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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 631 852
Rank change year-on-year -69 +221 +23
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 27 24 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.054% 0.036%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.65% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 24
10th Percentile £33,125 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,492 £41,344 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,438 £59,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £68,250 £62,178
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £43,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.05% -13.50% +2.04%

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 4,181 4,265 9,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 9.65% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 2,870 6,648
10th Percentile £32,525 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 18 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 18 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 -62 22 £52,500 +16.67% 9
UK excluding London -40 17 £45,000 +4.05% 8
South West -55 8 £80,000 +100.00%
Work from Home +47 7 £47,500 +18.75% 2
London -22 6 £76,250 +35.56% 1
West Midlands -16 5 £36,250 -18.54% 4
Midlands -26 5 £36,250 -18.54% 4
North of England -41 3 £80,000 +84.97%
North West +6 2 £80,000 +84.97%
South East -15 2 £57,500 -8.00% 1
North East - 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 (18.52%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) AWS
3 11 (40.74%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (29.63%) OpenShift
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) Siteimprove
5 3 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.70%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) InfluxDB
2 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) JIRA
2 11 (40.74%) Selenium
3 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (29.63%) Robot Framework
4 8 (29.63%) Zephyr
5 5 (18.52%) Cypress.io
5 5 (18.52%) Git
5 5 (18.52%) Postman
6 4 (14.81%) GitLab
7 3 (11.11%) Toad
8 2 (7.41%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (7.41%) Fiddler
8 2 (7.41%) LoadRunner
8 2 (7.41%) SoapUI
9 1 (3.70%) JUnit
9 1 (3.70%) Locust
9 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
9 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
9 1 (3.70%) XCTest
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Law
4 2 (7.41%) Legal
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Tester
2 8 (29.63%) Lead
3 6 (22.22%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) QA Leader
4 5 (18.52%) Test Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Analyst
5 4 (14.81%) Automation Tester
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) QA Analyst
5 4 (14.81%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) QA Tester
6 3 (11.11%) Senior QA Tester
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Tester
7 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Tester
7 2 (7.41%) Lead Tester
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Senior QA Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Software Tester
7 2 (7.41%) Test Leader
7 2 (7.41%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Playwright
2 8 (29.63%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (22.22%) .NET
4 4 (14.81%) pytest
5 1 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.41%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) CentOS
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Android
2 3 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Test Automation
2 23 (85.19%) Test Management
3 21 (77.78%) Agile
4 20 (74.07%) Software Testing
5 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
6 12 (44.44%) DevOps
7 10 (37.04%) Regression Testing
8 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (33.33%) Validation
9 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
9 8 (29.63%) Scrum
10 6 (22.22%) Computer Science
10 6 (22.22%) Performance Testing
10 6 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
10 6 (22.22%) SDLC
10 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (22.22%) Waterfall
11 5 (18.52%) Defect Management
11 5 (18.52%) Manual Testing
11 5 (18.52%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Bash
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) C#
2 6 (22.22%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.11%) ISTQB
5 2 (7.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (62.96%) QA
2 4 (14.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
2 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Grafana
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Kibana
2 4 (14.81%) logstash
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) vCenter Server
3 3 (11.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Red Hat
1 8 (29.63%) Splunk
2 4 (14.81%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (7.41%) Roku
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce