Gurock TestRail
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring TestRail skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 688 629 852
Rank change year-on-year -59 +223 +52
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 29 25 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.058% 0.033%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.70% 0.60% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 22
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -12.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £57,813
90th Percentile £83,750 £67,750 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £43,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.05% -13.50% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

TestRail falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,116 4,177 9,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 9.72% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,694 2,942 6,731
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

TestRail job vacancy trend in the UK

TestRail
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestRail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestRail

TestRail
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TestRail over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Salary histogram for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TestRail within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 -50 25 £52,500 +16.67% 11
UK excluding London -49 19 £45,000 +4.05% 8
South West -43 9 £80,000 +153.97%
Work from Home 0 8 £47,500 +12.43% 5
London 0 7 £76,250 +60.53% 3
West Midlands -9 5 £36,250 -18.54% 1
Midlands -31 5 £36,250 -18.54% 1
South East -34 3 £57,500 -4.17% 2
North of England -60 3 £80,000 +84.97% 1
North West -29 2 £80,000 +84.97%
North East - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £62,500 -

TestRail
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 5 (17.24%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) AWS
3 12 (41.38%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (31.03%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.34%) GCP
5 3 (10.34%) Siteimprove
5 3 (10.34%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.45%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) InfluxDB
2 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) JIRA
2 12 (41.38%) Selenium
3 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
4 10 (34.48%) Robot Framework
5 8 (27.59%) Zephyr
6 6 (20.69%) Cypress.io
7 5 (17.24%) Git
7 5 (17.24%) GitLab
7 5 (17.24%) Postman
8 3 (10.34%) Toad
9 2 (6.90%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (6.90%) Fiddler
9 2 (6.90%) LoadRunner
9 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
9 2 (6.90%) SoapUI
10 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
10 1 (3.45%) fastlane
10 1 (3.45%) Gatling
10 1 (3.45%) Locust
10 1 (3.45%) XCTest
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Law
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Advertising
5 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Tester
2 9 (31.03%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) Automation Tester
3 5 (17.24%) QA Leader
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Test Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) QA Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Tester
5 3 (10.34%) QA Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Senior QA Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Test Leader
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior QA Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Software Tester
6 2 (6.90%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) Playwright
2 10 (34.48%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (20.69%) .NET
4 4 (13.79%) pytest
5 2 (6.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) CentOS
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Android
2 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
2 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (93.10%) Test Automation
2 26 (89.66%) Test Management
3 23 (79.31%) Agile
3 23 (79.31%) Software Testing
4 16 (55.17%) CI/CD
5 13 (44.83%) DevOps
6 11 (37.93%) Regression Testing
6 11 (37.93%) Validation
7 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
7 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (27.59%) Scrum
9 7 (24.14%) Defect Management
10 6 (20.69%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
10 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (20.69%) Performance Testing
10 6 (20.69%) Scenario Testing
10 6 (20.69%) SDLC
10 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (20.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Bash
2 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
3 6 (20.69%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (20.69%) Degree
3 6 (20.69%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.24%) ISTQB
5 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (10.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (58.62%) QA
2 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (10.34%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Grafana
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
3 4 (13.79%) Kibana
3 4 (13.79%) logstash
3 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
4 3 (10.34%) HP ALM
5 1 (3.45%) Nessus
5 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Red Hat
1 9 (31.03%) Splunk
2 4 (13.79%) Atlassian
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) HP
4 2 (6.90%) Roku
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce