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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 458 461
Rank change year-on-year -80 +3 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 400 655 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.63% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.69% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 240 436 779
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,582 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.55% +9.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £64,875
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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 5 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 5 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 -38 354 £45,000 -10.00% 198
England -61 321 £45,000 -18.18% 221
Work from Home -103 113 £45,996 -16.37% 56
South East +7 98 £45,000 - 74
Midlands -4 59 £42,500 -22.73% 23
East of England +52 56 £45,000 -30.77% 33
South West -41 52 £50,000 -1.48% 33
West Midlands -4 47 £42,500 -22.73% 18
North of England +9 35 £42,500 -15.00% 27
Scotland -69 32 £45,000 - 10
London -61 22 £65,000 +13.04% 30
Yorkshire +56 19 £38,750 -22.50% 7
Wales +17 16 £42,500 +14.86% 6
North West +16 14 £45,000 -10.00% 19
East Midlands -7 12 £40,000 -23.81% 5
Northern Ireland +28 5 £35,000 -
North East -17 2 £57,965 +1.69% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 202 (50.50%) Test Automation
2 143 (35.75%) Software Testing
3 130 (32.50%) Agile
4 99 (24.75%) Degree
5 74 (18.50%) Python
6 72 (18.00%) Social Skills
7 70 (17.50%) QA
8 67 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (15.75%) Test Scripting
10 56 (14.00%) Regression Testing
11 53 (13.25%) Electronics
11 53 (13.25%) JIRA
12 50 (12.50%) Selenium
12 50 (12.50%) DevOps
13 49 (12.25%) CI/CD
14 48 (12.00%) Manual Testing
15 47 (11.75%) Computer Science
15 47 (11.75%) C#
16 46 (11.50%) Security Cleared
16 46 (11.50%) Test Strategy
17 45 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
17 45 (11.25%) Microsoft
18 43 (10.75%) SQL
18 43 (10.75%) Software Engineering
18 43 (10.75%) API Testing
19 42 (10.50%) ISTQB
20 40 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
20 40 (10.00%) Git
21 39 (9.75%) Azure
22 38 (9.50%) Automotive

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 (6.75%) Confluence
2 2 (0.50%) MTS
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.25%) Simulink
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (9.75%) Azure
2 31 (7.75%) AWS
3 22 (5.50%) GitHub
4 11 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (2.00%) GCP
7 6 (1.50%) Datadog
7 6 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.50%) SaaS
7 6 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.25%) PaaS
9 4 (1.00%) Cloud Composer
9 4 (1.00%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (1.00%) dbt
9 4 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.00%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.50%) Serverless
11 1 (0.25%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.25%) Wireless
2 18 (4.50%) Bluetooth
2 18 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.75%) 5G
4 10 (2.50%) GSM
4 10 (2.50%) ISDN
4 10 (2.50%) LTE
4 10 (2.50%) PSTN
4 10 (2.50%) UMTS
5 8 (2.00%) Ethernet
6 6 (1.50%) Internet
6 6 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.25%) Network Security
8 4 (1.00%) FlexRay
8 4 (1.00%) Wireshark
8 4 (1.00%) ZigBee
9 2 (0.50%) 3G
9 2 (0.50%) DHCP
10 1 (0.25%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.25%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.25%) Redis
5 4 (1.00%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.00%) Tableau
6 3 (0.75%) MySQL
7 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 53 (13.25%) JIRA
2 50 (12.50%) Selenium
3 40 (10.00%) Git
4 31 (7.75%) Postman
5 28 (7.00%) LabVIEW
6 19 (4.75%) Appium
6 19 (4.75%) JMeter
7 18 (4.50%) Cypress.io
7 18 (4.50%) Jenkins
8 17 (4.25%) Cucumber
8 17 (4.25%) MSTest
9 15 (3.75%) Bitbucket
10 13 (3.25%) SpecFlow
10 13 (3.25%) Visual Studio
11 11 (2.75%) SoapUI
11 11 (2.75%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (2.75%) UI Automator
12 10 (2.50%) GitLab
12 10 (2.50%) JBehave
12 10 (2.50%) JUnit
General
1 72 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.25%) Electronics
3 45 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.50%) Automotive
5 31 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (7.75%) Manufacturing
6 21 (5.25%) Finance
7 17 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.25%) Retail
8 14 (3.50%) Aerospace
9 13 (3.25%) Military
10 11 (2.75%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.50%) Marketing
11 10 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.25%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.00%) Legal
14 4 (1.00%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.75%) Games
16 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.00%) .NET
2 13 (3.25%) Gherkin
2 13 (3.25%) XML
3 11 (2.75%) Playwright
3 11 (2.75%) pytest
4 10 (2.50%) HTML
5 9 (2.25%) SOAP
6 8 (2.00%) REST
7 7 (1.75%) Node.js
8 6 (1.50%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (1.50%) WebdriverIO
9 5 (1.25%) CSS
9 5 (1.25%) JSON
9 5 (1.25%) Web Services
10 4 (1.00%) DOM
10 4 (1.00%) Middleware
10 4 (1.00%) OAuth
10 4 (1.00%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.00%) XSLT
11 3 (0.75%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.75%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (3.75%) IoT
3 12 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.50%) Acoustics
4 10 (2.50%) Satnav
5 9 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.00%) Smartphone
7 7 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.50%) Chip and PIN
8 6 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.25%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.00%) NHS
10 4 (1.00%) Robotics
11 3 (0.75%) PCIe
12 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.25%) Linux
1 37 (9.25%) Windows
2 19 (4.75%) Unix
3 9 (2.25%) Android
4 8 (2.00%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.25%) CentOS
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (50.50%) Test Automation
2 143 (35.75%) Software Testing
3 130 (32.50%) Agile
4 67 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (15.75%) Test Scripting
6 56 (14.00%) Regression Testing
7 50 (12.50%) DevOps
8 49 (12.25%) CI/CD
9 48 (12.00%) Manual Testing
10 47 (11.75%) Computer Science
11 46 (11.50%) Test Strategy
12 43 (10.75%) API Testing
12 43 (10.75%) Software Engineering
13 40 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (8.25%) Non-Functional Testing
15 32 (8.00%) Test Management
16 29 (7.25%) Functional Testing
17 28 (7.00%) BDD
17 28 (7.00%) Coaching
18 27 (6.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 74 (18.50%) Python
2 47 (11.75%) C#
3 43 (10.75%) SQL
4 34 (8.50%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.75%) Java
6 24 (6.00%) C
7 15 (3.75%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.75%) C++
9 9 (2.25%) Embedded C
9 9 (2.25%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.50%) Groovy
11 5 (1.25%) Bash
12 4 (1.00%) Ruby
12 4 (1.00%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.50%) Go
13 2 (0.50%) PHP
13 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 99 (24.75%) Degree
2 46 (11.50%) Security Cleared
3 42 (10.50%) ISTQB
4 30 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.25%) HND
5 13 (3.25%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.00%) DBS Check
7 11 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.50%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.25%) HNC
9 9 (2.25%) ISEB
10 5 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.00%) CIPD
11 4 (1.00%) GIAC
11 4 (1.00%) ISEB Practitioner
11 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.75%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.75%) NVQ Level 3
13 2 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (17.50%) QA
2 15 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.75%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.75%) COSHH
4 3 (0.75%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.75%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.75%) JTAG
4 3 (0.75%) MISRA
5 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) HAZOP
System Software
1 12 (3.00%) Firmware
2 8 (2.00%) Docker
3 5 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.00%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.50%) Grafana
2 5 (1.25%) Kibana
2 5 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.75%) Functional Safety
3 3 (0.75%) Terraform
4 1 (0.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.25%) Consul
4 1 (0.25%) Iperf
4 1 (0.25%) Nmap
4 1 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.50%) Google
3 7 (1.75%) EMC
4 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.50%) Splunk
4 6 (1.50%) Thales
5 5 (1.25%) Oracle
5 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.25%) VMware
6 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.75%) Conga
6 3 (0.75%) IBM
6 3 (0.75%) Lauterbach
6 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.50%) YouTube
8 1 (0.25%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.25%) Denodo
8 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.25%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.25%) Talend