Test Development Engineer Jobs

Test Development Engineer
UK

The median Test Development Engineer salary in the UK is £46,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 833 1093
Rank change year-on-year +6 +260 -197
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Development Engineer 15 54 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.067% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.073% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 13 44 64
10th Percentile - £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.46% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £98,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Test Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Development Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Development Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 0 15 £46,500 -28.46% 7
Work from Home +39 13 £46,500 -41.88% 2
UK excluding London -44 13 £40,000 -33.33% 7
North of England +15 7 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £65,000 -
South East +3 6 £40,000 -33.33% 2
London +57 3 £67,500 -14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Test Development 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 Test Development Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 15 (100.00%) SDET
2 12 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
4 9 (60.00%) Python
4 9 (60.00%) Azure
5 8 (53.33%) Agile
5 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
6 6 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (40.00%) Life Science
6 6 (40.00%) Ruby
6 6 (40.00%) Linux
6 6 (40.00%) C#
6 6 (40.00%) SQL
6 6 (40.00%) Workflow
6 6 (40.00%) AWS
6 6 (40.00%) Open Source
6 6 (40.00%) Bash
6 6 (40.00%) OpenStack
6 6 (40.00%) GitHub
6 6 (40.00%) IaaS
6 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (40.00%) Coaching
6 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (33.33%) DevOps
7 5 (33.33%) Gherkin
7 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing

Test Development 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 6 (40.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) GitHub
2 6 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (13.33%) LoadUI
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 5 (33.33%) Playwright
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Life Science
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (13.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) SDET
1 15 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 12 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
4 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
4 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (40.00%) Coaching
5 6 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (40.00%) Open Source
5 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (40.00%) Workflow
6 5 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
7 4 (26.67%) API Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Data Science
8 3 (20.00%) Data-Driven Testing
9 2 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Bash
2 6 (40.00%) C#
2 6 (40.00%) Ruby
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft