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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 775 647 777
Rank change year-on-year -128 +130 -60
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 26 16 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.032% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.58% 0.43% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 4
10th Percentile £42,483 £38,500 -
25th Percentile £45,938 £40,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £45,000 £57,806
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -22.15% +22.34%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £63,112
90th Percentile £83,750 £105,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +31.25%

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 4,485 3,752 6,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.95% 7.59% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 2,232 3,922
10th Percentile £36,825 £36,825 £38,525
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,900 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,643 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.51% +2.99% -5.98%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -81 22 £65,000 +44.44% 26
UK excluding London -97 19 £47,500 +18.75% 14
South West -68 12 £80,000 +100.00% 1
Work from Home -36 7 £60,000 +50.00% 7
London -57 6 £76,250 +12.96% 12
West Midlands -33 4 £45,000 +28.57% 1
Midlands -44 4 £45,000 +28.57% 1
Wales - 3 £47,500 -
North West - 2 £80,000 - 2
North of England - 2 £80,000 - 2

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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 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (30.77%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.69%) Siteimprove
6 1 (3.85%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.85%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) InfluxDB
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Selenium
2 12 (46.15%) JIRA
3 11 (42.31%) Cypress.io
3 11 (42.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (38.46%) Zephyr
5 9 (34.62%) GitLab
6 8 (30.77%) Git
6 8 (30.77%) Robot Framework
7 5 (19.23%) Postman
8 4 (15.38%) JUnit
9 3 (11.54%) Newman
9 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
10 2 (7.69%) Toad
11 1 (3.85%) JMeter
11 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
11 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
11 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
11 1 (3.85%) TestNG
11 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Law
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Games
5 1 (3.85%) iGaming
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Lead
1 9 (34.62%) Test Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Tester
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Test Automation Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior
5 4 (15.38%) QA Leader
5 4 (15.38%) Test Leader
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Tester
6 2 (7.69%) QA Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) QA Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior QA Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior QA Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Tester
6 2 (7.69%) UAT Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (61.54%) Playwright
2 8 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (23.08%) .NET
3 6 (23.08%) pytest
3 6 (23.08%) Terraform
4 3 (11.54%) Jest
4 3 (11.54%) Node.js
4 3 (11.54%) React
4 3 (11.54%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (11.54%) Spring
4 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) CentOS
1 8 (30.77%) Linux
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Test Automation
2 21 (80.77%) Agile
2 21 (80.77%) Test Management
3 18 (69.23%) Software Testing
4 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
5 12 (46.15%) DevOps
6 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
6 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (30.77%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (30.77%) Regression Testing
8 7 (26.92%) Defect Tracking
8 7 (26.92%) Scrum
8 7 (26.92%) Test Strategy
9 6 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (23.08%) Manual Testing
9 6 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
9 6 (23.08%) Validation
10 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Bash
2 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 6 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) Ruby
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (19.23%) ISTQB
4 4 (15.38%) Degree
5 3 (11.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) QA
2 5 (19.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (11.54%) WCAG
4 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 6 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Grafana
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Ansible
2 6 (23.08%) Kibana
2 6 (23.08%) logstash
2 6 (23.08%) vCenter Server
3 2 (7.69%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Red Hat
1 8 (30.77%) Splunk
2 6 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 6 (23.08%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce