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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 689 680
Rank change year-on-year +64 -9 +228
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 24 22 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.041% 0.060%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.65% 0.40% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 21
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £34,375 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £53,739 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +7.48% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,938 £68,125 £53,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £70,000 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.51% -8.95% -9.52%

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 3,668 5,517 6,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 10.29% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 3,171 5,211
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -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 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Top 10 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 15 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 +60 21 £48,750 -18.75% 20
UK excluding London +32 14 £40,000 -7.51% 23
London +68 7 £76,250 +17.31%
Work from Home +70 6 £40,000 +35.59% 10
South East +22 6 £90,000 +50.00%
South West +2 4 £40,000 +26.98% 4
West Midlands - 3 £27,500 - 2
Midlands - 3 £27,500 - 3
North of England +10 1 - - 8
North East - 1 - -

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 2 (8.33%) CMS
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 2 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) OpenShift
4 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.33%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) InfluxDB
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) GIS
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (70.83%) JIRA
2 14 (58.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (45.83%) Selenium
4 7 (29.17%) Robot Framework
5 4 (16.67%) Git
5 4 (16.67%) LoadRunner
5 4 (16.67%) Zephyr
6 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
6 3 (12.50%) Postman
6 3 (12.50%) REST Assured
7 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (8.33%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (8.33%) CircleCI
7 2 (8.33%) Fiddler
7 2 (8.33%) Gatling
7 2 (8.33%) GitLab
7 2 (8.33%) JMeter
7 2 (8.33%) Locust
7 2 (8.33%) Subversion
7 2 (8.33%) TestDirector
General
1 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Advertising
3 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Tester
2 5 (20.83%) Automation Tester
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Software Tester
4 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 2 (8.33%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Manual Tester
5 2 (8.33%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Junior
6 1 (4.17%) Junior Software Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Junior Tester
6 1 (4.17%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Software Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Software Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Playwright
2 7 (29.17%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) Qt
4 2 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Over-the-Top Content
2 2 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) CentOS
2 5 (20.83%) Windows
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Android
4 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Test Management
2 19 (79.17%) Agile
3 17 (70.83%) Software Testing
3 17 (70.83%) Test Automation
4 14 (58.33%) Validation
5 10 (41.67%) Regression Testing
6 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
7 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (25.00%) DevOps
8 6 (25.00%) Performance Testing
8 6 (25.00%) SDLC
9 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
9 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (20.83%) Exploratory Testing
9 5 (20.83%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
9 5 (20.83%) User Stories
10 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Bash
3 7 (29.17%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) Python
4 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.50%) C#
6 2 (8.33%) C++
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) ISTQB
2 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) DV Cleared
4 6 (25.00%) Degree
5 5 (20.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
8 2 (8.33%) PhD
9 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) SEPA
3 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Grafana
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Nessus
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
1 5 (20.83%) Splunk
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (8.33%) CODA
3 2 (8.33%) Cognos
3 2 (8.33%) Roku
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft