Test Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £59,800 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 204 259
Rank change year-on-year +63 +55 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 6 19 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.22% 0.33% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.35% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 45
10th Percentile £34,540 £32,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,038 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,800 £38,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.32% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £66,200 £57,118 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,480 £61,542 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,516 5,488 7,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 95.28% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,354 4,235 3,548
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £49,136 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -10.47% +9.76%
75th Percentile £69,938 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £80,000 £83,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Yorkshire +51 2 £70,000 +20.76% 4
West Yorkshire +44 2 £44,775 +27.93% 10
North Yorkshire -2 2 - - 5
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) LTE
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) Confluence
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) HND
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Bluetooth
3 2 (33.33%) GSM
3 2 (33.33%) UMTS
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (33.33%) Electronics
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
3 2 (33.33%) 5G
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) 5G
1 2 (33.33%) Bluetooth
1 2 (33.33%) GSM
1 2 (33.33%) LTE
1 2 (33.33%) UMTS
1 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Cordova
1 1 (16.67%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) HND
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Brocade
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) CyberSource
1 1 (16.67%) EMC
1 1 (16.67%) HP
1 1 (16.67%) VMware