Test Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 101 133
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 7 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.38% 0.13% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.14% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £49,950 - £44,500
25th Percentile £50,250 £55,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,965 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.39% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,741 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 - £65,414
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,500 £57,965 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.25% +5.39% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 1,709 1,449 1,899
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 96.73% 97.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 726 1,453
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,264 £52,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,377 £85,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £51,249
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% -2.38%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Test Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies 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 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 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 -7 7 £57,500 -0.80% 3
Test Engineer
Yorkshire

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 2 January 2026, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
3 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 3 (42.86%) JMeter
3 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 3 (42.86%) LoadRunner
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Middleware
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
3 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Control-M
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (28.57%) QA
4 2 (28.57%) Tableau
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Appium

Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) JMeter
2 3 (42.86%) LoadRunner
2 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) Appium
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Hackathon
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
2 2 (28.57%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle