QA Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Quality Assurance Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Birmingham is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 137 176
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 9 9 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.33% 0.45% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.48% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 21
10th Percentile £37,250 £40,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £51,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +2.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £61,750 -
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £53,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -24.88% +1.43% +18.98%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,549 1,882 3,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 93.31% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,082 1,430 2,351
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,991 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,886 £70,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Birmingham

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Birmingham

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, QA 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 across the Birmingham region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 9 (100.00%) QA
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 9 (100.00%) BDD
1 9 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 9 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 9 (100.00%) User Experience
1 9 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 9 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Fintech
1 9 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
3 5 (55.56%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Postman

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
General
1 9 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (55.56%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 9 (100.00%) BDD
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Fintech
1 9 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
1 9 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 9 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 9 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 9 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA