QA Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Quality Assurance Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the City of London is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 191 157
Rank change year-on-year +33 -34 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 21 49 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 1.03% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.07% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 21 48 123
10th Percentile - £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -12.96% +22.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £91,250
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -14.81% +22.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,218 4,574 6,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.44% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 3,850 5,640
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 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 City of London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (76.19%) API Testing
3 9 (42.86%) Cucumber
3 9 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 9 (42.86%) Cypress.io
4 8 (38.10%) Gherkin
4 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (38.10%) Postman
5 7 (33.33%) Playwright
5 7 (33.33%) Accessibility
5 7 (33.33%) REST
5 7 (33.33%) SpecFlow
5 7 (33.33%) TeamCity
5 7 (33.33%) SDET
5 7 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (33.33%) SQL
5 7 (33.33%) .NET
5 7 (33.33%) C#
6 4 (19.05%) Fintech
6 4 (19.05%) JIRA
6 4 (19.05%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (14.29%) QA Automation
7 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Build Automation
7 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (14.29%) Linux

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) BrowserStack
1 2 (9.52%) ClickUp
1 2 (9.52%) GCP
1 2 (9.52%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 9 (42.86%) Cypress.io
2 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) Postman
3 7 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 7 (33.33%) TeamCity
4 4 (19.05%) JIRA
5 1 (4.76%) Appium
5 1 (4.76%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (4.76%) JUnit
5 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Gherkin
2 7 (33.33%) .NET
2 7 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 7 (33.33%) Playwright
2 7 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Android
2 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.52%) Debian
2 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) API Testing
2 9 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 7 (33.33%) SDET
4 4 (19.05%) Exploratory Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Fintech
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Build Automation
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) QA Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Test Management
6 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.52%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Project Management
6 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (9.52%) Sprint Review
6 2 (9.52%) Test Strategy
7 1 (4.76%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) C#
1 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk
16 QA Engineer jobs in London