Senior Test Engineer Jobs in Wales

Senior Test Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in Wales is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 133 137
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 6 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.30% 0.12% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.14% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile - - £38,000
25th Percentile - - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £40,808 - £47,500
90th Percentile £44,823 - -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 1,838 1,417 1,789
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 85.72% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 811 1,154
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £29,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured Senior Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in Wales

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in Wales.

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in Wales

Senior Test Engineer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
West Wales - 4 £40,000 -
South Wales +5 1 - -
Senior Test Engineer
UK

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) QA
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) MSTest
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce