QA Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Quality Assurance Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Bristol is £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 155 161
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 9 15 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.29% 0.56% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.60% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 21
10th Percentile £31,250 - £31,750
25th Percentile £41,563 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £32,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +65.38% -38.10% +23.53%
75th Percentile £60,313 £48,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 -
South West median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,004 2,482 3,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 92.85% 97.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,239 1,562 2,229
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,720 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +9.20% +14.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Bristol

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Bristol

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Bristol

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 26 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 Bristol region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Selenium
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 3 (33.33%) QA Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Automotive
5 2 (22.22%) Quality Management
5 2 (22.22%) C#
5 2 (22.22%) Java
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 2 (22.22%) Python
5 2 (22.22%) QMS
5 2 (22.22%) Spring
5 2 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) API Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
5 2 (22.22%) BDD

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 3 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) QMS
4 2 (22.22%) Quality Management
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft