Test Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Test Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Test Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 210 193
Rank change year-on-year +28 -17 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 11 47 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.60% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.64% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 20
10th Percentile £55,750 £40,400 £41,450
25th Percentile £56,875 £41,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% +14.58%
75th Percentile £64,375 £59,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £61,346 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 the West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,723 7,339 5,520
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 94.44% 90.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 5,465 3,256
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the West Midlands

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the West Midlands

Test Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Warwickshire -18 9 - - 41
Staffordshire +22 1 £65,000 +79.31% 12
Shropshire +15 1 £55,000 -8.71% 11
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 West Midlands region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Test Management
2 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 5 (45.45%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Defect Management
3 4 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 4 (36.36%) User Stories
3 4 (36.36%) HP ALM
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) MuleSoft
3 4 (36.36%) SCADA
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 4 (36.36%) HP
3 4 (36.36%) Middleware
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (27.27%) QA
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Line Management
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Robot Framework

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (18.18%) Robot Framework
3 1 (9.09%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) SCADA
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Test Management
2 5 (45.45%) Defect Management
2 5 (45.45%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) User Stories
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Data Acquisition
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Line Management
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) System Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Data Transformation
6 1 (9.09%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) Safety Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) HP
1 4 (36.36%) MuleSoft
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft