Software Testing Jobs in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 89 104 126
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 +18
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 14 57 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.11% 1.91% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 2.22% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13 41 47
10th Percentile £33,200 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,965 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.02% +15.93% -0.34%
75th Percentile £140,677 £95,000 £58,875
90th Percentile - £100,000 £67,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,201 2,564 5,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 94.94% 85.81% 98.08%
Number of salaries quoted 698 1,863 2,293
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,000 £34,025
25th Percentile £38,125 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,964 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +13 14 £80,000 +38.02% 8
Software Testing
Yorkshire

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) GCP
1 6 (42.86%) SaaS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) mabl
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
1 1 (7.14%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) Redis
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Advertising
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Lead
2 6 (42.86%) Lead Software Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Control Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (42.86%) Express.js
2 6 (42.86%) Kafka
2 6 (42.86%) Node.js
2 6 (42.86%) React
3 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 2 (14.29%) Flask
3 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) ADO
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (7.14%) Blazor
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 6 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Mentoring
2 8 (57.14%) SDLC
3 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 6 (42.86%) Low Latency
4 6 (42.86%) Operational Stability
4 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Coaching
7 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 2 (14.29%) Innovative Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) Microservices
7 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) C#
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
3 6 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (7.14%) MCSD
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) AVEVA
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Rockwell
2 1 (7.14%) Siemens