Software Testing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 87 39
Rank change year-on-year -22 -48 +49
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 156 192 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.11% 3.45% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 3.64% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 105 101 151
10th Percentile £35,200 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,020 £50,000 £48,850
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +2.35% +2.84%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £66,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,117 5,275 7,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.61% 94.70% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,005 2,984 3,915
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the Thames Valley

Software Testing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Berkshire +6 119 £60,000 -7.69% 15
Buckinghamshire -20 20 £49,000 -2.00% 15
Oxfordshire -30 17 £40,000 +6.67% 5
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (4.49%) Apache
2 6 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.85%) WinCC
3 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Moodle
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.64%) Totara
Applications
1 10 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.23%) Azure
2 29 (18.59%) AWS
3 18 (11.54%) GitHub
4 7 (4.49%) IaaS
5 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.21%) SaaS
7 4 (2.56%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.28%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.64%) GCP
9 1 (0.64%) Serverless
9 1 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.49%) Ethernet
2 5 (3.21%) LAN
3 4 (2.56%) Firewall
4 3 (1.92%) Network Security
4 3 (1.92%) Profibus
5 2 (1.28%) DNS
5 2 (1.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.64%) GPRS
6 1 (0.64%) MQTT
6 1 (0.64%) RS-232
6 1 (0.64%) RS-485
6 1 (0.64%) RTP
6 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) OLTP
2 7 (4.49%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.92%) Power BI
3 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.28%) Big Data
4 2 (1.28%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.46%) GitLab
2 18 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 17 (10.90%) Visual Studio
4 14 (8.97%) Selenium
5 13 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 11 (7.05%) JIRA
7 10 (6.41%) JUnit
8 9 (5.77%) WebDriver
9 8 (5.13%) REST Assured
9 8 (5.13%) TestNG
10 7 (4.49%) Cypress.io
11 6 (3.85%) Bugzilla
11 6 (3.85%) Git
11 6 (3.85%) Zephyr
12 4 (2.56%) JMeter
13 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (1.92%) Postman
13 3 (1.92%) Serenity BDD
14 2 (1.28%) Bitbucket
14 2 (1.28%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (5.77%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (2.56%) Marketing
4 4 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.92%) Electronics
5 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.64%) Finance
6 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 35 (22.44%) Software Engineer
2 32 (20.51%) Senior
3 30 (19.23%) Developer
4 24 (15.38%) Architect
4 24 (15.38%) Software Architect
5 15 (9.62%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
6 13 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.33%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 12 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.05%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.77%) Analyst
9 9 (5.77%) Developer in Test
9 9 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Tester
10 8 (5.13%) Automation Tester
11 7 (4.49%) Geospatial Architect
11 7 (4.49%) Research Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Research Software Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.62%) SOAP
2 13 (8.33%) HTML
2 13 (8.33%) XML
3 11 (7.05%) Web Services
4 8 (5.13%) REST
4 8 (5.13%) WireMock
5 7 (4.49%) Apache Commons
5 7 (4.49%) Guava
5 7 (4.49%) Java Concurrency
5 7 (4.49%) Playwright
6 6 (3.85%) OpenMP
7 4 (2.56%) EDI
8 3 (1.92%) Middleware
9 2 (1.28%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.28%) Kafka
9 2 (1.28%) RESTful
9 2 (1.28%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.64%) Celery
10 1 (0.64%) Pandas
10 1 (0.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.03%) Algorithms
2 13 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.05%) Life Science
4 9 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.49%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.85%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.85%) CUDA
6 6 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.85%) SCADA
7 4 (2.56%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.92%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.64%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.64%) NHS
9 1 (0.64%) SCORM
9 1 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 48 (30.77%) Linux
2 27 (17.31%) Unix
3 12 (7.69%) Windows
4 5 (3.21%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.21%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.28%) CentOS
6 2 (1.28%) Debian
6 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.10%) Agile
2 52 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 49 (31.41%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (26.92%) Physics
5 38 (24.36%) Software Engineering
6 32 (20.51%) Open Source
7 30 (19.23%) SDET
8 29 (18.59%) Test Automation
9 28 (17.95%) CI/CD
10 25 (16.03%) DevOps
10 25 (16.03%) Mathematics
10 25 (16.03%) SDLC
11 23 (14.74%) Containerisation
12 21 (13.46%) Performance Analysis
13 19 (12.18%) Parallel Programming
14 17 (10.90%) Monte Carlo Method
15 16 (10.26%) Code Quality
16 15 (9.62%) Migration
17 12 (7.69%) API Testing
18 11 (7.05%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (42.95%) Python
2 43 (27.56%) C++
3 42 (26.92%) Fortran
3 42 (26.92%) SQL
4 32 (20.51%) Bash
5 31 (19.87%) C
6 23 (14.74%) C#
6 23 (14.74%) Java
7 21 (13.46%) JavaScript
8 15 (9.62%) PL/SQL
9 9 (5.77%) Groovy
10 7 (4.49%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.85%) Perl
11 6 (3.85%) Ruby
12 4 (2.56%) Embedded C
12 4 (2.56%) Embedded C++
12 4 (2.56%) PHP
13 3 (1.92%) Go
14 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 68 (43.59%) Degree
3 25 (16.03%) PhD
4 21 (13.46%) Master's Degree
5 16 (10.26%) SC Cleared
6 10 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.13%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.92%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.28%) ISEB
10 2 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.18%) QA
2 6 (3.85%) SLA
3 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.28%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.64%) JTAG
4 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (14.74%) Docker
2 13 (8.33%) Firmware
3 4 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.33%) Terraform
3 6 (3.85%) Ansible
4 5 (3.21%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (3.21%) SCCM
5 3 (1.92%) Wonderware InTouch
6 2 (1.28%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.64%) Grafana
7 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.26%) Oracle
3 10 (6.41%) HP
4 6 (3.85%) AVEVA
4 6 (3.85%) Rockwell
4 6 (3.85%) Siemens
5 3 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.92%) Wonderware
6 2 (1.28%) Acronis
6 2 (1.28%) Citrix
6 2 (1.28%) WatchGuard
7 1 (0.64%) Google
7 1 (0.64%) SAP
7 1 (0.64%) Talend