Test Engineer
UK

The median Test Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 468 469
Rank change year-on-year -68 +1 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 407 621 1,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.61% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.67% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 244 421 775
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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 -22 360 £45,000 -10.00% 184
England -55 327 £45,000 -18.18% 200
Work from Home -81 114 £45,996 -16.37% 57
South East 0 102 £45,000 - 65
Midlands -20 59 £42,500 -22.73% 22
East of England +52 55 £45,000 -30.77% 27
South West -27 55 £52,500 +1.94% 33
West Midlands +1 47 £42,500 -22.73% 16
North of England +16 35 £42,500 -15.00% 26
Scotland -57 32 £45,000 -3.23% 13
London -57 22 £65,000 +13.04% 27
Yorkshire +51 19 £38,750 -18.42% 7
Wales +20 16 £42,500 +14.86% 5
North West +8 14 £45,000 -10.00% 19
East Midlands -4 12 £40,000 -15.79% 6
Northern Ireland +26 5 £35,000 -
North East -14 2 £57,965 +1.69%
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 207 (50.86%) Test Automation
2 146 (35.87%) Software Testing
3 132 (32.43%) Agile
4 102 (25.06%) Degree
5 77 (18.92%) Python
6 74 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 73 (17.94%) QA
8 68 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (15.72%) Test Scripting
10 58 (14.25%) Regression Testing
11 55 (13.51%) Electronics
12 53 (13.02%) Selenium
12 53 (13.02%) JIRA
13 52 (12.78%) DevOps
14 49 (12.04%) Manual Testing
14 49 (12.04%) Security Cleared
14 49 (12.04%) C#
14 49 (12.04%) CI/CD
15 47 (11.55%) Computer Science
16 46 (11.30%) Test Strategy
17 45 (11.06%) ISTQB
17 45 (11.06%) Microsoft
18 44 (10.81%) Software Engineering
18 44 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
19 43 (10.57%) API Testing
19 43 (10.57%) SQL
20 42 (10.32%) Azure
21 40 (9.83%) Git
22 39 (9.58%) Continuous Integration
23 38 (9.34%) Windows

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 27 (6.63%) Confluence
2 2 (0.49%) MTS
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 18 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.23%) Simulink
4 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 42 (10.32%) Azure
2 33 (8.11%) AWS
3 22 (5.41%) GitHub
4 13 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.21%) GCP
5 9 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (1.72%) SaaS
7 6 (1.47%) Datadog
7 6 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.23%) PaaS
9 4 (0.98%) Cloud Composer
9 4 (0.98%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (0.98%) dbt
9 4 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (0.98%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.49%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.49%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.49%) Serverless
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.91%) Wireless
2 18 (4.42%) Bluetooth
2 18 (4.42%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.70%) 5G
4 10 (2.46%) GSM
4 10 (2.46%) ISDN
4 10 (2.46%) LTE
4 10 (2.46%) PSTN
4 10 (2.46%) UMTS
5 8 (1.97%) Ethernet
6 6 (1.47%) Internet
7 5 (1.23%) Network Security
7 5 (1.23%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.98%) FlexRay
8 4 (0.98%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.98%) ZigBee
9 1 (0.25%) 4G
9 1 (0.25%) RS-232
9 1 (0.25%) VLAN
9 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.21%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.23%) Redis
5 4 (0.98%) InfluxDB
5 4 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.98%) Tableau
6 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.25%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (13.02%) JIRA
1 53 (13.02%) Selenium
2 40 (9.83%) Git
3 31 (7.62%) Postman
4 29 (7.13%) LabVIEW
5 20 (4.91%) Cypress.io
6 18 (4.42%) Appium
6 18 (4.42%) Jenkins
6 18 (4.42%) JMeter
7 17 (4.18%) Cucumber
7 17 (4.18%) MSTest
8 15 (3.69%) Bitbucket
9 13 (3.19%) SpecFlow
9 13 (3.19%) Visual Studio
10 11 (2.70%) SoapUI
10 11 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (2.70%) UI Automator
11 10 (2.46%) GitLab
11 10 (2.46%) JBehave
12 9 (2.21%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.51%) Electronics
3 44 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.34%) Automotive
5 31 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (7.37%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.16%) Finance
8 17 (4.18%) Retail
9 16 (3.93%) Aerospace
9 16 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.44%) Military
11 11 (2.70%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.46%) Marketing
12 10 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.21%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.98%) Legal
15 4 (0.98%) Welsh Language
16 3 (0.74%) Games
17 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.67%) .NET
2 13 (3.19%) Gherkin
2 13 (3.19%) XML
3 12 (2.95%) Playwright
4 11 (2.70%) pytest
5 9 (2.21%) HTML
5 9 (2.21%) SOAP
6 7 (1.72%) Node.js
6 7 (1.72%) REST
7 6 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (1.47%) WebdriverIO
8 5 (1.23%) CSS
8 5 (1.23%) JSON
8 5 (1.23%) Web Services
9 4 (0.98%) DOM
9 4 (0.98%) Middleware
9 4 (0.98%) OAuth
9 4 (0.98%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.98%) XSLT
10 3 (0.74%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (3.69%) IoT
3 12 (2.95%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (2.46%) Acoustics
5 10 (2.46%) Satnav
6 9 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.97%) Smartphone
8 7 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.47%) Chip and PIN
9 6 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.98%) NHS
11 4 (0.98%) Robotics
12 3 (0.74%) PCIe
13 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.34%) Windows
2 37 (9.09%) Linux
3 19 (4.67%) Unix
4 9 (2.21%) Android
5 8 (1.97%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.49%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.25%) CentOS
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (50.86%) Test Automation
2 146 (35.87%) Software Testing
3 132 (32.43%) Agile
4 68 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (15.72%) Test Scripting
6 58 (14.25%) Regression Testing
7 52 (12.78%) DevOps
8 49 (12.04%) CI/CD
8 49 (12.04%) Manual Testing
9 47 (11.55%) Computer Science
10 46 (11.30%) Test Strategy
11 44 (10.81%) Software Engineering
12 43 (10.57%) API Testing
13 39 (9.58%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (8.35%) Test Management
15 32 (7.86%) Non-Functional Testing
16 29 (7.13%) Functional Testing
17 28 (6.88%) Coaching
17 28 (6.88%) Validation
18 27 (6.63%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 77 (18.92%) Python
2 49 (12.04%) C#
3 43 (10.57%) SQL
4 35 (8.60%) JavaScript
5 30 (7.37%) Java
6 23 (5.65%) C
7 15 (3.69%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.70%) C++
9 9 (2.21%) Embedded C
9 9 (2.21%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.47%) Groovy
11 5 (1.23%) Bash
11 5 (1.23%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.98%) Ruby
13 2 (0.49%) PHP
13 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.25%) Go
14 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (25.06%) Degree
2 49 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.06%) ISTQB
4 30 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.44%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.19%) HND
7 12 (2.95%) DBS Check
8 11 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.46%) HNC
10 9 (2.21%) ISEB
11 5 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.98%) CIPD
12 4 (0.98%) GIAC
12 4 (0.98%) ISEB Practitioner
12 4 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.74%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.74%) NVQ Level 3
14 2 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (17.94%) QA
2 15 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.70%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.74%) COSHH
4 3 (0.74%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.74%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.74%) JTAG
4 3 (0.74%) MISRA
5 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) HAZOP
System Software
1 13 (3.19%) Firmware
2 9 (2.21%) Docker
3 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.98%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.46%) Grafana
2 5 (1.23%) Kibana
2 5 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.74%) Functional Safety
3 3 (0.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.25%) Iperf
4 1 (0.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 45 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.44%) Google
3 7 (1.72%) EMC
4 6 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.47%) Thales
5 5 (1.23%) Oracle
5 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.23%) Splunk
5 5 (1.23%) VMware
6 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.74%) Conga
6 3 (0.74%) IBM
6 3 (0.74%) Lauterbach
6 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.49%) YouTube
8 1 (0.25%) Apple
8 1 (0.25%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.25%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.25%) Talend