094%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.094%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.094%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (4.78%) Docker
2 11 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (1.03%) vSphere
3 7 (0.66%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.094%) HDFS
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.69%) Terraform
3 16 (1.50%) Ansible
4 12 (1.13%) Puppet
5 9 (0.84%) Argo
6 8 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (0.28%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.28%) Grafana
8 3 (0.28%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.19%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.094%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 84 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.79%) Siemens
3 69 (6.47%) Oracle
4 21 (1.97%) Keysight
5 20 (1.88%) VMware
6 16 (1.50%) Zoho
7 13 (1.22%) Google
8 9 (0.84%) UiPath
9 8 (0.75%) Rockwell
9 8 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.56%) IBM
10 6 (0.56%) New Relic
11 5 (0.47%) AVEVA
11 5 (0.47%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.47%) Splunk
11 5 (0.47%) Xilinx
12 4 (0.38%) Allen-Bradley
12 4 (0.38%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.28%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.28%) Pardot