Test Assurance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 926 1103
Rank change year-on-year +136 +177 -212
Permanent jobs citing Test Assurance 94 49 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.049% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.052% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 9 19 35
10th Percentile £34,800 £36,900 £26,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £37,694
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £78,750 £44,836 £51,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £68,750 £58,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +16.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Test Assurance 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Assurance 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
England +140 90 £70,000 +75.00% 2
UK excluding London +44 87 £36,000 -10.00% 1
South East +48 45 - -
Work from Home +103 42 £77,500 +89.86% 1
South West +3 37 - - 1
London +110 5 £77,500 +12.73% 1
Scotland -64 2 £43,487 -
East of England - 2 - -
West Midlands +11 1 £36,000 -10.00%
Midlands -10 1 £36,000 -10.00%

Test Assurance
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 (4.26%) TWiki
2 2 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.06%) SAP GTS
1 1 (1.06%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.06%) SAP SD
1 1 (1.06%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.45%) Azure
2 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (4.26%) AWS
4 1 (1.06%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (40.43%) 5G
1 38 (40.43%) SD-WAN
1 38 (40.43%) WAN
2 1 (1.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (27.66%) Selenium
2 12 (12.77%) TestRail
3 8 (8.51%) eggPlant
4 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.13%) JIRA
4 2 (2.13%) LabVIEW
4 2 (2.13%) Postman
5 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.06%) GitLab
5 1 (1.06%) JUnit
5 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (39.36%) Aerospace
3 24 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (22.34%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (20.21%) Electronics
6 12 (12.77%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.32%) Finance
8 3 (3.19%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) French Language
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Law
9 1 (1.06%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Automation Tester
1 25 (26.60%) Tester
2 18 (19.15%) RF Engineer
3 16 (17.02%) GNSS Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Analyst
5 13 (13.83%) Lead
5 13 (13.83%) Test Analyst
6 11 (11.70%) Project Leader
6 11 (11.70%) Technical Leader
6 11 (11.70%) Technical Project Leader
7 9 (9.57%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 8 (8.51%) Developer
8 8 (8.51%) FPGA Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Software Project Leader
9 5 (5.32%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Senior
10 3 (3.19%) Test Manager
11 2 (2.13%) Graduate
11 2 (2.13%) Product Engineer
11 2 (2.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.06%) EDI
1 1 (1.06%) Gherkin
1 1 (1.06%) Kafka
1 1 (1.06%) React
1 1 (1.06%) REST
1 1 (1.06%) Spring
1 1 (1.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) GNSS
2 13 (13.83%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (11.70%) FPGA
4 8 (8.51%) MicroBlaze
4 8 (8.51%) Robotics
4 8 (8.51%) VHDL
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.06%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.21%) Windows
2 10 (10.64%) Linux
3 8 (8.51%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.51%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (94.68%) Test Automation
2 54 (57.45%) Requirements Analysis
3 51 (54.26%) Mentoring
4 50 (53.19%) Agile
5 41 (43.62%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (41.49%) B2B
7 34 (36.17%) Collaborative Working
8 33 (35.11%) Actionable Insight
9 29 (30.85%) Test Scripting
10 28 (29.79%) Project Delivery
11 26 (27.66%) Coaching
12 25 (26.60%) Requirements Gathering
12 25 (26.60%) Technical Analysis
13 20 (21.28%) Computer Science
13 20 (21.28%) Creative Thinking
13 20 (21.28%) Defect Tracking
14 16 (17.02%) Customer Engagement
14 16 (17.02%) Project Management
14 16 (17.02%) Test Planning
15 14 (14.89%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.09%) C++
2 13 (13.83%) MATLAB
3 9 (9.57%) Perl
4 8 (8.51%) C
4 8 (8.51%) Tcl
4 8 (8.51%) VB
5 3 (3.19%) Python
6 2 (2.13%) Java
6 2 (2.13%) SQL
7 1 (1.06%) Bash
Qualifications
1 48 (51.06%) Security Cleared
2 38 (40.43%) DV Cleared
3 35 (37.23%) Degree
4 16 (17.02%) ISTQB
5 12 (12.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 12 (12.77%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.13%) HND
8 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (55.32%) QA
2 12 (12.77%) PMO
3 3 (3.19%) JTAG
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (8.51%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (8.51%) Firmware
2 1 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.51%) Altera
2 8 (8.51%) Green Hills
2 8 (8.51%) Motorola
2 8 (8.51%) Xilinx
3 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (1.06%) BT
4 1 (1.06%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.06%) HP
4 1 (1.06%) Splunk