Test Development Engineer Jobs

Test Development Engineer
UK

The median Test Development Engineer salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 895 872 1065
Rank change year-on-year -23 +193 -239
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Development Engineer 12 75 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.079% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.087% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 55 63
10th Percentile - £42,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Test Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Test Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Development Engineer.

Salary trend for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Development Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Development Engineer in the UK

Test Development Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Development Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -24 12 £40,000 -41.82% 16
UK excluding London -61 12 £40,000 -33.33% 17
Work from Home +30 11 £40,000 -50.00% 6
Yorkshire +67 6 £65,000 +15.56%
North of England +35 6 £65,000 +23.81%
South East -10 6 £40,000 -33.33% 2
London +82 2 £72,500 -3.33% 2

Test Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Test Development 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 featuring Test Development Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 12 (100.00%) SDET
2 11 (91.67%) Software Engineering
3 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 8 (66.67%) Python
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (50.00%) Open Source
5 6 (50.00%) Bash
5 6 (50.00%) OpenStack
5 6 (50.00%) GitHub
5 6 (50.00%) IaaS
5 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (50.00%) Coaching
5 6 (50.00%) Linux
5 6 (50.00%) Workflow
5 6 (50.00%) AWS
5 6 (50.00%) Life Science
5 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (50.00%) Ruby
6 5 (41.67%) Agile
6 5 (41.67%) C#
6 5 (41.67%) SQL
6 5 (41.67%) Product Ownership
7 4 (33.33%) Gherkin
7 4 (33.33%) DevOps
7 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing

Test Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub
2 6 (50.00%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) LoadUI
General
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Playwright
4 1 (8.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Life Science
2 5 (41.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) SDET
1 12 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 11 (91.67%) Software Engineering
3 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (50.00%) Coaching
5 6 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (50.00%) Open Source
5 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (50.00%) Workflow
6 5 (41.67%) Agile
7 4 (33.33%) DevOps
7 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
8 3 (25.00%) API Testing
8 3 (25.00%) Data Science
8 3 (25.00%) Data-Driven Testing
9 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
2 6 (50.00%) Ruby
3 5 (41.67%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft