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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 622 701 651
Rank change year-on-year +79 -50 +232
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 22 23 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.041% 0.083%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.40% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 28
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £60,313
90th Percentile £105,000 £70,000 £68,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +23.53% -19.05%

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 3,626 5,805 6,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.31% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 3,416 5,109
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,537 £42,439
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 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 +82 20 £57,500 +2.22% 11
UK excluding London +55 13 £40,000 -23.81% 10
London +64 7 £76,250 +17.31% 1
Work from Home +60 6 £40,000 -23.81% 4
South East +32 6 £90,000 +50.00% 2
South West +14 4 £40,000 +26.98%
West Midlands - 2 £31,250 - 1
Midlands - 2 £31,250 - 2
North of England +16 1 - - 5
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 (9.09%) CMS
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.09%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) InfluxDB
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) GIS
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) JIRA
2 13 (59.09%) Jenkins
3 11 (50.00%) Selenium
4 6 (27.27%) Robot Framework
5 4 (18.18%) Git
5 4 (18.18%) LoadRunner
5 4 (18.18%) Zephyr
6 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
6 3 (13.64%) Postman
6 3 (13.64%) REST Assured
7 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
7 2 (9.09%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
7 2 (9.09%) Fiddler
7 2 (9.09%) Gatling
7 2 (9.09%) GitLab
7 2 (9.09%) JMeter
7 2 (9.09%) Locust
7 2 (9.09%) Subversion
7 2 (9.09%) TestDirector
General
1 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Advertising
4 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Tester
2 4 (18.18%) Automation Tester
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Test Leader
4 2 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Manual Tester
4 2 (9.09%) QA Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Junior
5 1 (4.55%) Junior Software Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Junior Tester
5 1 (4.55%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Software Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Software Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Playwright
2 6 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (13.64%) REST
4 2 (9.09%) Kafka
4 2 (9.09%) Qt
4 2 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Over-the-Top Content
2 2 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) CentOS
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Android
3 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Test Management
2 17 (77.27%) Agile
3 16 (72.73%) Test Automation
4 15 (68.18%) Software Testing
5 12 (54.55%) Validation
6 9 (40.91%) Regression Testing
7 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
7 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (27.27%) DevOps
8 6 (27.27%) Performance Testing
9 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (22.73%) SDLC
10 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (18.18%) Data Validation
10 4 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Microservices
10 4 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Scrum
10 4 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) Bash
3 7 (31.82%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) Python
4 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 3 (13.64%) C#
6 2 (9.09%) C++
6 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) ISTQB
2 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 5 (22.73%) Degree
5 4 (18.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (9.09%) PhD
8 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) SEPA
3 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Grafana
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Nessus
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
1 4 (18.18%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (9.09%) CODA
3 2 (9.09%) Cognos
3 2 (9.09%) Roku
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft