Senior Test Engineer
UK

The median Senior Test Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 839 1046
Rank change year-on-year +35 +207 -268
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 80 136 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 55 73 154
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% -5.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £60,741 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £57,599 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.87% +15.20% -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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £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%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 -42 70 £45,000 -21.87% 31
England +31 59 £50,000 -9.09% 35
Work from Home +44 27 £57,965 -3.39% 13
South East +4 21 £45,000 -42.86% 11
West Midlands +17 10 £42,500 - 2
East of England +6 10 £45,000 - 9
Midlands -4 10 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North of England +22 9 £57,965 -7.26% 6
Wales +14 7 £40,404 -15.83% 1
Scotland -71 7 £45,000 -25.00% 1
South West -35 6 £52,500 +10.53% 2
London +90 4 £67,500 +22.73% 5
North West 0 4 £50,232 -50.99% 4
Yorkshire +70 3 £57,965 -18.65% 2
North East -4 2 £57,965 +3.97%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 26 (32.50%) Agile
3 18 (22.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 16 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 16 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 13 (16.25%) Regression Testing
5 13 (16.25%) SQL
5 13 (16.25%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (15.00%) AWS
7 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
7 11 (13.75%) QA
7 11 (13.75%) Electronics
7 11 (13.75%) DevOps
8 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
8 9 (11.25%) Coaching
8 9 (11.25%) Azure
8 9 (11.25%) Postman
8 9 (11.25%) Accessibility
8 9 (11.25%) Scrum
8 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
9 8 (10.00%) Git
9 8 (10.00%) Selenium
9 8 (10.00%) JIRA
9 8 (10.00%) C#
9 8 (10.00%) Python
9 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
9 8 (10.00%) Social Skills
9 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (10.00%) Functional Testing
9 8 (10.00%) Test Strategy

Senior 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 4 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.00%) AWS
2 9 (11.25%) Azure
3 3 (3.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.50%) GCP
4 2 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Firebase
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Bluetooth
1 4 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (5.00%) ZigBee
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
1 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.50%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Postman
2 8 (10.00%) Git
2 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 8 (10.00%) Selenium
3 7 (8.75%) LabVIEW
3 7 (8.75%) SoapUI
4 6 (7.50%) MSTest
5 4 (5.00%) JMeter
6 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.25%) Appium
8 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.25%) GitLab
8 1 (1.25%) mountebank
8 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.25%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.25%) Subversion
8 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 11 (13.75%) Electronics
3 8 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Automotive
5 4 (5.00%) Military
6 3 (3.75%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.75%) Games
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Finance
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Welsh Language
8 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Aviation
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) SOAP
1 7 (8.75%) XML
2 6 (7.50%) REST
3 5 (6.25%) JSON
4 3 (3.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (3.75%) pytest
5 2 (2.50%) OAuth
5 2 (2.50%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.50%) Playwright
6 1 (1.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.25%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.25%) Laravel
6 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.25%) Swagger
6 1 (1.25%) Web Services
6 1 (1.25%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.25%) WireMock
6 1 (1.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (5.00%) IoT
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.25%) Animation
3 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 2 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Android
3 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 26 (32.50%) Agile
3 18 (22.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 16 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 13 (16.25%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (16.25%) Regression Testing
6 11 (13.75%) DevOps
6 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
7 9 (11.25%) Coaching
7 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
7 9 (11.25%) Scrum
8 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (10.00%) Functional Testing
8 8 (10.00%) Test Strategy
9 7 (8.75%) API Testing
9 7 (8.75%) Security Testing
9 7 (8.75%) Test Scripting
10 6 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (7.50%) Context-Driven Testing
10 6 (7.50%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) SQL
2 8 (10.00%) C#
2 8 (10.00%) Python
3 5 (6.25%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.00%) C
4 4 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.25%) Go
6 1 (1.25%) Groovy
6 1 (1.25%) PHP
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.75%) Degree
2 7 (8.75%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.50%) GIAC
4 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) QA
2 9 (11.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Grafana
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Google
2 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.25%) EMC