System Testing Jobs

System Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 680 700
Rank change year-on-year +214 +20 -14
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 257 238 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.28% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 118 170 147
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,625 £33,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,863 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £54,793 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +8.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

System 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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +188 231 £47,863 -14.53% 229
UK excluding London +233 214 £47,683 +0.39% 187
South East +96 71 £37,000 -40.80% 58
North of England +84 66 £47,863 +12.62% 30
Work from Home +84 63 £54,793 -0.38% 115
North West +47 60 £47,863 +19.23% 24
Midlands +70 39 £47,500 +11.76% 27
East of England +65 29 £42,500 -34.62% 40
East Midlands +51 27 £47,500 +11.76% 13
West Midlands +49 12 £47,500 -13.64% 12
South West +111 11 £45,000 -21.74% 26
London +67 10 £57,750 +5.00% 72
Yorkshire +57 5 £42,000 -11.58% 5
Scotland +110 4 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6
North East - 1 £52,500 - 1

System 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 2 (0.78%) Confluence
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.39%) Apache
2 1 (0.39%) SAS
2 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 54 (21.01%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (19.46%) Simulink
3 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.56%) SAP BPC
3 3 (1.17%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) iTrent
4 1 (0.39%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.28%) Dynamics 365
2 21 (8.17%) Power Platform
3 18 (7.00%) OCI
4 13 (5.06%) Azure
5 12 (4.67%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.33%) AWS
8 5 (1.95%) Boomi
8 5 (1.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) SaaS
10 3 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.17%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.17%) CloudFront
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.39%) BlazeMeter
12 1 (0.39%) GCP
12 1 (0.39%) GitHub
12 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 65 (25.29%) VPN
2 64 (24.90%) TCP/IP
3 20 (7.78%) ATM
3 20 (7.78%) VoIP
4 4 (1.56%) Intranet
5 1 (0.39%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.39%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.39%) GSM
5 1 (0.39%) LTE
5 1 (0.39%) MQTT
5 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.39%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.39%) SSH
5 1 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.39%) UMTS
5 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.39%) WebEx
5 1 (0.39%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.50%) Power BI
2 7 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.17%) MySQL
5 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (25.29%) Cucumber
2 64 (24.90%) Robot Framework
3 14 (5.45%) Git
4 10 (3.89%) JIRA
5 7 (2.72%) Selenium
6 5 (1.95%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.17%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.39%) GitLab
9 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.39%) JUnit
9 1 (0.39%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.39%) Postman
9 1 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 154 (59.92%) Social Skills
2 73 (28.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (25.68%) Telecoms
4 51 (19.84%) Aerospace
5 21 (8.17%) Finance
6 20 (7.78%) Military
7 19 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.89%) Aeronautics
8 10 (3.89%) Tech for Good
9 8 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.72%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.33%) General Ledger
11 6 (2.33%) Retail
12 4 (1.56%) Electronics
12 4 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.17%) Environmental Health
14 2 (0.78%) Automotive
14 2 (0.78%) Back Office
14 2 (0.78%) Billing
15 1 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 74 (28.79%) Test Engineer
2 70 (27.24%) Senior
3 68 (26.46%) Test Automation Engineer
4 54 (21.01%) Lead
4 54 (21.01%) Systems Engineer
5 51 (19.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 50 (19.46%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 50 (19.46%) Team Leader
7 21 (8.17%) Analyst
7 21 (8.17%) Consultant
7 21 (8.17%) Field Engineer
8 20 (7.78%) Field Service Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) Cloud Specialist
9 12 (4.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 12 (4.67%) Oracle Specialist
10 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Consultant
11 10 (3.89%) Application Development Manager
11 10 (3.89%) Applications Development Manager
11 10 (3.89%) Applications Manager
11 10 (3.89%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.45%) .NET
2 5 (1.95%) EDI
2 5 (1.95%) HTML
3 4 (1.56%) CSS
3 4 (1.56%) GraphQL
3 4 (1.56%) JSON
3 4 (1.56%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.56%) React
3 4 (1.56%) TensorFlow
3 4 (1.56%) XML
4 3 (1.17%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.17%) CakePHP
4 3 (1.17%) Laravel
4 3 (1.17%) Node.js
4 3 (1.17%) OpenCV
4 3 (1.17%) Playwright
4 3 (1.17%) REST
4 3 (1.17%) WPF
5 2 (0.78%) LAMP
5 2 (0.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 67 (26.07%) Linux Command Line
2 22 (8.56%) Driving Licence
3 20 (7.78%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.17%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.17%) NHS
6 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.78%) SCADA
8 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.39%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.39%) FPGA
8 1 (0.39%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.39%) IoT
8 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.39%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (28.40%) Linux
2 71 (27.63%) Windows
3 3 (1.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (48.64%) Coaching
2 114 (44.36%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (35.02%) Mentoring
4 86 (33.46%) Test Automation
5 81 (31.52%) DevOps
6 73 (28.40%) Agile
7 65 (25.29%) Test Management
8 63 (24.51%) Project Management
9 51 (19.84%) Systems Engineering
10 50 (19.46%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 50 (19.46%) Safety Engineering
10 50 (19.46%) SysML
11 41 (15.95%) Technical Leadership
12 40 (15.56%) Software Delivery
13 36 (14.01%) Line Management
14 33 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.51%) Software Engineering
16 25 (9.73%) Business Continuity
17 20 (7.78%) Innovative Thinking
17 20 (7.78%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 80 (31.13%) Python
2 76 (29.57%) JavaScript
3 69 (26.85%) Bash
4 67 (26.07%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.45%) Java
6 12 (4.67%) SQL
7 11 (4.28%) C#
8 4 (1.56%) PHP
8 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.78%) C
9 2 (0.78%) C++
9 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.78%) Perl
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.39%) Ada
10 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.39%) Rust
10 1 (0.39%) Tcl
10 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 102 (39.69%) Degree
2 54 (21.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (9.73%) Security Cleared
4 20 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.33%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.39%) HNC
9 1 (0.39%) ISEB
9 1 (0.39%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (33.85%) QA
2 10 (3.89%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.39%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.39%) MISRA
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 81 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 50 (19.46%) MathWorks
3 22 (8.56%) Oracle
4 9 (3.50%) SAP
5 5 (1.95%) Dell
6 4 (1.56%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.17%) Cisco
7 3 (1.17%) IBM
7 3 (1.17%) Minitab
8 2 (0.78%) Cognos
8 2 (0.78%) Meraki
9 1 (0.39%) EMC
9 1 (0.39%) Polycom
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.39%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.39%) Yealink