Test Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £44,775 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 139 198
Rank change year-on-year +32 +59 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 2 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.15% 0.49% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.51% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 28
10th Percentile £31,708 £32,250 -
25th Percentile £35,956 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,775 £35,000 £42,557
Median % change year-on-year +27.93% -17.76% -14.89%
75th Percentile £54,456 £37,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £59,223 £41,875 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £59,800 £38,750 £40,113
% change year-on-year +54.32% -3.40% -10.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,220 2,947 4,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.38% 96.28% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 622 2,160 2,262
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £31,612
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,692 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,525 £82,668 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £48,620 £53,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% -8.26% +6.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
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 Test Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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 +42 1 £29,750 -15.00% 7
Test Engineer
Yorkshire

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CyberSource
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cordova
2 1 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cordova
1 1 (50.00%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberSource