Tester Jobs in Hampshire

Tester
South East > Hampshire

The median Tester salary in Hampshire is £43,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 154 217
Rank change year-on-year -19 +63 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 31 10 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.67% 0.37% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.40% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 29
10th Percentile - £36,250 £29,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,813 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,625 £50,313 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £58,750
South East median annual salary £45,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 4,360 2,530 5,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 94.05% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,364 1,936 3,520
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £29,548
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,500 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Hampshire

Tester
Salary Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tester in Hampshire.

Salary trend for Tester in Hampshire

Tester
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tester in Hampshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Tester in Hampshire

Tester
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Basingstoke - 24 - - 1
Andover - 3 £65,000 -
Farnborough +6 2 £37,500 -16.67%
Portsmouth - 1 £50,000 - 1
Southampton - 1 - -
Tester
South East

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Tester 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 Hampshire region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 28 (90.32%) Test Automation
2 26 (83.87%) Test Scripting
3 25 (80.65%) Security Cleared
3 25 (80.65%) Agile
3 25 (80.65%) Selenium
4 24 (77.42%) Requirements Analysis
4 24 (77.42%) QA
4 24 (77.42%) DV Cleared
4 24 (77.42%) Mentoring
4 24 (77.42%) Coaching
4 24 (77.42%) Technical Analysis
4 24 (77.42%) Test Assurance
5 23 (74.19%) Collaborative Working
5 23 (74.19%) Aerospace
6 20 (64.52%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (12.90%) SQL
7 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
8 3 (9.68%) Java
8 3 (9.68%) JIRA
8 3 (9.68%) Performance Testing
8 3 (9.68%) Web Services
8 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
8 3 (9.68%) GitHub
8 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
8 3 (9.68%) RESTful
8 3 (9.68%) Azure
8 3 (9.68%) SaaS
9 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
9 2 (6.45%) Manual Testing

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
1 3 (9.68%) GitHub
1 3 (9.68%) SaaS
2 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 25 (80.65%) Selenium
2 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.68%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.45%) JMeter
3 2 (6.45%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.23%) JUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Maven
4 1 (3.23%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 23 (74.19%) Aerospace
2 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) RESTful
1 3 (9.68%) Web Services
2 1 (3.23%) ADO
2 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Test Automation
2 26 (83.87%) Test Scripting
3 25 (80.65%) Agile
4 24 (77.42%) Coaching
4 24 (77.42%) Mentoring
4 24 (77.42%) Requirements Analysis
4 24 (77.42%) Technical Analysis
4 24 (77.42%) Test Assurance
5 23 (74.19%) Collaborative Working
6 20 (64.52%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
8 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
8 3 (9.68%) Performance Testing
9 2 (6.45%) Application Performance Monitoring
9 2 (6.45%) Defect Management
9 2 (6.45%) DevOps
9 2 (6.45%) Manual Testing
9 2 (6.45%) Performance Measurement
9 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (6.45%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) Java
3 2 (6.45%) C
3 2 (6.45%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) VB
4 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (80.65%) Security Cleared
2 24 (77.42%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (77.42%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle