Software Testing Jobs in Yorkshire

Software Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 89 121
Rank change year-on-year -32 +32 -37
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 111 281 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.79% 3.75% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 3.83% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 74 67 110
10th Percentile £26,275 £31,250 £27,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £33,413
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £67,813 £63,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £70,250 £76,500
England median annual salary £50,510 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.80% +1.82% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,023 7,329 6,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 81.03% 97.92% 93.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,800 3,370 4,418
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,855
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,736 £50,979
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +7.37% +7.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
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 Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Yorkshire +31 62 £56,482 +12.96% 8
South Yorkshire -32 20 £28,000 -46.67% 4
North Yorkshire -9 15 £55,000 +10.00% 4
East Yorkshire - 1 £30,000 -
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 8 (7.21%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.73%) Azure
2 22 (19.82%) AWS
3 8 (7.21%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (7.21%) GCP
3 8 (7.21%) Slack
4 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.70%) SaaS
5 3 (2.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.90%) Boomi
7 1 (0.90%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.90%) GitHub
7 1 (0.90%) Kong
7 1 (0.90%) Serverless
7 1 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.71%) 3G
1 13 (11.71%) 4G
1 13 (11.71%) MQTT
1 13 (11.71%) RS-485
1 13 (11.71%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (11.71%) Wireless
2 7 (6.31%) Internet
3 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.90%) Firewall
4 1 (0.90%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (7.21%) Data Lake
2 8 (7.21%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.31%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.90%) MySQL
6 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Power BI
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (16.22%) Selenium
2 17 (15.32%) JIRA
3 13 (11.71%) Git
4 10 (9.01%) Cucumber
5 9 (8.11%) Jenkins
5 9 (8.11%) JUnit
5 9 (8.11%) Postman
6 8 (7.21%) CircleCI
6 8 (7.21%) GitLab
7 6 (5.41%) LoadRunner
8 5 (4.50%) HP UFT
8 5 (4.50%) JMeter
8 5 (4.50%) MSTest
8 5 (4.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (3.60%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (2.70%) Zephyr
11 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.80%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.90%) LoadUI
12 1 (0.90%) PHPUnit
General
1 34 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.71%) Finance
3 12 (10.81%) Mandarin Language
3 12 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.21%) Banking
5 7 (6.31%) Marketing
5 7 (6.31%) Retail
6 6 (5.41%) Electronics
6 6 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Advertising
9 1 (0.90%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.90%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (20.72%) Software Engineer
2 19 (17.12%) Senior
3 14 (12.61%) Lead
4 13 (11.71%) Embedded Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Test Engineer
5 11 (9.91%) Analyst
6 9 (8.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 8 (7.21%) Developer
8 7 (6.31%) Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Geospatial Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Software Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Software Test Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Development Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Firmware Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Graduate
9 6 (5.41%) Software Development Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Test Development Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Support Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.41%) REST
2 11 (9.91%) .NET
3 10 (9.01%) RESTful
4 8 (7.21%) Gherkin
5 6 (5.41%) Web Services
6 5 (4.50%) HTML
7 4 (3.60%) XML
7 4 (3.60%) XSLT
8 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.70%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.70%) ADO
9 2 (1.80%) Node.js
9 2 (1.80%) Playwright
10 1 (0.90%) Behat
10 1 (0.90%) CSS
10 1 (0.90%) Laravel
10 1 (0.90%) QML
10 1 (0.90%) Qt
10 1 (0.90%) WPF
10 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.32%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.21%) Mobile App
3 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.31%) NHS
4 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.70%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.90%) EPoS
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.22%) Linux
2 13 (11.71%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (5.41%) Windows
4 5 (4.50%) Unix
5 3 (2.70%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.80%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.90%) Android
7 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.95%) Agile
2 53 (47.75%) Test Automation
3 34 (30.63%) Software Engineering
4 33 (29.73%) DevOps
5 26 (23.42%) Coaching
6 24 (21.62%) Mentoring
7 21 (18.92%) CI/CD
8 18 (16.22%) Regression Testing
8 18 (16.22%) Roadmaps
9 17 (15.32%) BDD
10 14 (12.61%) Computer Science
10 14 (12.61%) OO
10 14 (12.61%) Project Management
11 13 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (11.71%) OOD
11 13 (11.71%) Test Scripting
11 13 (11.71%) User Experience
12 12 (10.81%) Microservices
13 10 (9.01%) Containerisation
14 9 (8.11%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) SQL
2 24 (21.62%) JavaScript
3 20 (18.02%) C
4 17 (15.32%) C#
5 14 (12.61%) C++
6 10 (9.01%) Python
7 4 (3.60%) Groovy
7 4 (3.60%) Java
8 2 (1.80%) PHP
8 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.90%) JCL
9 1 (0.90%) REXX
Qualifications
1 22 (19.82%) Degree
2 8 (7.21%) ISTQB
2 8 (7.21%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.50%) DBS Check
4 5 (4.50%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (3.60%) CIPD
6 1 (0.90%) ISEB
6 1 (0.90%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.92%) GDPR
2 16 (14.41%) QA
3 10 (9.01%) Accessibility
4 9 (8.11%) WCAG
5 8 (7.21%) PSD2
6 2 (1.80%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.31%) Firmware
2 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.60%) VMware Server
3 2 (1.80%) Docker
4 1 (0.90%) NFS
4 1 (0.90%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.90%) Ansible
2 1 (0.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.81%) Google
3 8 (7.21%) Duck Creek
4 4 (3.60%) VMware
5 3 (2.70%) BT
5 3 (2.70%) SAP
5 3 (2.70%) Splunk
6 2 (1.80%) Adobe
6 2 (1.80%) Dell
7 1 (0.90%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.90%) Brocade
7 1 (0.90%) CA
7 1 (0.90%) IBM