QA Engineer Jobs in Cambridge

Quality Assurance Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Cambridge is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 75 115
Rank change year-on-year -2 +40 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 20 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.30% 1.95% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 2.27% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile - £47,500 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £49,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +61.54%
75th Percentile £41,250 £61,875 £56,250
90th Percentile £42,750 £64,500 £63,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +53.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 959 881 1,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.97% 85.70% 93.12%
Number of salaries quoted 739 415 592
10th Percentile £30,925 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £90,000 £85,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Cambridge

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Cambridge region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Automotive
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) UI Automator
2 2 (66.67%) Appium
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
3 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting

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

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Appium
1 2 (66.67%) UI Automator
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Mac OS
1 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA