Software Testing Jobs in West Sussex

Software Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Sussex requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 65 78
Rank change year-on-year +34 +13 -49
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 6 11 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.02% 1.53% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.82% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £52,000 £39,000 £50,250
25th Percentile - £41,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £56,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,400 £111,250 £65,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -12.73% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Software 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 in West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 606 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 95.96% 84.17% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 178 411 431
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Salary Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in West Sussex.

Salary trend for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in West Sussex over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 15 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
Chichester - 4 £55,000 - 2
Worthing +10 1 £50,000 -10.71%
Burgess Hill +2 1 £75,000 +7.14% 3
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (16.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) Couchbase
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MagicDraw
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Acoustics
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) SysML
2 2 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Ada
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk