Test Engineer
UK

The median Test Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 481 480
Rank change year-on-year -39 -1 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 412 609 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.61% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.67% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 244 409 773
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,188 £42,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,164 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in the UK

Test Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London -11 366 £45,000 -10.00% 178
England -41 333 £45,000 -18.18% 186
Work from Home -105 112 £46,274 -15.87% 59
South East -5 107 £45,000 - 58
South West -20 58 £51,250 -0.49% 24
Midlands -24 58 £42,500 -22.73% 26
East of England +50 55 £45,000 -30.77% 30
West Midlands -5 47 £42,500 -22.73% 20
North of England +16 35 £42,500 -15.00% 27
Scotland -61 32 £45,000 -6.25% 16
London -54 21 £65,000 +13.04% 20
Yorkshire +45 19 £38,750 -8.94% 7
Wales +20 16 £42,500 +10.39% 5
North West +2 14 £45,000 -10.00% 20
East Midlands -5 11 £37,500 -21.05% 6
Northern Ireland +25 4 - - 1
North East -11 2 £57,965 +0.81%
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 208 (50.49%) Test Automation
2 151 (36.65%) Software Testing
3 134 (32.52%) Agile
4 106 (25.73%) Degree
5 78 (18.93%) Python
5 78 (18.93%) Social Skills
6 76 (18.45%) QA
7 69 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (15.53%) Test Scripting
9 61 (14.81%) Regression Testing
10 55 (13.35%) JIRA
11 54 (13.11%) Electronics
11 54 (13.11%) DevOps
12 53 (12.86%) Security Cleared
13 52 (12.62%) Selenium
14 51 (12.38%) Microsoft
15 49 (11.89%) Manual Testing
16 48 (11.65%) CI/CD
17 47 (11.41%) C#
17 47 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
18 46 (11.17%) Test Strategy
18 46 (11.17%) Computer Science
18 46 (11.17%) ISTQB
18 46 (11.17%) Software Engineering
19 45 (10.92%) Azure
20 44 (10.68%) SQL
20 44 (10.68%) Windows
21 42 (10.19%) API Testing
22 40 (9.71%) Git
23 39 (9.47%) Continuous Integration

