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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 674 607 814
Rank change year-on-year -67 +207 +100
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 23 30 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.071% 0.045%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.66% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 22 29
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,900 £44,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,344 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £70,000 £60,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £43,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.72% -13.50% -4.76%

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 4,130 4,548 8,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 10.76% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,686 3,049 6,667
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,125 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Top 11 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 March 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 -35 19 £47,500 +5.56% 17
UK excluding London -44 15 £48,750 +12.72% 11
Work from Home +13 6 £47,500 +28.38% 7
London -9 5 £47,500 -15.56% 8
South East -21 5 £73,750 +22.92% 2
South West -28 5 £40,000 +26.98% 1
West Midlands 0 3 £27,500 -38.20% 2
Midlands -17 3 £27,500 -38.20% 2
North of England -58 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £62,500 - 1
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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) OpenShift
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) InfluxDB
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) JIRA
2 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
3 9 (39.13%) Robot Framework
4 8 (34.78%) Selenium
5 7 (30.43%) Zephyr
6 4 (17.39%) Cypress.io
6 4 (17.39%) Git
6 4 (17.39%) GitLab
6 4 (17.39%) Postman
7 2 (8.70%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (8.70%) Fiddler
7 2 (8.70%) REST Assured
7 2 (8.70%) TestDirector
8 1 (4.35%) Appium
8 1 (4.35%) LoadRunner
8 1 (4.35%) Locust
8 1 (4.35%) SoapUI
8 1 (4.35%) Toad
8 1 (4.35%) Xcode
8 1 (4.35%) XCTest
General
1 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Aerospace
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Tester
2 5 (21.74%) Automation Tester
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Manual Tester
5 2 (8.70%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Software Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Test Leader
5 2 (8.70%) UAT Tester
6 1 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (4.35%) QA Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Quality Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior QA Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (26.09%) Playwright
3 2 (8.70%) pytest
3 2 (8.70%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (4.35%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) CentOS
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Android
2 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
2 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Test Management
2 19 (82.61%) Agile
3 18 (78.26%) Test Automation
4 17 (73.91%) Software Testing
5 13 (56.52%) Validation
6 10 (43.48%) Regression Testing
7 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
8 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (26.09%) DevOps
10 5 (21.74%) Defect Management
10 5 (21.74%) Manual Testing
10 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (21.74%) Scrum
10 5 (21.74%) User Stories
11 4 (17.39%) Code Quality
11 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Bash
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
4 5 (21.74%) Python
5 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) Java
7 1 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 7 (30.43%) DV Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) ISTQB
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
4 3 (13.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.35%) PhD
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Grafana
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Kibana
3 2 (8.70%) logstash
3 2 (8.70%) Nessus
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Red Hat
1 7 (30.43%) Splunk
2 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.70%) CODA
2 2 (8.70%) Cognos
2 2 (8.70%) Roku
2 2 (8.70%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) HP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle