Software Testing Jobs in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 122 144
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 -51
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 57 128 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.90% 2.48% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.53% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 41 47 54
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £27,875
25th Percentile £38,750 £39,000 £31,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £50,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year +15.93% -0.34% +14.68%
75th Percentile £95,000 £58,875 £64,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £67,500 £115,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,574 5,056 4,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.91% 98.06% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 2,317 3,080
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,025 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,563 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,393 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +7.37%

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 13 May 2024.

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 May 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
Leeds 0 55 £57,965 +13.10% 9
Wakefield +19 1 - -
Ilkley - 1 £42,500 -
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 8 (14.04%) Confluence
2 7 (12.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 15 (26.32%) AWS
3 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (14.04%) GCP
3 8 (14.04%) Slack
4 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.51%) SaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.75%) Boomi
7 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) Internet
2 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Data Lake
1 8 (14.04%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (14.04%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.51%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.75%) Power BI
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Selenium
2 11 (19.30%) JIRA
3 9 (15.79%) Cucumber
3 9 (15.79%) JUnit
4 8 (14.04%) CircleCI
4 8 (14.04%) Git
4 8 (14.04%) GitLab
4 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
5 7 (12.28%) Postman
6 5 (8.77%) HP UFT
6 5 (8.77%) JMeter
6 5 (8.77%) LoadRunner
6 5 (8.77%) MSTest
6 5 (8.77%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (7.02%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (3.51%) IntelliJ
8 2 (3.51%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.75%) PHPUnit
General
1 22 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Marketing
4 4 (7.02%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Retail
6 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Analyst
1 13 (22.81%) Lead
2 11 (19.30%) Test Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Applications Support
3 7 (12.28%) Applications Support Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Support Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) Software Test Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Engineering Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Software Engineering Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Software Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Software Tester
5 4 (7.02%) Tester
6 3 (5.26%) Backend Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) RESTful
2 6 (10.53%) Web Services
3 4 (7.02%) .NET
3 4 (7.02%) Gherkin
3 4 (7.02%) HTML
3 4 (7.02%) XML
3 4 (7.02%) XSLT
4 2 (3.51%) ADO
4 2 (3.51%) Node.js
4 2 (3.51%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) Behat
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Mobile App
2 6 (10.53%) NHS
3 3 (5.26%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Unix
2 6 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Mac OS X
3 3 (5.26%) Windows
4 1 (1.75%) Android
4 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) Test Automation
2 29 (50.88%) Agile
3 20 (35.09%) DevOps
4 18 (31.58%) Coaching
5 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 15 (26.32%) Roadmaps
6 14 (24.56%) BDD
7 13 (22.81%) Mentoring
7 13 (22.81%) Regression Testing
7 13 (22.81%) Software Engineering
8 11 (19.30%) Test Scripting
9 10 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (17.54%) Project Management
10 8 (14.04%) API Design
10 8 (14.04%) Data Management
10 8 (14.04%) Functional Testing
10 8 (14.04%) Microservices
10 8 (14.04%) Mobile Application Development
10 8 (14.04%) Mobile Development
10 8 (14.04%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (38.60%) SQL
2 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.28%) C#
4 4 (7.02%) Groovy
4 4 (7.02%) Python
5 3 (5.26%) Java
6 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Degree
2 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.77%) ISTQB
4 5 (8.77%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (7.02%) CIPD
5 4 (7.02%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 8 (14.04%) GDPR
2 8 (14.04%) PSD2
3 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (7.02%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.05%) Google
3 8 (14.04%) Duck Creek
4 4 (7.02%) VMware
5 3 (5.26%) Splunk
6 2 (3.51%) BT
7 1 (1.75%) Dell
7 1 (1.75%) SAP