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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 716 668
Rank change year-on-year +85 -48 +243
Permanent jobs citing TestRail 23 26 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.042% 0.083%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.65% 0.43% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 31
10th Percentile £31,875 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £67,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £105,125 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 3,563 6,030 6,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.32% 9.71% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 3,510 5,328
10th Percentile £28,750 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,425
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.86% +6.23%

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 7 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 7 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 +99 22 £62,500 +11.11% 18
UK excluding London +85 14 £48,750 -7.14% 18
London +74 8 £76,250 +17.31% 1
South East +38 7 £90,000 +50.00% 3
Work from Home +83 6 £40,000 -23.81% 9
South West +29 4 £40,000 +26.98% 1
West Midlands - 2 £31,250 - 1
Midlands - 2 £31,250 - 3
North of England +28 1 - - 9
North East - 1 - - 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 (8.70%) CMS
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 2 (8.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.70%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) GIS
1 3 (13.04%) InfluxDB
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) JIRA
2 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
3 12 (52.17%) Selenium
4 5 (21.74%) Git
4 5 (21.74%) Robot Framework
5 4 (17.39%) LoadRunner
5 4 (17.39%) Zephyr
6 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
6 3 (13.04%) Postman
6 3 (13.04%) REST Assured
7 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (8.70%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (8.70%) CircleCI
7 2 (8.70%) Fiddler
7 2 (8.70%) Gatling
7 2 (8.70%) GitLab
7 2 (8.70%) JMeter
7 2 (8.70%) Locust
7 2 (8.70%) Subversion
7 2 (8.70%) TestDirector
General
1 10 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Advertising
4 2 (8.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Tester
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Automation Tester
3 3 (13.04%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Test Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Test Leader
4 2 (8.70%) Manual Tester
4 2 (8.70%) QA Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Junior Tester
5 1 (4.35%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Software Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Software Test Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Playwright
2 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (13.04%) Qt
3 3 (13.04%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Over-the-Top Content
2 2 (8.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) CentOS
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Android
3 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Agile
2 17 (73.91%) Test Management
3 16 (69.57%) Test Automation
4 15 (65.22%) Software Testing
5 11 (47.83%) Validation
6 10 (43.48%) Regression Testing
7 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
8 7 (30.43%) Performance Testing
9 6 (26.09%) DevOps
10 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (21.74%) Manual Testing
10 5 (21.74%) Scrum
10 5 (21.74%) SDLC
10 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
11 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
11 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (17.39%) ETL
11 4 (17.39%) Exploratory Testing
11 4 (17.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
2 8 (34.78%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) C++
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) ISTQB
2 7 (30.43%) Degree
3 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
4 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
5 4 (17.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (17.39%) Master's Degree
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (13.04%) PhD
7 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) SEPA
3 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Grafana
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Nessus
2 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
1 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
1 3 (13.04%) Splunk
2 2 (8.70%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (8.70%) CODA
2 2 (8.70%) Cognos
2 2 (8.70%) Roku
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Workday