TestOps Job Trends

TestOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring TestOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 710 712
Rank change year-on-year +61 +2 +314
Permanent jobs citing TestOps 2 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.002% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £37,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -29.52% -
75th Percentile - - £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £37,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -29.52% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

TestOps 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 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

TestOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TestOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

TestOps job vacancy trend in the UK

TestOps
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestOps

TestOps
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TestOps within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 +77 2 - - 3
UK excluding London +64 2 - - 5
Midlands +21 1 - -
East Midlands -7 1 - -
South East - 1 - -

TestOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GNU Octave
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Graduate
1 1 (50.00%) Graduate Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Graduate Systems Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ANSYS
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Keysight
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware