Software Testing Jobs in the South East

Software Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 94 48
Rank change year-on-year -45 -46 +53
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 323 469 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.91% 3.28% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 3.46% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 242 293 530
10th Percentile £34,500 £34,324 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £51,259 £55,000 £54,857
% change year-on-year -6.80% +0.26% +4.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,228 13,538 18,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.33% 94.57% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,873 7,885 11,857
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £83,450
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the South East.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Thames Valley -41 133 £51,020 +2.04% 41
Berkshire -3 101 £58,000 -10.77% 24
Hampshire -49 80 £45,000 -18.18% 25
Surrey -14 49 £46,500 -28.46% 16
Kent +23 30 £55,000 - 3
Buckinghamshire -28 16 £49,000 +1.55% 15
Oxfordshire -29 16 £40,000 +10.34% 3
West Sussex +13 11 £56,000 -6.67% 6
Middlesex -9 8 £42,750 -44.84%
Sussex - 6 £56,000 -
Isle of Wight - 5 £25,000 -
East Sussex +5 1 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (3.41%) Apache
2 6 (1.86%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.24%) TWiki
3 4 (1.24%) WinCC
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.62%) Confluence
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) Moodle
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.31%) Totara
Applications
1 29 (8.98%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.81%) Simulink
2 22 (6.81%) Stateflow
3 12 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (2.17%) CANalyzer
5 4 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.62%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 7 (2.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.10%) Azure
2 30 (9.29%) AWS
3 29 (8.98%) SaaS
4 25 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (6.50%) GitHub
6 14 (4.33%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (2.17%) IaaS
8 6 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.93%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.62%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.62%) Figma
10 2 (0.62%) GCP
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.31%) Serverless
11 1 (0.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.64%) Firewall
2 11 (3.41%) J1939
3 9 (2.79%) LAN
3 9 (2.79%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.48%) Network Security
5 5 (1.55%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.55%) RS-232
5 5 (1.55%) RS-485
6 4 (1.24%) 4G
6 4 (1.24%) Wireless
6 4 (1.24%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) DNS
7 1 (0.31%) GPRS
7 1 (0.31%) MQTT
7 1 (0.31%) Profibus
7 1 (0.31%) SNMP
7 1 (0.31%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.72%) OLTP
3 5 (1.55%) Big Data
4 4 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.93%) Power BI
5 3 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.31%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (16.72%) JIRA
2 45 (13.93%) Selenium
3 38 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 21 (6.50%) GitLab
5 20 (6.19%) Visual Studio
6 18 (5.57%) ClearCase
6 18 (5.57%) Plastic SCM
7 16 (4.95%) Cucumber
8 14 (4.33%) ClearQuest
8 14 (4.33%) Cypress.io
9 13 (4.02%) eggPlant
9 13 (4.02%) Robot Framework
10 12 (3.72%) JUnit
11 9 (2.79%) JMeter
11 9 (2.79%) Postman
11 9 (2.79%) TestNG
12 8 (2.48%) Git
12 8 (2.48%) REST Assured
12 8 (2.48%) WebDriver
13 6 (1.86%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 46 (14.24%) Organisational Skills
3 39 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.12%) Aerospace
4 23 (7.12%) Electronics
5 18 (5.57%) Automotive
6 14 (4.33%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.48%) Finance
8 7 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.86%) Marketing
10 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.55%) Retail
10 5 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.24%) Aviation
12 2 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.62%) Police
12 2 (0.62%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (15.79%) Software Engineer
2 43 (13.31%) Senior
3 40 (12.38%) Test Engineer
4 37 (11.46%) Analyst
5 31 (9.60%) Developer
6 30 (9.29%) Tester
7 26 (8.05%) Consultant
8 25 (7.74%) Test Analyst
