Software Testing Job Trends in Yorkshire

Software Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 133 133
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 35 26 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.46% 0.79% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.91% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 27 25 20
10th Percentile £22,000 - £40,250
25th Percentile £27,367 £25,750 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £30,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +39.34% -45.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £63,250 £72,500 £85,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,166 2,864 3,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.31% 86.63% 79.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,802 1,410 1,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,625
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
West Yorkshire -24 19 £42,500 -19.05% 17
South Yorkshire -41 4 £48,474 +58.93% 11
East Yorkshire - 2 £29,330 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £40,000 - 5
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SystmOne
2 2 (5.71%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Serverless
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (14.29%) GitHub
4 5 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.43%) Azure
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.86%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.86%) NuGet
7 1 (2.86%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Power BI
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.86%) GIS
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Spatial Data
4 1 (2.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JMeter
2 5 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 4 (11.43%) Postman
4 3 (8.57%) Selenium
5 2 (5.71%) Appium
5 2 (5.71%) Ranorex
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Aviation
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) IT Support
3 5 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Junior
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.57%) QA Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Support Officer
6 2 (5.71%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Software Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) Playwright
2 5 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (14.29%) CSS
2 5 (14.29%) HTML
2 5 (14.29%) RESTful
3 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET
3 4 (11.43%) Gherkin
3 4 (11.43%) REST
4 3 (8.57%) Flutter
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (5.71%) Blazor
5 2 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (5.71%) PySpark
5 2 (5.71%) WinForms
6 1 (2.86%) Celery
6 1 (2.86%) Node.js
6 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.43%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (11.43%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.57%) Driving Licence
3 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.57%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.86%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) NHS
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Agile
2 16 (45.71%) Test Automation
3 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (22.86%) Scrum
6 8 (22.86%) SDLC
7 7 (20.00%) Validation
8 6 (17.14%) Acceptance Criteria
8 6 (17.14%) Kanban
8 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
8 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
8 6 (17.14%) User Stories
9 5 (14.29%) API Testing
9 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (14.29%) DevOps
9 5 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
9 5 (14.29%) Software Delivery
9 5 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
2 10 (28.57%) SQL
3 8 (22.86%) C#
4 7 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (14.29%) Python
6 4 (11.43%) VB.NET
7 2 (5.71%) C
7 2 (5.71%) Dart
7 2 (5.71%) Delphi
7 2 (5.71%) VBA
8 1 (2.86%) Go
8 1 (2.86%) Java
8 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (42.86%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
3 3 (8.57%) GDPR
3 3 (8.57%) WCAG
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) DevExpress
2 2 (5.71%) Informatica
2 2 (5.71%) Sage
2 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Google