Senior Test Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 818 1019
Rank change year-on-year +53 +201 -279
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 64 108 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.073% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 39 63 132
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £60,741 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,750 £91,250 £84,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.28% -7.08% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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 East +6 24 £45,000 -35.71% 8
East of England +10 12 £47,500 - 4
West Midlands +12 10 £42,500 - 1
Midlands -6 10 £42,500 -34.62% 3
North of England +26 9 £57,965 -7.26% 3
South West -27 6 £52,500 +10.53% 2
London +101 4 £67,500 +22.73% 3
North West +2 4 £50,232 -50.99% 2
Yorkshire +70 3 £57,965 -7.26% 1
North East -9 2 £57,965 +3.97%
Senior Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (31.25%) Agile
2 19 (29.69%) Test Automation
3 13 (20.31%) Non-Functional Testing
4 12 (18.75%) Software Testing
5 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
5 11 (17.19%) Manufacturing
5 11 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
7 8 (12.50%) DevOps
7 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.94%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.94%) Coaching
8 7 (10.94%) Git
8 7 (10.94%) JIRA
8 7 (10.94%) Test Strategy
8 7 (10.94%) LabVIEW
8 7 (10.94%) Scrum
8 7 (10.94%) SQL
8 7 (10.94%) C#
8 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
8 7 (10.94%) Regression Testing
8 7 (10.94%) Electronics
9 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
9 6 (9.38%) Military
9 6 (9.38%) Validation
9 6 (9.38%) REST
9 6 (9.38%) Agile Testing
9 6 (9.38%) Functional Testing
9 6 (9.38%) Azure
9 6 (9.38%) Degree

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.38%) Azure
2 5 (7.81%) AWS
3 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.56%) Firebase
3 1 (1.56%) GitHub
3 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Bluetooth
1 4 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (6.25%) ZigBee
2 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.81%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.56%) MySQL
3 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
1 7 (10.94%) JIRA
1 7 (10.94%) LabVIEW
2 6 (9.38%) Postman
3 5 (7.81%) MSTest
3 5 (7.81%) SoapUI
4 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.69%) Selenium
5 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.56%) Appium
6 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.56%) GitLab
6 1 (1.56%) mountebank
6 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.56%) Subversion
General
1 11 (17.19%) Manufacturing
2 7 (10.94%) Electronics
3 6 (9.38%) Military
4 5 (7.81%) Automotive
4 5 (7.81%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.69%) Games
6 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.69%) Retail
7 2 (3.13%) Finance
8 1 (1.56%) Aviation
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) REST
2 5 (7.81%) JSON
2 5 (7.81%) SOAP
2 5 (7.81%) XML
3 1 (1.56%) .NET
3 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.56%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.56%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.56%) pytest
3 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.56%) Swagger
3 1 (1.56%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (1.56%) WireMock
3 1 (1.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (6.25%) IoT
3 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Animation
5 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Agile
2 19 (29.69%) Test Automation
3 13 (20.31%) Non-Functional Testing
4 12 (18.75%) Software Testing
5 11 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 8 (12.50%) DevOps
7 7 (10.94%) Coaching
7 7 (10.94%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.94%) Regression Testing
7 7 (10.94%) Scrum
7 7 (10.94%) Test Strategy
8 6 (9.38%) Agile Testing
8 6 (9.38%) API Testing
8 6 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (9.38%) Context-Driven Testing
8 6 (9.38%) Defect Management
8 6 (9.38%) Test Scripting
8 6 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) C#
1 7 (10.94%) SQL
2 5 (7.81%) Python
2 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
3 4 (6.25%) C
4 1 (1.56%) Go
4 1 (1.56%) Java
4 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) HNC
6 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.81%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Firmware
2 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.56%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (1.56%) EMC
2 1 (1.56%) Google
2 1 (1.56%) Salesforce