Software Testing Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Software Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 101 98
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +17
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 4 27 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.27% 1.18% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 1.52% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 45
10th Percentile £41,750 £45,875 £32,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,188 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,625 £79,688 £58,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £135,000 £67,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -45.78% +7.14% -4.55%

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 1,350 1,772 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 89.94% 77.31% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 750 1,089 1,711
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 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 13 September 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 +14 4 £52,500 -4.55% 3
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 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) mabl
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Profibus
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Coaching
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSD
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) AVEVA
2 1 (25.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens