TestRail Job Trends

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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 719 682
Rank change year-on-year +72 -37 +274
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 17 20 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.029% 0.089%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.46% 0.34% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 34
10th Percentile £37,750 £41,650 £34,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £63,112 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.82% +20.21% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £66,556 £60,000
90th Percentile £105,375 £74,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% +17.98% -15.24%

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 3,673 5,950 6,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.34% 8.78% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,304 3,301 5,598
10th Percentile £32,125 £37,574 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% +4.55%

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 5 November 2025.

Salary histogram for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Top 8 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 5 November 2025. 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 +109 17 £76,250 +20.82% 36
London +57 9 £76,250 +20.82% 16
UK excluding London +70 8 £65,000 +23.81% 24
Work from Home +59 4 £40,000 -23.81% 25
South East +36 4 £90,000 +71.43% 10
South West - 3 £40,000 - 1
Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 3

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) GIS
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) JIRA
2 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 10 (58.82%) Selenium
3 5 (29.41%) Git
4 4 (23.53%) LoadRunner
4 4 (23.53%) Zephyr
5 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
5 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
5 2 (11.76%) Gatling
5 2 (11.76%) JMeter
5 2 (11.76%) Locust
5 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
5 2 (11.76%) Robot Framework
5 2 (11.76%) Subversion
5 2 (11.76%) TestDirector
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Advertising
5 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Test Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) QA Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) QA Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Workday Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Software Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Manual Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Software Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Playwright
2 3 (17.65%) Qt
3 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) CentOS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 11 (64.71%) Software Testing
3 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
4 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (52.94%) Test Management
5 8 (47.06%) Performance Testing
6 7 (41.18%) Regression Testing
7 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 5 (29.41%) Manual Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
8 4 (23.53%) DevOps
8 4 (23.53%) ETL
8 4 (23.53%) Microservices
8 4 (23.53%) SDLC
8 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
8 4 (23.53%) Validation
8 4 (23.53%) Waterfall
9 3 (17.65%) Exploratory Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Parallel Programming
9 3 (17.65%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Python
4 5 (29.41%) Bash
5 3 (17.65%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) C++
6 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) ISTQB
2 8 (47.06%) Degree
3 4 (23.53%) Master's Degree
4 3 (17.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (17.65%) PhD
5 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) SEPA
3 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Nessus
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (11.76%) CODA
2 2 (11.76%) Cognos
2 2 (11.76%) Workday
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk