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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 103 94
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 18 3 23
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.43% 0.19% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.21% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 8
10th Percentile £16,000 £45,500 £40,875
25th Percentile £30,750 £48,125 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £47,500 £75,625 £61,875
90th Percentile £53,500 £84,250 £85,125
Yorkshire median annual salary £44,447 £30,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +45.73% -44.55% -

All Process & 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 2,896 1,425 1,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.78% 90.94% 77.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,187 735 886
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,303
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £74,985 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,065 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.61% -9.52% -0.94%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Software Testing job vacancy trend 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 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 2026. 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 -33 10 £45,000 -34.55% 13
Huddersfield - 3 £16,000 -
Wakefield - 2 £42,500 -
Bradford -4 1 £31,500 -42.73% 3
Castleford - 1 £45,000 -
Software Testing
Yorkshire

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Serverless
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JMeter
2 5 (27.78%) Cypress.io
2 5 (27.78%) GitLab
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) JIRA
3 4 (22.22%) Postman
4 3 (16.67%) Selenium
5 2 (11.11%) Appium
5 2 (11.11%) Ranorex
6 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Test Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) IT Support
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Junior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Software Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Tester
5 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Playwright
2 5 (27.78%) RESTful
3 4 (22.22%) Gherkin
4 2 (11.11%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (11.11%) Blazor
4 2 (11.11%) PySpark
4 2 (11.11%) WinForms
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) Flutter
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Scrum
4 6 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (33.33%) Kanban
4 6 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (27.78%) API Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Process Improvement
5 5 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (27.78%) SDLC
5 5 (27.78%) Security Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Software Delivery
5 5 (27.78%) User Stories
6 4 (22.22%) Case Management
6 4 (22.22%) Defect Management
6 4 (22.22%) Integration Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Regression Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 4 (22.22%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) Delphi
5 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
5 2 (11.11%) VBA
6 1 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) DevExpress
1 2 (11.11%) Informatica
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) SAP