Test 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 28 (6.80%) Confluence
2 2 (0.49%) MTS
3 1 (0.24%) Apache
3 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.21%) Simulink
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 45 (10.92%) Azure
2 32 (7.77%) AWS
3 22 (5.34%) GitHub
4 16 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.18%) GCP
5 9 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.46%) SaaS
6 6 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 5 (1.21%) Datadog
7 5 (1.21%) PaaS
8 4 (0.97%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (0.97%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (0.97%) dbt
8 4 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (0.97%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.49%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.49%) Serverless
10 1 (0.24%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.85%) Wireless
2 18 (4.37%) Bluetooth
2 18 (4.37%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.67%) 5G
4 10 (2.43%) GSM
4 10 (2.43%) ISDN
4 10 (2.43%) LTE
4 10 (2.43%) PSTN
4 10 (2.43%) UMTS
5 7 (1.70%) Ethernet
6 6 (1.46%) Internet
7 5 (1.21%) Network Security
7 5 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.97%) FlexRay
8 4 (0.97%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.97%) ZigBee
9 2 (0.49%) DHCP
9 2 (0.49%) DNS
10 1 (0.24%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.07%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.18%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.21%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.21%) Redis
5 4 (0.97%) InfluxDB
5 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.97%) Tableau
6 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.24%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (13.35%) JIRA
2 52 (12.62%) Selenium
3 40 (9.71%) Git
4 30 (7.28%) Postman
5 29 (7.04%) LabVIEW
6 20 (4.85%) Cypress.io
7 18 (4.37%) Appium
7 18 (4.37%) Jenkins
7 18 (4.37%) JMeter
8 17 (4.13%) Cucumber
8 17 (4.13%) MSTest
9 15 (3.64%) Bitbucket
10 13 (3.16%) SpecFlow
10 13 (3.16%) Visual Studio
11 11 (2.67%) SoapUI
11 11 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (2.67%) UI Automator
12 10 (2.43%) GitLab
12 10 (2.43%) JBehave
13 9 (2.18%) WebDriver
General
1 78 (18.93%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.11%) Electronics
3 47 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.22%) Automotive
5 32 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (7.04%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.10%) Finance
8 19 (4.61%) Aerospace
9 18 (4.37%) Retail
10 16 (3.88%) Military
10 16 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.43%) Marketing
11 10 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.43%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.18%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.97%) Legal
14 4 (0.97%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.73%) Games
16 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.13%) .NET
2 13 (3.16%) Gherkin
2 13 (3.16%) XML
3 12 (2.91%) Playwright
4 11 (2.67%) pytest
5 9 (2.18%) HTML
5 9 (2.18%) SOAP
6 7 (1.70%) Node.js
6 7 (1.70%) REST
7 6 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (1.46%) WebdriverIO
8 5 (1.21%) CSS
8 5 (1.21%) JSON
8 5 (1.21%) Web Services
9 4 (0.97%) DOM
9 4 (0.97%) Middleware
9 4 (0.97%) OAuth
9 4 (0.97%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.97%) XSLT
10 3 (0.73%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.80%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (3.64%) IoT
3 12 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (2.43%) Acoustics
5 10 (2.43%) Satnav
6 9 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.94%) Smartphone
8 7 (1.70%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.46%) Chip and PIN
9 6 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.21%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.97%) NHS
11 4 (0.97%) Robotics
12 3 (0.73%) PCIe
13 2 (0.49%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.68%) Windows
2 38 (9.22%) Linux
3 19 (4.61%) Unix
4 9 (2.18%) Android
5 8 (1.94%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.49%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (50.49%) Test Automation
2 151 (36.65%) Software Testing
3 134 (32.52%) Agile
4 69 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (15.53%) Test Scripting
6 61 (14.81%) Regression Testing
7 54 (13.11%) DevOps
8 49 (11.89%) Manual Testing
9 48 (11.65%) CI/CD
10 46 (11.17%) Computer Science
10 46 (11.17%) Software Engineering
10 46 (11.17%) Test Strategy
11 42 (10.19%) API Testing
12 39 (9.47%) Continuous Integration
13 34 (8.25%) Test Management
14 32 (7.77%) Non-Functional Testing
15 29 (7.04%) Functional Testing
16 28 (6.80%) Coaching
16 28 (6.80%) Validation
17 27 (6.55%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.93%) Python
2 47 (11.41%) C#
3 44 (10.68%) SQL
4 34 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 30 (7.28%) Java
6 22 (5.34%) C
7 15 (3.64%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.67%) C++
9 9 (2.18%) Embedded C
9 9 (2.18%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.46%) Groovy
11 5 (1.21%) Bash
11 5 (1.21%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.97%) Ruby
13 2 (0.49%) PHP
13 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 106 (25.73%) Degree
2 53 (12.86%) Security Cleared
3 46 (11.17%) ISTQB
4 30 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.16%) HND
8 12 (2.91%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (2.43%) HNC
11 9 (2.18%) ISEB
12 5 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.97%) CIPD
13 4 (0.97%) GIAC
13 4 (0.97%) ISEB Practitioner
13 4 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.73%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.73%) NVQ Level 3
15 2 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (18.45%) QA
2 15 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.67%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.73%) COSHH
4 3 (0.73%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.73%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.73%) JTAG
4 3 (0.73%) MISRA
5 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) HAZOP
System Software
1 13 (3.16%) Firmware
2 9 (2.18%) Docker
3 6 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.97%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.43%) Grafana
2 5 (1.21%) Kibana
3 4 (0.97%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.73%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.49%) Terraform
6 1 (0.24%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Iperf
6 1 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 51 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.40%) Google
3 7 (1.70%) EMC
4 6 (1.46%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.46%) Thales
4 6 (1.46%) VMware
5 5 (1.21%) Oracle
5 5 (1.21%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.21%) Splunk
6 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.73%) Conga
6 3 (0.73%) IBM
6 3 (0.73%) Lauterbach
6 3 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.49%) YouTube
8 1 (0.24%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.24%) Denodo
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.24%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.24%) Talend