Software Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 130 28 113
Rank change year-on-year -102 +85 -41
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 125 510 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.68% 8.15% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 8.42% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 101 69 162
10th Percentile £31,250 £22,750 £29,075
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £61,250 £95,000 £84,250
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,151 6,054 7,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.46% 96.77% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,565 3,148 4,749
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,602 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the West Midlands

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the West Midlands

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the West Midlands

Software Testing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham -28 51 £48,750 +47.73% 8
Warwickshire -20 31 £32,500 -35.00% 10
Staffordshire -11 19 £47,500 +35.71% 8
Solihull +5 6 £50,000 -2.44%
Worcestershire -17 5 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Coventry -21 3 £40,000 +3.90% 7
Shropshire -7 2 £61,250 +28.95% 4
Wolverhampton -20 1 £55,000 - 3
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (8.00%) IIS
2 4 (3.20%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) WinCC
4 1 (0.80%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.80%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.60%) AWS
1 27 (21.60%) Azure
2 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.60%) GitHub
5 2 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.80%) PaaS
6 1 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) WAN
2 4 (3.20%) FlexRay
3 2 (1.60%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.60%) Modbus
3 2 (1.60%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.80%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.40%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.20%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Postman
2 10 (8.00%) JIRA
3 8 (6.40%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.60%) LabVIEW
5 5 (4.00%) MSTest
5 5 (4.00%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.40%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.60%) Git
7 2 (1.60%) GitLab
8 1 (0.80%) CANoe
8 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.80%) NUnit
8 1 (0.80%) Selenium
8 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (21.60%) Finance
4 17 (13.60%) Automotive
5 13 (10.40%) Retail
6 12 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (7.20%) Banking
7 9 (7.20%) Legal
8 7 (5.60%) Electronics
8 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.80%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.20%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.60%) Games
11 2 (1.60%) Marketing
11 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Law
12 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (16.00%) Senior
2 19 (15.20%) Developer
3 18 (14.40%) Analyst
4 17 (13.60%) Systems Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Business Analyst
5 11 (8.80%) Tester
6 10 (8.00%) QA Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 10 (8.00%) Test Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Agile Tester
8 5 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) QA Tester
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Firmware Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (3.20%) IT Development Manager
9 4 (3.20%) Service Desk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.80%) .NET
2 8 (6.40%) REST
2 8 (6.40%) Spring
2 8 (6.40%) Spring Boot
3 7 (5.60%) HTML
4 5 (4.00%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.00%) JSON
4 5 (4.00%) SOAP
4 5 (4.00%) WinForms
4 5 (4.00%) XML
5 4 (3.20%) Web Services
6 3 (2.40%) CSS
6 3 (2.40%) React
7 2 (1.60%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.60%) CSS3
7 2 (1.60%) KnockoutJS
7 2 (1.60%) Playwright
8 1 (0.80%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.80%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.80%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.80%) Product Ownership
2 16 (12.80%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (11.20%) Mobile App
4 10 (8.00%) Clustering
4 10 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (8.00%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.40%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (4.80%) Algorithms
7 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.20%) Device Driver
9 2 (1.60%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.60%) SCADA
10 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.80%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.80%) Genomics
10 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.40%) Windows
2 4 (3.20%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (2.40%) Linux
4 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (46.40%) Test Automation
2 51 (40.80%) Agile
3 39 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (26.40%) Test Strategy
5 32 (25.60%) Functional Testing
6 30 (24.00%) SDLC
7 27 (21.60%) Mentoring
8 25 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 24 (19.20%) Test Scripting
10 23 (18.40%) DevOps
11 22 (17.60%) Resource Allocation
12 20 (16.00%) TDD
13 19 (15.20%) Regression Testing
13 19 (15.20%) Security Testing
14 18 (14.40%) Computer Science
15 17 (13.60%) Scrum
16 16 (12.80%) Test Management
17 15 (12.00%) Coaching
17 15 (12.00%) Non-Functional Testing
17 15 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.40%) SQL
2 19 (15.20%) Java
3 18 (14.40%) C#
4 12 (9.60%) C
5 11 (8.80%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.60%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.60%) VB.NET
7 6 (4.80%) Python
8 3 (2.40%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.60%) Ladder Logic
9 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.80%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.80%) PHP
10 1 (0.80%) R
10 1 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (28.80%) Degree
2 15 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.80%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) IIBA
4 4 (3.20%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.40%) CSPO
6 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.80%) CBAP
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (32.80%) QA
2 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.20%) WCAG
3 2 (1.60%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.80%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (0.80%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.80%) IFRS
4 1 (0.80%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.80%) MISRA
4 1 (0.80%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (8.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (3.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (3.20%) Firmware
3 3 (2.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.80%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.80%) Grafana
2 1 (0.80%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (28.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.20%) VMware
3 6 (4.80%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.20%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.20%) Citrix
4 4 (3.20%) InterSystems
4 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.60%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.60%) SAP
6 2 (1.60%) Siemens
7 1 (0.80%) Google
7 1 (0.80%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.80%) Splunk
7 1 (0.80%) YouTube