Software Testing Jobs in London

Software Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 252 147 160
Rank change year-on-year -105 +13 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 286 867 1,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.21% 2.61% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 2.73% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 233 394 637
10th Percentile £39,750 £41,325 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
England median annual salary £51,749 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.91% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,521 31,708 68,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.79% 95.34% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15,862 22,848 34,120
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,162 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,183 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the London 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
Central London +20 41 £68,750 -11.29% 10
South London -41 32 £70,000 +33.33% 4
West London -68 3 £50,000 - 3
East London +25 2 £75,000 +70.45% 4
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (2.10%) Apache
2 5 (1.75%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.70%) IIS
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.35%) WinCC
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) AutoCAD
1 8 (2.80%) Revit
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.70%) Trello
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 64 (22.38%) Azure
2 48 (16.78%) AWS
3 19 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.90%) GCP
5 10 (3.50%) SaaS
6 8 (2.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 8 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.80%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.75%) GitHub
7 5 (1.75%) Serverless
8 3 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.05%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.70%) ClickUp
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.40%) Multicast
1 4 (1.40%) Wireless
2 2 (0.70%) DNS
2 2 (0.70%) HTTP
2 2 (0.70%) Intranet
2 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) MQTT
3 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.35%) SMS
3 1 (0.35%) Softphone
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.24%) Redis
3 13 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.50%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (2.10%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.05%) MS Access
7 3 (1.05%) MySQL
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.70%) Flink
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (16.43%) Selenium
2 33 (11.54%) JIRA
3 26 (9.09%) JUnit
4 23 (8.04%) Jenkins
4 23 (8.04%) WebDriver
5 14 (4.90%) Git
6 13 (4.55%) Cypress.io
7 12 (4.20%) Cucumber
7 12 (4.20%) JMeter
8 9 (3.15%) SpecFlow
8 9 (3.15%) TestNG
9 8 (2.80%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (2.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (2.45%) GitLab
10 7 (2.45%) Maven
10 7 (2.45%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.10%) TestRail
12 4 (1.40%) Postman
12 4 (1.40%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.23%) Finance
3 35 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.49%) Legal
5 16 (5.59%) Electronics
6 12 (4.20%) Banking
6 12 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.20%) Police
7 11 (3.85%) Billing
8 10 (3.50%) Back Office
9 9 (3.15%) Marketing
9 9 (3.15%) Retail
10 8 (2.80%) Games
11 7 (2.45%) Automotive
11 7 (2.45%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.45%) Law
11 7 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.75%) Advertising
12 5 (1.75%) Local Government
13 4 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (20.98%) Senior
2 54 (18.88%) Analyst
3 49 (17.13%) Developer
4 38 (13.29%) Lead
5 26 (9.09%) Test Analyst
6 22 (7.69%) Tester
7 21 (7.34%) Software Engineer
8 20 (6.99%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.64%) C# Developer
10 16 (5.59%) Full Stack Developer
10 16 (5.59%) Senior C# Developer
10 16 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (5.59%) Systems Analyst
11 14 (4.90%) Senior Full Stack Developer
12 13 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.55%) Software Tester
13 12 (4.20%) Full Stack Engineer
14 11 (3.85%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
14 11 (3.85%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 11 (3.85%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.78%) .NET
2 33 (11.54%) React
3 28 (9.79%) REST
4 24 (8.39%) HTML
5 21 (7.34%) CSS
6 15 (5.24%) .NET Framework
7 14 (4.90%) JSON
8 13 (4.55%) Node.js
9 12 (4.20%) RESTful
9 12 (4.20%) Swagger
9 12 (4.20%) Web Services
10 11 (3.85%) Kafka
11 10 (3.50%) Blazor
11 10 (3.50%) Next.js
12 9 (3.15%) Prisma
13 8 (2.80%) .NET Core
13 8 (2.80%) Playwright
13 8 (2.80%) Unreal Engine
13 8 (2.80%) V-Ray
14 7 (2.45%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 17 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 10 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (3.50%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.15%) Augmented Reality
7 9 (3.15%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.15%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (2.80%) Fixed Income
8 8 (2.80%) HoloLens
8 8 (2.80%) HTC Vive
8 8 (2.80%) Oculus
8 8 (2.80%) Virtual Reality
9 7 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.45%) IoT
9 7 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.84%) Linux
2 15 (5.24%) Windows
3 8 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.70%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Debian
5 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (46.50%) Agile
2 116 (40.56%) Test Automation
3 73 (25.52%) DevOps
4 61 (21.33%) CI/CD
5 53 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.48%) SDET
7 44 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 42 (14.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 40 (13.99%) Computer Science
10 39 (13.64%) Test Strategy
11 36 (12.59%) Regression Testing
12 35 (12.24%) Mentoring
13 32 (11.19%) Full Stack Development
14 31 (10.84%) Performance Testing
15 30 (10.49%) Functional Testing
16 28 (9.79%) Software Architecture
17 26 (9.09%) Scrum
18 23 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
18 23 (8.04%) Test Planning
18 23 (8.04%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (24.13%) Java
2 57 (19.93%) Python
3 56 (19.58%) C#
4 44 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 42 (14.69%) SQL
6 33 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.15%) C++
7 9 (3.15%) Groovy
8 7 (2.45%) C
8 7 (2.45%) Perl
9 4 (1.40%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.40%) VB
10 3 (1.05%) Go
10 3 (1.05%) Scala
10 3 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.05%) X++
11 2 (0.70%) FoxPro (VFP)
12 1 (0.35%) JCL
12 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (26.22%) Degree
2 29 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.90%) ISTQB
5 13 (4.55%) ISEB
6 8 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.70%) PhD
8 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.35%) HNC
9 1 (0.35%) HND
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.43%) QA
2 23 (8.04%) GDPR
3 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.75%) ITGC
4 4 (1.40%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.05%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.70%) EMIR
6 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.70%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.70%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.70%) MiFID
6 2 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (10.84%) Docker
2 15 (5.24%) Firmware
3 11 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 34 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.04%) Terraform
3 8 (2.80%) Ansible
3 8 (2.80%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.45%) Puppet
4 7 (2.45%) Salt
5 1 (0.35%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.35%) Grafana
5 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 30 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.29%) Google
3 12 (4.20%) Oracle
4 11 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.80%) Adobe
5 8 (2.80%) Autodesk
5 8 (2.80%) Charles River
6 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.70%) Teradata
8 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.35%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.35%) Brocade
8 1 (0.35%) CA
8 1 (0.35%) Dell
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) Peregrine
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.35%) Siemens
8 1 (0.35%) Talend
8 1 (0.35%) Wonderware