Web Testing Job Trends

Web Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Web Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 772 673 799
Rank change year-on-year -99 +126 -54
Permanent jobs citing Web Testing 3 4 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.008% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.009% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - £41,325 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,250 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -1.14% -20.45%
75th Percentile £43,750 £63,688 £61,875
90th Percentile - £74,975 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £43,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year -1.73% +15.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Web Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,774 44,506 67,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 89.17% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,302 25,213 43,010
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Web Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Web Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Web Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Web Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Testing

Web Testing
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 19 August 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
North West -12 2 £42,500 -0.87%
Work from Home -20 2 £42,500 -1.73%
North of England -38 2 £42,500 -0.87%
UK excluding London -85 2 £42,500 -1.73%
England -88 2 £42,500 -1.73% 1

Web Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Algolia
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Tester
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA