Software Testing Jobs in England

Software Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 71 108
Rank change year-on-year -111 +37 +11
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1,387 3,736 4,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.59% 4.27% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 4.46% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 1,138 1,962
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,749 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,974 83,734 131,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.66% 95.60% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 54,131 49,663 73,196
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in England.

Salary trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing 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 -39 330 £48,000 -12.73% 130
North of England -98 290 £55,000 +10.00% 83
London -105 286 £70,000 +3.70% 98
Midlands -122 197 £45,000 -2.70% 75
North West -112 167 £55,000 +10.00% 44
East of England -48 138 £55,000 -15.38% 81
South West -74 137 £50,000 +6.38% 55
West Midlands -104 125 £45,000 -5.26% 41
Yorkshire -59 104 £55,000 +10.00% 26
East Midlands -80 72 £49,329 +12.11% 35
North East -6 19 £55,000 -1.79% 13
Software Testing
UK

Software Testing
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 33 (2.38%) Confluence
2 20 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.15%) Apache
5 15 (1.08%) IIS
6 9 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.58%) WinCC
8 6 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.29%) TWiki
10 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 1 (0.072%) Moodle
12 1 (0.072%) nginx
12 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.072%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.072%) Totara
12 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.24%) Simulink
3 23 (1.66%) Stateflow
4 22 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 11 (0.79%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.58%) Revit
7 7 (0.50%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.29%) Trello
10 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) BPCS
1 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.14%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.072%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.072%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 250 (18.02%) Azure
2 187 (13.48%) AWS
3 71 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (3.60%) SaaS
5 45 (3.24%) GitHub
6 39 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
8 35 (2.52%) GCP
9 21 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (1.15%) Power Platform
11 12 (0.87%) Serverless
12 10 (0.72%) Google Play
13 9 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 8 (0.58%) Slack
15 7 (0.50%) IaaS
16 6 (0.43%) Entra ID
17 5 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
18 4 (0.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.32%) TCP/IP
2 31 (2.24%) Wireless
3 24 (1.73%) Firewall
4 22 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.44%) RS-485
6 18 (1.30%) Ethernet
6 18 (1.30%) Internet
7 17 (1.23%) 4G
8 16 (1.15%) Network Security
9 14 (1.01%) MQTT
9 14 (1.01%) RS-232
10 12 (0.87%) 3G
10 12 (0.87%) LAN
11 11 (0.79%) J1939
12 10 (0.72%) WAN
13 7 (0.50%) Modbus
14 6 (0.43%) HTTP
14 6 (0.43%) Wireshark
15 5 (0.36%) DVB
15 5 (0.36%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (7.57%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.88%) NoSQL
3 35 (2.52%) Geospatial Data
4 25 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.23%) Redis
6 15 (1.08%) Big Data
6 15 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 13 (0.94%) OLTP
9 12 (0.87%) MySQL
9 12 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.72%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.58%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.50%) Power BI
14 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.43%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.43%) Flink
Development Applications
1 165 (11.90%) JIRA
2 134 (9.66%) Selenium
3 82 (5.91%) Git
4 77 (5.55%) Jenkins
5 57 (4.11%) JUnit
6 51 (3.68%) Cucumber
7 48 (3.46%) Visual Studio
8 46 (3.32%) Postman
9 41 (2.96%) Cypress.io
10 40 (2.88%) GitLab
11 35 (2.52%) JMeter
12 32 (2.31%) WebDriver
13 29 (2.09%) Appium
14 25 (1.80%) LabVIEW
15 22 (1.59%) SpecFlow
16 19 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
17 18 (1.30%) ClearCase
17 18 (1.30%) Plastic SCM
17 18 (1.30%) TestNG
18 17 (1.23%) SoapUI
General
1 316 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 200 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
3 145 (10.45%) Finance
4 125 (9.01%) Electronics
5 83 (5.98%) Legal
6 68 (4.90%) Retail
7 58 (4.18%) Manufacturing
8 57 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 55 (3.97%) Automotive
10 53 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
11 43 (3.10%) Aerospace
12 33 (2.38%) Banking
13 29 (2.09%) Marketing
14 24 (1.73%) Law
15 18 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.23%) Military
17 16 (1.15%) Back Office
17 16 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 244 (17.59%) Senior
2 216 (15.57%) Developer
3 172 (12.40%) Software Engineer
4 165 (11.90%) Analyst
5 121 (8.72%) Lead
6 113 (8.15%) Tester
7 111 (8.00%) Test Engineer
8 70 (5.05%) Software Tester
9 69 (4.97%) Test Analyst
10 65 (4.69%) Software Developer
11 64 (4.61%) Senior Developer
12 58 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
13 56 (4.04%) Software Test Engineer
14 55 (3.97%) Architect
15 53 (3.82%) Software Architect
16 52 (3.75%) Embedded Engineer
17 50 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
18 46 (3.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
19 41 (2.96%) .NET Developer
20 39 (2.81%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (10.89%) .NET
2 78 (5.62%) HTML
3 74 (5.34%) REST
4 53 (3.82%) React
4 53 (3.82%) Web Services
5 48 (3.46%) XML
6 43 (3.10%) JSON
7 39 (2.81%) CSS
8 38 (2.74%) .NET Framework
9 36 (2.60%) SOAP
10 33 (2.38%) RESTful
11 30 (2.16%) Playwright
12 26 (1.87%) Node.js
13 25 (1.80%) Kafka
14 24 (1.73%) .NET Core
15 21 (1.51%) Spring
16 19 (1.37%) Spring Boot
17 16 (1.15%) ASP.NET
18 15 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
18 15 (1.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 90 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 82 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
3 67 (4.83%) Mobile App
4 54 (3.89%) Algorithms
5 50 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 43 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.60%) IoT
8 29 (2.09%) Embedded Systems
9 25 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.73%) Cloud Native
10 24 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
12 20 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.15%) Driving Licence
14 14 (1.01%) Client/Server
14 14 (1.01%) FPGA
14 14 (1.01%) Robotics
15 11 (0.79%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 172 (12.40%) Linux
2 142 (10.24%) Windows
3 36 (2.60%) Android
4 28 (2.02%) Unix
5 22 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.51%) Embedded Linux
7 18 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 14 (1.01%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (0.58%) Debian
11 8 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
11 8 (0.58%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.36%) Windows Mobile
13 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.14%) CentOS
15 2 (0.14%) VMS
15 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (38.93%) Agile
2 437 (31.51%) Test Automation
3 317 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 304 (21.92%) Software Engineering
5 254 (18.31%) DevOps
6 220 (15.86%) Computer Science
7 184 (13.27%) CI/CD
8 154 (11.10%) Mentoring
9 146 (10.53%) SDLC
10 136 (9.81%) Test Strategy
11 114 (8.22%) Coaching
12 113 (8.15%) Scrum
13 108 (7.79%) Regression Testing
14 107 (7.71%) Functional Testing
15 103 (7.43%) Test Scripting
16 93 (6.71%) Project Management
16 93 (6.71%) SDET
17 88 (6.34%) User Acceptance Testing
18 87 (6.27%) TDD
19 81 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 239 (17.23%) Python
2 238 (17.16%) C#
3 205 (14.78%) SQL
4 177 (12.76%) Java
5 153 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 150 (10.81%) C
7 90 (6.49%) C++
8 72 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 46 (3.32%) Embedded C
10 44 (3.17%) Bash
11 43 (3.10%) MATLAB
12 29 (2.09%) Fortran
13 26 (1.87%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.80%) Perl
15 24 (1.73%) Groovy
16 18 (1.30%) VB.NET
17 17 (1.23%) Go
18 16 (1.15%) PL/SQL
19 14 (1.01%) Kotlin
20 13 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 438 (31.58%) Degree
2 181 (13.05%) Security Cleared
3 117 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 90 (6.49%) ISTQB
5 80 (5.77%) SC Cleared
6 32 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.24%) ISEB
8 26 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.59%) PhD
11 17 (1.23%) HND
12 15 (1.08%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.65%) IIBA
14 7 (0.50%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.43%) CSPO
16 5 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
16 5 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.29%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (18.96%) QA
2 50 (3.60%) GDPR
3 35 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 28 (2.02%) WCAG
5 23 (1.66%) MISRA
6 14 (1.01%) ISO 26262
7 12 (0.87%) Automotive SPICE
7 12 (0.87%) AUTOSAR
7 12 (0.87%) SLA
8 8 (0.58%) PSD2
9 7 (0.50%) DO-254
9 7 (0.50%) IEC 61508
9 7 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 6 (0.43%) Def Stans
10 6 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
11 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 5 (0.36%) ITGC
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (5.55%) Firmware
2 75 (5.41%) Docker
3 19 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
4 18 (1.30%) Active Directory
5 12 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.29%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.14%) NFS
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (5.55%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.74%) Terraform
3 16 (1.15%) SCCM
4 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.87%) Ansible
6 9 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.58%) Puppet
8 7 (0.50%) Salt
9 6 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.29%) Grafana
10 4 (0.29%) Wonderware InTouch
11 3 (0.22%) Kibana
12 2 (0.14%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.072%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.072%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 214 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 48 (3.46%) Google
3 46 (3.32%) Oracle
4 43 (3.10%) IBM
5 26 (1.87%) VMware
6 20 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.30%) Lauterbach
7 18 (1.30%) SAP
8 16 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.01%) HP
10 12 (0.87%) Adobe
10 12 (0.87%) Rockwell
11 11 (0.79%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.79%) Siemens
12 10 (0.72%) Citrix
13 8 (0.58%) Autodesk
13 8 (0.58%) Charles River
13 8 (0.58%) Duck Creek
13 8 (0.58%) Sage