9 22 (6.81%) Lead
10 21 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (5.88%) Architect
11 19 (5.88%) Software Architect
12 16 (4.95%) Software Test Engineer
13 15 (4.64%) Support Engineer
14 14 (4.33%) Automation Tester
14 14 (4.33%) QA Analyst
14 14 (4.33%) Software Tester
15 13 (4.02%) ERP Consultant
15 13 (4.02%) ERP Implementation Consultant
15 13 (4.02%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.60%) XML
2 29 (8.98%) HTML
3 19 (5.88%) .NET
4 18 (5.57%) SOAP
5 15 (4.64%) Web Services
6 10 (3.10%) REST
7 9 (2.79%) WireMock
8 8 (2.48%) Playwright
9 7 (2.17%) Apache Commons
9 7 (2.17%) Guava
9 7 (2.17%) Java Concurrency
10 6 (1.86%) JSON
10 6 (1.86%) OpenMP
10 6 (1.86%) React
10 6 (1.86%) WPF
11 5 (1.55%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.55%) Node.js
12 4 (1.24%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.24%) WebSockets
12 4 (1.24%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.60%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.50%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.02%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.41%) Life Science
8 9 (2.79%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (2.17%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.86%) CUDA
11 6 (1.86%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.86%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.55%) EPoS
13 4 (1.24%) Device Driver
13 4 (1.24%) FPGA
13 4 (1.24%) Robotics
13 4 (1.24%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.58%) Linux
2 45 (13.93%) Windows
3 14 (4.33%) Unix
4 9 (2.79%) Windows 10
4 9 (2.79%) Windows 7
5 8 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.48%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.62%) CentOS
6 2 (0.62%) Debian
6 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (39.32%) Agile
2 105 (32.51%) Test Automation
3 99 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (21.67%) Software Engineering
5 62 (19.20%) Computer Science
5 62 (19.20%) DevOps
6 52 (16.10%) CI/CD
7 37 (11.46%) Containerisation
7 37 (11.46%) Physics
8 34 (10.53%) SDET
9 32 (9.91%) Configuration Management
10 31 (9.60%) Customer Service
10 31 (9.60%) Test Strategy
11 30 (9.29%) Mathematics
12 29 (8.98%) Collaborative Working
13 25 (7.74%) Test Scripting
14 24 (7.43%) Time Management
14 24 (7.43%) Validation
15 23 (7.12%) Service Delivery
16 22 (6.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (30.03%) Python
2 64 (19.81%) SQL
3 59 (18.27%) C
4 57 (17.65%) C#
5 41 (12.69%) C++
6 38 (11.76%) Bash
6 38 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 32 (9.91%) Embedded C
8 27 (8.36%) Fortran
8 27 (8.36%) Java
9 23 (7.12%) MATLAB
10 18 (5.57%) Perl
11 14 (4.33%) PL/SQL
12 12 (3.72%) Groovy
13 8 (2.48%) TypeScript
14 7 (2.17%) Ruby
15 6 (1.86%) Go
16 5 (1.55%) Embedded C++
17 4 (1.24%) PHP
18 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 119 (36.84%) Degree
2 75 (23.22%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.15%) ISTQB
4 31 (9.60%) SC Cleared
5 29 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.95%) Master's Degree
8 14 (4.33%) ISEB
9 13 (4.02%) PhD
10 11 (3.41%) HND
11 7 (2.17%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.62%) CBAP
13 2 (0.62%) IIBA
14 1 (0.31%) CCNA
14 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (22.29%) QA
2 19 (5.88%) MISRA
3 12 (3.72%) ISO 26262
4 11 (3.41%) Automotive SPICE
4 11 (3.41%) AUTOSAR
5 7 (2.17%) SLA
6 5 (1.55%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) JTAG
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (9.29%) Docker
2 24 (7.43%) Firmware
3 12 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.33%) Terraform
3 9 (2.79%) SCCM
4 5 (1.55%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (1.24%) Ansible
6 3 (0.93%) Wonderware InTouch
7 2 (0.62%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.62%) Grafana
7 2 (0.62%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) Kibana
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.74%) Oracle
3 18 (5.57%) IBM
3 18 (5.57%) Lauterbach
4 14 (4.33%) HP
5 13 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.79%) SAP
7 8 (2.48%) Sage
8 7 (2.17%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.86%) Epicor
10 4 (1.24%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.24%) Facebook
10 4 (1.24%) Instagram
10 4 (1.24%) Rockwell
10 4 (1.24%) Siemens
11 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.93%) Databricks
11 3 (0.93%) Google
11 3 (0.93%) Wonderware
12 2 (0.62%) WatchGuard