Tester Jobs in London

Tester
England > London

The median Tester salary in London is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 366 525
Rank change year-on-year +2 +159 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 152 269 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.80% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.84% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 128 147 239
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,250 £37,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +13.64% -9.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile - £91,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,313 32,109 66,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,649 23,746 34,560
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,449 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in London

Tester
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Tester in London

Tester
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Tester in London

Tester
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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 +68 19 £55,000 -10.20% 7
South London -44 8 £70,000 +27.27%
West London -19 3 £50,000 - 3
Tester
England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Tester 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 London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 80 (52.63%) Penetration Testing
2 64 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
3 59 (38.82%) Social Skills
4 55 (36.18%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (28.29%) Red Team
6 41 (26.97%) Security Testing
7 39 (25.66%) Test Automation
8 38 (25.00%) Degree
8 38 (25.00%) Information Security
9 35 (23.03%) Application Security
10 33 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
11 32 (21.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 32 (21.05%) Metasploit
12 31 (20.39%) Computer Science
12 31 (20.39%) Linux
12 31 (20.39%) Critical Thinking
13 29 (19.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (19.08%) Network Security
13 29 (19.08%) Burp Suite
13 29 (19.08%) Kali Linux
14 28 (18.42%) Malware Analysis
14 28 (18.42%) Reverse Engineering
14 28 (18.42%) Agile
15 27 (17.76%) API Testing
15 27 (17.76%) CREST Certified
16 26 (17.11%) Azure
17 23 (15.13%) Selenium
18 22 (14.47%) Software Testing
19 21 (13.82%) Java
20 20 (13.16%) Public Sector

Tester Skill Set
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 9 (5.92%) Apache
2 5 (3.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.11%) Azure
2 11 (7.24%) AWS
3 8 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (4.61%) GCP
5 5 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.29%) GitHub
5 5 (3.29%) SaaS
6 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.32%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (19.08%) Network Security
2 14 (9.21%) Firewall
3 10 (6.58%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (5.26%) Wireless
5 3 (1.97%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
2 1 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (21.05%) Metasploit
2 29 (19.08%) Burp Suite
3 23 (15.13%) Selenium
4 16 (10.53%) Cucumber
5 13 (8.55%) JIRA
5 13 (8.55%) REST Assured
6 11 (7.24%) SpecFlow
6 11 (7.24%) TestNG
6 11 (7.24%) WebDriver
7 10 (6.58%) JUnit
8 8 (5.26%) Jenkins
9 6 (3.95%) JMeter
9 6 (3.95%) LoadRunner
10 5 (3.29%) Cypress.io
10 5 (3.29%) Gatling
10 5 (3.29%) Git
10 5 (3.29%) SoapUI
11 4 (2.63%) Appium
12 2 (1.32%) NeoLoad
12 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.21%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (6.58%) Law
6 7 (4.61%) Marketing
7 4 (2.63%) Retail
8 3 (1.97%) Billing
8 3 (1.97%) Finance
9 2 (1.32%) Front Office
9 2 (1.32%) Games
9 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.32%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.66%) Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.24%) REST
2 9 (5.92%) Apache Commons
2 9 (5.92%) Guava
2 9 (5.92%) Java Concurrency
2 9 (5.92%) WireMock
3 8 (5.26%) Playwright
4 6 (3.95%) RESTful
5 4 (2.63%) .NET
5 4 (2.63%) CSS
5 4 (2.63%) HTML
6 3 (1.97%) JSON
7 2 (1.32%) React
8 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.66%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.66%) jQuery
8 1 (0.66%) SOAP
8 1 (0.66%) Swagger
8 1 (0.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 1 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.87%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.29%) Client/Server
3 5 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.63%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (2.63%) Cyberattack
5 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.66%) IoT
7 1 (0.66%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.66%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.66%) STB
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.39%) Linux
2 29 (19.08%) Kali Linux
3 10 (6.58%) Android
3 10 (6.58%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.97%) Windows
5 1 (0.66%) Debian
5 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (52.63%) Penetration Testing
2 64 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (36.18%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (28.29%) Red Team
5 41 (26.97%) Security Testing
6 39 (25.66%) Test Automation
7 38 (25.00%) Information Security
8 35 (23.03%) Application Security
9 32 (21.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 31 (20.39%) Computer Science
10 31 (20.39%) Critical Thinking
11 28 (18.42%) Agile
11 28 (18.42%) Malware Analysis
11 28 (18.42%) Reverse Engineering
12 27 (17.76%) API Testing
13 22 (14.47%) Software Testing
14 13 (8.55%) BDD
14 13 (8.55%) Mentoring
14 13 (8.55%) Test Scripting
15 12 (7.89%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.82%) Java
2 15 (9.87%) C#
3 10 (6.58%) Python
4 8 (5.26%) SQL
5 7 (4.61%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.97%) Bash
7 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.66%) Ruby
7 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (25.00%) Degree
2 29 (19.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (17.76%) CREST Certified
4 18 (11.84%) OSCP
5 15 (9.87%) SC Cleared
5 15 (9.87%) Security Cleared
6 9 (5.92%) CHECK Team Leader
7 8 (5.26%) Cyber Scheme
8 7 (4.61%) CEH
8 7 (4.61%) CHECK Team Member
9 6 (3.95%) GIAC
9 6 (3.95%) GPEN
9 6 (3.95%) PCI QSA
9 6 (3.95%) Tigerscheme
10 5 (3.29%) ISEB
11 4 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.63%) CCSAM
11 4 (2.63%) CISSP
12 3 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.97%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.50%) QA
2 14 (9.21%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.92%) NIST
4 8 (5.26%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.95%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (3.95%) GRC
6 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.97%) GDPR
6 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (6.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (2.63%) Nessus
3 1 (0.66%) Nmap
3 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.63%) Google
3 2 (1.32%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.66%) Databricks
4 1 (0.66%) Hitachi
4 1 (0.66%) Murex
4 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle
4 1 (0.66%) Qualys
4 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.66%) Telerik