Software Testing Jobs in the North of England

Software Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 74 105
Rank change year-on-year -76 +31 -15
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 320 711 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.61% 4.51% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 4.66% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 220 150 257
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,650
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.04% +22.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year -10.71% +3.23% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,940 15,250 17,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.23% 96.75% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,785 7,790 10,681
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%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the North of England

Software 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 Software Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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 -83 187 £55,000 +10.00% 37
Yorkshire -26 113 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North East -14 20 £55,000 -1.79% 7
Software Testing
England

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.06%) Confluence
2 7 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.94%) IIS
3 3 (0.94%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.63%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.19%) BPCS
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (23.44%) Azure
2 65 (20.31%) AWS
3 16 (5.00%) SaaS
4 14 (4.38%) GCP
5 13 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.13%) Google Play
6 10 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.50%) GitHub
8 7 (2.19%) Slack
9 4 (1.25%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 2 (0.63%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.63%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.63%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.31%) Kong
12 1 (0.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.19%) Wireless
2 22 (6.88%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (4.06%) 3G
3 13 (4.06%) 4G
3 13 (4.06%) Internet
3 13 (4.06%) MQTT
3 13 (4.06%) RS-485
4 5 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.25%) Firewall
5 4 (1.25%) LAN
5 4 (1.25%) RS-232
6 2 (0.63%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.31%) Multicast
7 1 (0.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.56%) Geospatial Data
2 14 (4.38%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.81%) MySQL
5 7 (2.19%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.25%) Big Data
8 2 (0.63%) Power BI
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (11.88%) Git
2 34 (10.63%) Selenium
3 25 (7.81%) JIRA
4 19 (5.94%) Postman
5 18 (5.63%) Appium
6 16 (5.00%) JUnit
7 14 (4.38%) Visual Studio
8 12 (3.75%) Cypress.io
9 10 (3.13%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.81%) Jenkins
11 8 (2.50%) GitLab
11 8 (2.50%) JMeter
12 7 (2.19%) CircleCI
12 7 (2.19%) IntelliJ
13 6 (1.88%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.88%) Jasmine
13 6 (1.88%) LoadRunner
13 6 (1.88%) Subversion
14 5 (1.56%) Android Studio
14 5 (1.56%) HP UFT
General
1 76 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.13%) Finance
3 34 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.63%) Legal
4 18 (5.63%) Retail
5 17 (5.31%) Electronics
6 14 (4.38%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.75%) Mandarin Language
9 10 (3.13%) Automotive
10 8 (2.50%) Banking
11 7 (2.19%) Marketing
12 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.25%) Back Office
13 4 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.63%) Law
14 2 (0.63%) Military
14 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 82 (25.63%) Developer
2 65 (20.31%) Senior
3 51 (15.94%) Software Engineer
4 30 (9.38%) .NET Developer
5 27 (8.44%) Embedded Engineer
5 27 (8.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 24 (7.50%) Senior Developer
7 23 (7.19%) Architect
7 23 (7.19%) Lead
7 23 (7.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 22 (6.88%) Backend Developer
9 21 (6.56%) Geospatial Architect
9 21 (6.56%) Software Architect
9 21 (6.56%) Software Tester
9 21 (6.56%) Tester
10 19 (5.94%) Analyst
11 16 (5.00%) Software Developer
11 16 (5.00%) Test Engineer
12 12 (3.75%) QA Engineer
13 11 (3.44%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.69%) .NET
2 26 (8.13%) REST
3 20 (6.25%) JSON
4 18 (5.63%) Web Services
5 16 (5.00%) .NET Framework
5 16 (5.00%) RESTful
6 10 (3.13%) Android SDK
6 10 (3.13%) Gherkin
6 10 (3.13%) Playwright
7 9 (2.81%) HTML
7 9 (2.81%) Kafka
7 9 (2.81%) MSMQ
7 9 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (2.81%) React Native
8 7 (2.19%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.19%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (2.19%) GraphQL
8 7 (2.19%) SOAP
8 7 (2.19%) WCF
9 6 (1.88%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (5.94%) Video\Live Streaming
3 18 (5.63%) Mobile App
4 17 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (2.19%) iSeries
8 7 (2.19%) NHS
9 5 (1.56%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.25%) Smart Energy
11 3 (0.94%) Cyberattack
11 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.63%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.63%) IoT
12 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.31%) EPoS
13 1 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.56%) Linux
2 18 (5.63%) Android
2 18 (5.63%) Windows
3 15 (4.69%) Embedded Linux
4 9 (2.81%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.88%) Unix
6 4 (1.25%) Debian
6 4 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (1.25%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.94%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.63%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (47.19%) Agile
2 98 (30.63%) Test Automation
3 84 (26.25%) Software Engineering
4 76 (23.75%) DevOps
5 57 (17.81%) Mentoring
6 48 (15.00%) Coaching
7 46 (14.38%) CI/CD
8 44 (13.75%) Computer Science
9 37 (11.56%) SDLC
10 34 (10.63%) Design Patterns
11 32 (10.00%) TDD
12 31 (9.69%) Code Quality
12 31 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (9.38%) Scrum
14 28 (8.75%) Roadmaps
15 27 (8.44%) Clean Code
16 23 (7.19%) Migration
16 23 (7.19%) Test Scripting
16 23 (7.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.19%) C#
2 52 (16.25%) SQL
3 49 (15.31%) JavaScript
4 35 (10.94%) C
4 35 (10.94%) Java
5 26 (8.13%) C++
6 20 (6.25%) Python
6 20 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.13%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.19%) RPG
8 7 (2.19%) RPG IV
9 6 (1.88%) Go
9 6 (1.88%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.25%) Embedded C
10 4 (1.25%) Groovy
10 4 (1.25%) R
11 2 (0.63%) PHP
11 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.63%) Ruby
11 2 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (19.06%) Degree
2 22 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.69%) ISTQB
4 12 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.88%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.88%) PhD
6 6 (1.88%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.25%) CIPD
9 2 (0.63%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.63%) CISSP
9 2 (0.63%) HND
9 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.31%) ISEB
10 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (20.63%) QA
2 25 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 23 (7.19%) WCAG
4 22 (6.88%) GDPR
5 7 (2.19%) PSD2
6 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.06%) Firmware
2 8 (2.50%) Docker
3 6 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.25%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.31%) NFS
6 1 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.31%) Ansible
2 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 44 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.19%) Google
3 11 (3.44%) BT
4 8 (2.50%) IBM
5 7 (2.19%) Duck Creek
6 6 (1.88%) VMware
7 5 (1.56%) Splunk
8 4 (1.25%) Adobe
9 3 (0.94%) SAP
9 3 (0.94%) YouTube
10 2 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.63%) Dell
10 2 (0.63%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle
10 2 (0.63%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.63%) SonicWALL
11 1 (0.31%) Atmel
11 1 (0.31%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.31%) Brocade
11 1 (0.31%) CA