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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 179 74
Rank change year-on-year +14 -105 +37
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1,065 1,631 4,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.93% 1.64% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.92% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 615 1,277 1,320
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,875 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,329 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.50% -1.34% +8.70%

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 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +27 977 £56,500 +7.62% 783
UK excluding London +29 868 £55,000 +11.50% 631
Midlands +114 348 £45,000 - 93
Work from Home -50 265 £57,500 +4.55% 480
West Midlands +90 222 £41,250 -8.33% 59
South East +16 211 £60,000 +25.00% 193
London +11 168 £64,500 -11.03% 256
North of England -34 151 £52,500 -4.55% 132
East Midlands +87 126 £47,500 -3.71% 28
North West -50 103 £57,560 +4.65% 78
South West +28 59 £51,600 +3.20% 78
Scotland +35 42 £55,000 +22.22% 43
Yorkshire +13 41 £32,250 -41.36% 36
East of England -36 37 £53,000 -3.64% 80
Wales +17 17 £60,000 +26.32% 21
North East +34 7 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Northern Ireland +31 3 - - 15

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 (0.85%) WinCC
4 5 (0.47%) Apache
4 5 (0.47%) IIS
5 4 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.094%) CICS
8 1 (0.094%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.094%) JBoss
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 212 (19.91%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
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 (9.86%) AWS
2 102 (9.58%) Azure
3 63 (5.92%) SaaS
4 45 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (2.82%) GCP
6 24 (2.25%) GitHub
7 21 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (1.88%) Serverless
9 19 (1.78%) Power Platform
10 15 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (0.94%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.66%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
17 5 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
18 4 (0.38%) Figma
19 3 (0.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.13%) 5G
1 12 (1.13%) LTE
2 11 (1.03%) Bluetooth
2 11 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (0.94%) Ethernet
4 8 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.56%) Internet
5 6 (0.56%) Profibus
6 5 (0.47%) HTTP
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%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.78%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (1.60%) MongoDB
5 16 (1.50%) MySQL
6 15 (1.41%) OLTP
7 12 (1.13%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.03%) Power BI
9 9 (0.85%) Redis
9 9 (0.85%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.38%) Big Data
12 4 (0.38%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.28%) Couchbase
13 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.28%) Hazelcast
14 2 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 90 (8.45%) Selenium
2 88 (8.26%) JIRA
3 78 (7.32%) Git
4 41 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 40 (3.76%) Postman
6 34 (3.19%) Jenkins
7 30 (2.82%) JUnit
8 26 (2.44%) JMeter
9 22 (2.07%) SpecFlow
10 21 (1.97%) eggPlant
11 20 (1.88%) Appium
12 18 (1.69%) TestNG
12 18 (1.69%) TestRail
13 17 (1.60%) Cucumber
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 (0.85%) Gatling
General
1 260 (24.41%) Aerospace
2 211 (19.81%) Automotive
3 199 (18.69%) Social Skills
4 102 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (7.04%) Finance
6 39 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (2.35%) Banking
9 21 (1.97%) Electronics
10 19 (1.78%) Law
11 16 (1.50%) Games
12 15 (1.41%) Tech for Good
13 14 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.31%) Public Sector
13 14 (1.31%) Publishing
14 13 (1.22%) Health Technology
15 12 (1.13%) Retail
16 10 (0.94%) Legal
17 9 (0.85%) Advertising
17 9 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 291 (27.32%) Senior
2 242 (22.72%) Software Engineer
3 137 (12.86%) Principal Engineer
4 126 (11.83%) Systems Engineer
5 122 (11.46%) Developer
6 110 (10.33%) Lead
7 109 (10.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 108 (10.14%) Development Engineer
8 108 (10.14%) Test Engineer
9 107 (10.05%) Software Development Engineer
10 89 (8.36%) Analyst
11 79 (7.42%) Software Test Engineer
12 64 (6.01%) Principal Software Engineer
12 64 (6.01%) Senior Test Engineer
13 63 (5.92%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 62 (5.82%) Senior Developer
15 59 (5.54%) Senior Software Test Engineer
16 53 (4.98%) Test Analyst
17 50 (4.69%) Tester
18 44 (4.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (8.92%) .NET
2 73 (6.85%) React
3 45 (4.23%) REST
4 42 (3.94%) HTML
5 38 (3.57%) XML
6 37 (3.47%) Playwright
6 37 (3.47%) RESTful
7 36 (3.38%) ASP.NET
8 33 (3.10%) Node.js
9 32 (3.00%) .NET Core
10 28 (2.63%) AngularJS
10 28 (2.63%) Kafka
11 27 (2.54%) Web Services
12 25 (2.35%) SOAP
13 22 (2.07%) CSS
14 21 (1.97%) .NET Framework
14 21 (1.97%) Swagger
15 18 (1.69%) GraphQL
16 16 (1.50%) Entity Framework
17 14 (1.31%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 50 (4.69%) Mobile App
3 35 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (2.07%) Cloud Native
5 18 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
5 18 (1.69%) Robotics
6 16 (1.50%) Acoustics
7 15 (1.41%) SCADA
8 14 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.13%) EPoS
10 12 (1.13%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.03%) IoT
11 11 (1.03%) NB-IoT
12 10 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.75%) FPGA
14 7 (0.66%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.66%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.56%) Management Information System
15 6 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (7.14%) Linux
2 69 (6.48%) Windows
3 31 (2.91%) Android
4 20 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.50%) 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
1 598 (56.15%) Agile
2 386 (36.24%) Software Engineering
3 381 (35.77%) Test Automation
4 305 (28.64%) Validation
5 219 (20.56%) SDLC
6 217 (20.38%) Systems Engineering
7 196 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
8 183 (17.18%) Computer Science
9 153 (14.37%) Waterfall
10 134 (12.58%) CI/CD
11 110 (10.33%) Mathematics
12 94 (8.83%) DevOps
13 89 (8.36%) Manual Testing
14 88 (8.26%) Code Quality
15 86 (8.08%) Scrum
16 84 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 80 (7.51%) Regression Testing
18 75 (7.04%) UML
19 70 (6.57%) Verification and Validation
20 69 (6.48%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 212 (19.91%) MATLAB
2 193 (18.12%) Python
3 181 (17.00%) Java
4 178 (16.71%) SQL
5 156 (14.65%) C#
6 127 (11.92%) JavaScript
7 82 (7.70%) C++
8 67 (6.29%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.51%) Rust
10 45 (4.23%) C
11 31 (2.91%) Ada
12 28 (2.63%) Bash
13 25 (2.35%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.50%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.03%) Fortran
16 8 (0.75%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.75%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.66%) Scala
17 7 (0.66%) Swift
18 5 (0.47%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 392 (36.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 373 (35.02%) Degree
3 67 (6.29%) ISTQB
4 48 (4.51%) Security Cleared
5 39 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 36 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.38%) SC Cleared
7 26 (2.44%) PhD
8 19 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 14 (1.31%) Chartered Engineer
9 14 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.66%) 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 (16.90%) QA
2 50 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 19 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.56%) Def Stans
5 5 (0.47%) Data Quality
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%) GxP
8 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.19%) NIST
9 1 (0.094%) COBIT
9 1 (0.094%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.094%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.094%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.094%) JTAG
9 1 (0.094%) MISRA
9 1 (0.094%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (4.69%) Docker
2 12 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.03%) vSphere
4 6 (0.56%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.094%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.094%) HDFS
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.78%) Terraform
3 17 (1.60%) Ansible
4 12 (1.13%) Puppet
5 9 (0.85%) Argo
6 7 (0.66%) 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 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.79%) Siemens
3 68 (6.38%) Oracle
4 21 (1.97%) Keysight
4 21 (1.97%) VMware
5 16 (1.50%) Zoho
6 12 (1.13%) Google
7 9 (0.85%) UiPath
8 8 (0.75%) Rockwell
8 8 (0.75%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.47%) AVEVA
9 5 (0.47%) IBM
9 5 (0.47%) New Relic
9 5 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.47%) Splunk
9 5 (0.47%) Xilinx
10 4 (0.38%) Allen-Bradley
10 4 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.28%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.19%) CA Agile Central