Exploratory Testing Jobs in the North of England

Exploratory Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 395 422
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 -72
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 11 15 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.056% 0.094% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.098% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 29
10th Percentile £36,250 - £42,250
25th Percentile £40,938 £37,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -17.48% +28.75%
75th Percentile £47,500 £44,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £52,750 £56,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Exploratory 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,767 15,361 17,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.40% 96.77% 94.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,705 7,790 10,781
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £81,250 £80,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the North of England

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the North of England.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in the North of England

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in the North of England

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North West -6 6 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Yorkshire +64 5 £45,000 +5.88%
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Selenium
2 4 (36.36%) Appium
2 4 (36.36%) Protractor
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Automotive
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Tester
2 4 (36.36%) Automation Tester
3 3 (27.27%) Software Tester
4 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Project Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Ajax
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) HTML5
2 1 (9.09%) jQuery
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Client/Server
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Regression Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Software Testing
5 4 (36.36%) API Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) Scrum
5 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
6 3 (27.27%) BDD
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
6 3 (27.27%) SDLC
7 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Stress Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Test Management
7 2 (18.18%) Test Planning
7 2 (18.18%) Usability Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) ISTQB
2 2 (18.18%) HND
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAI