Software Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 709 664 742
Rank change year-on-year -45 +78 -132
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 66 90 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.089% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 45 36 52
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +1.19%
75th Percentile £50,000 £60,938 £50,000
90th Percentile £63,000 £76,875 £53,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Software Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Test Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East -26 16 £45,000 -2.70% 4
East of England -2 15 £50,000 -23.08%
South West -25 14 £40,000 -20.00% 5
North of England +57 10 £35,000 -26.32% 3
Scotland -61 8 £48,750 +8.33%
Yorkshire - 7 £35,000 - 1
North West +8 3 £45,000 -5.26% 2
West Midlands +10 2 £47,500 +6.15% 1
Midlands -7 2 £47,500 - 1
Wales +3 1 £27,500 -25.68%
Software Test Engineer
UK

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Software Test Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 26 (39.39%) Test Automation
3 25 (37.88%) Software Engineering
3 25 (37.88%) Regression Testing
4 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
4 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
5 21 (31.82%) Degree
6 20 (30.30%) Python
7 18 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (24.24%) Windows
9 15 (22.73%) Linux
9 15 (22.73%) C#
10 14 (21.21%) ISTQB
10 14 (21.21%) Agile
10 14 (21.21%) QA
11 12 (18.18%) DevOps
12 11 (16.67%) Time Management
12 11 (16.67%) SQL
12 11 (16.67%) C
13 10 (15.15%) Electronics
13 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
14 9 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (13.64%) Manual Testing
15 8 (12.12%) Git
15 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
15 8 (12.12%) Cypress.io
15 8 (12.12%) JIRA
15 8 (12.12%) Embedded C
15 8 (12.12%) Visual Studio

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (7.58%) Azure
2 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.55%) AWS
3 3 (4.55%) GitHub
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.52%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.52%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) Internet
2 3 (4.55%) Ethernet
3 2 (3.03%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Cypress.io
1 8 (12.12%) Git
1 8 (12.12%) JIRA
1 8 (12.12%) Visual Studio
2 7 (10.61%) Postman
3 6 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 6 (9.09%) MSTest
4 5 (7.58%) Selenium
5 4 (6.06%) Appium
5 4 (6.06%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.06%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (4.55%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (4.55%) Rational Team Concert
6 3 (4.55%) UI Automator
7 1 (1.52%) GitLab
7 1 (1.52%) LabVIEW
General
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Electronics
4 7 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.09%) Finance
6 4 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.52%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) .NET
1 6 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 4 (6.06%) HTML
2 4 (6.06%) Web Services
2 4 (6.06%) XML
2 4 (6.06%) XSLT
3 3 (4.55%) Playwright
3 3 (4.55%) Qt
4 2 (3.03%) MSMQ
5 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.52%) Laravel
5 1 (1.52%) pytest
5 1 (1.52%) RESTful
5 1 (1.52%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (1.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) IoT
2 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.06%) NHS
3 3 (4.55%) PCIe
4 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.24%) Windows
2 15 (22.73%) Linux
3 4 (6.06%) Android
4 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 26 (39.39%) Test Automation
3 25 (37.88%) Regression Testing
3 25 (37.88%) Software Engineering
4 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (21.21%) Agile
6 12 (18.18%) DevOps
7 11 (16.67%) Time Management
8 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
9 9 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (13.64%) Manual Testing
10 7 (10.61%) Mathematics
10 7 (10.61%) Scenario Testing
10 7 (10.61%) Test Management
10 7 (10.61%) Test Scripting
11 6 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
11 6 (9.09%) Energy Management
11 6 (9.09%) Open Source
11 6 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 15 (22.73%) C#
3 11 (16.67%) C
3 11 (16.67%) SQL
4 8 (12.12%) Embedded C
5 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.06%) Groovy
7 3 (4.55%) Java
7 3 (4.55%) MATLAB
8 2 (3.03%) C++
8 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.52%) PHP
9 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (31.82%) Degree
2 14 (21.21%) ISTQB
3 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) CIPD
4 4 (6.06%) DBS Check
5 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) HND
7 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.21%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Def Stans
2 3 (4.55%) MISRA
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (6.06%) VMware Server
2 3 (4.55%) Firmware
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Google
2 4 (6.06%) VMware
3 3 (4.55%) IBM