Test Assurance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 718 765
Rank change year-on-year +31 +47 -105
Permanent jobs citing Test Assurance 88 36 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.062% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.065% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 29
10th Percentile £31,800 £36,725 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% +16.71%
75th Percentile £58,160 £42,500 £51,750
90th Percentile £59,348 £53,000 £59,900
UK median annual salary £56,975 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +42.44% -11.11% +14.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Assurance 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance 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 +40 47 £55,000 +35.80%
South West -2 36 - -
Scotland -56 2 £43,487 -
East of England - 2 - -
West Midlands +7 1 £36,000 -20.00%
Midlands -9 1 £36,000 -20.00%
Test Assurance
UK

Test Assurance
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 4 (4.55%) TWiki
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.14%) SAP GTS
1 1 (1.14%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.14%) SAP SD
1 1 (1.14%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.82%) Azure
1 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (40.91%) 5G
1 36 (40.91%) SD-WAN
1 36 (40.91%) WAN
2 1 (1.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (29.55%) Selenium
2 12 (13.64%) TestRail
3 9 (10.23%) eggPlant
4 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.14%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) JMeter
4 1 (1.14%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.14%) Postman
4 1 (1.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 36 (40.91%) Aerospace
3 21 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (21.59%) Electronics
6 11 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Finance
8 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Banking
9 1 (1.14%) French Language
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Automation Tester
1 25 (28.41%) Tester
2 17 (19.32%) RF Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) GNSS Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Analyst
5 12 (13.64%) Lead
5 12 (13.64%) Test Analyst
6 11 (12.50%) Project Leader
6 11 (12.50%) Technical Leader
6 11 (12.50%) Technical Project Leader
7 9 (10.23%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 8 (9.09%) Developer
8 8 (9.09%) FPGA Developer
8 8 (9.09%) Software Project Leader
9 6 (6.82%) Test Engineer
10 1 (1.14%) Customer Analyst
10 1 (1.14%) Graduate
10 1 (1.14%) Integration Analyst
10 1 (1.14%) Integration Test Analyst
10 1 (1.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.14%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) GNSS
2 12 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (12.50%) FPGA
4 8 (9.09%) MicroBlaze
4 8 (9.09%) Robotics
4 8 (9.09%) VHDL
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Windows
2 9 (10.23%) Windows Server
2 9 (10.23%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (9.09%) Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (95.45%) Test Automation
2 53 (60.23%) Requirements Analysis
3 49 (55.68%) Mentoring
4 46 (52.27%) Agile
5 37 (42.05%) B2B
5 37 (42.05%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (39.77%) Collaborative Working
7 33 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
8 29 (32.95%) Test Scripting
9 28 (31.82%) Project Delivery
10 26 (29.55%) Coaching
11 25 (28.41%) Requirements Gathering
11 25 (28.41%) Technical Analysis
12 19 (21.59%) Computer Science
12 19 (21.59%) Creative Thinking
12 19 (21.59%) Defect Tracking
13 16 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
13 16 (18.18%) Test Planning
14 15 (17.05%) Project Management
15 13 (14.77%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.18%) C++
2 12 (13.64%) MATLAB
3 8 (9.09%) C
3 8 (9.09%) Perl
3 8 (9.09%) Tcl
3 8 (9.09%) VB
4 1 (1.14%) Python
4 1 (1.14%) SQL
4 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (51.14%) Security Cleared
2 39 (44.32%) DV Cleared
3 33 (37.50%) Degree
4 14 (15.91%) ISTQB
5 13 (14.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (54.55%) QA
2 11 (12.50%) PMO
3 3 (3.41%) JTAG
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.14%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) Altera
2 8 (9.09%) Green Hills
2 8 (9.09%) Motorola
2 8 (9.09%) Xilinx
3 2 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.14%) BT
4 1 (1.14%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.14%) HP