QA Engineer Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in England is £50,000 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 618 571 478
Rank change year-on-year -47 -93 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 198 398 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.43% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.47% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 154 314 655
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,582 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% -4.24% +14.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
South East +10 63 £45,000 -10.00% 12
London -15 58 £60,000 - 16
South West -9 34 £55,000 +37.50% 8
North of England +19 17 £47,500 +5.56% 15
Midlands -8 17 £40,000 -24.88% 8
West Midlands +19 12 £40,000 -24.88% 6
North West +16 11 £47,500 +5.56% 9
East of England -5 7 £40,000 -15.79% 5
East Midlands -12 5 £52,500 -2.33% 2
Yorkshire +76 3 £48,750 +57.26% 4
North East -4 3 £40,000 -42.86% 2
QA Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 198 (100.00%) QA
2 99 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 73 (36.87%) Agile
4 46 (23.23%) Cucumber
5 45 (22.73%) Manufacturing
6 44 (22.22%) API Testing
7 38 (19.19%) Java
8 37 (18.69%) Software Testing
8 37 (18.69%) Selenium
8 37 (18.69%) Manual Testing
8 37 (18.69%) BDD
9 36 (18.18%) QA Automation
9 36 (18.18%) Postman
10 35 (17.68%) CI/CD
11 34 (17.17%) Cypress.io
12 33 (16.67%) SQL
13 31 (15.66%) JIRA
13 31 (15.66%) Scrum
14 29 (14.65%) Test Strategy
14 29 (14.65%) Social Skills
15 25 (12.63%) Degree
16 24 (12.12%) Test Scripting
16 24 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
17 23 (11.62%) Azure
17 23 (11.62%) JavaScript
17 23 (11.62%) Python
17 23 (11.62%) Product Ownership
18 22 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
18 22 (11.11%) Fintech

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.01%) Simulink
1 2 (1.01%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.62%) Azure
2 20 (10.10%) AWS
3 15 (7.58%) SaaS
4 12 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.03%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.01%) ClickUp
6 2 (1.01%) CloudBees
6 2 (1.01%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) 5G
1 3 (1.52%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.52%) GSM
1 3 (1.52%) ISDN
1 3 (1.52%) LTE
1 3 (1.52%) PSTN
1 3 (1.52%) UMTS
1 3 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.52%) Wireless
2 1 (0.51%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
1 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.01%) OLTP
3 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.51%) MySQL
3 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (23.23%) Cucumber
2 37 (18.69%) Selenium
3 36 (18.18%) Postman
4 34 (17.17%) Cypress.io
5 31 (15.66%) JIRA
6 20 (10.10%) Jenkins
7 12 (6.06%) SpecFlow
8 11 (5.56%) Git
8 11 (5.56%) TeamCity
9 8 (4.04%) Appium
10 7 (3.54%) JUnit
10 7 (3.54%) REST Assured
11 6 (3.03%) JMeter
12 5 (2.53%) Android Studio
12 5 (2.53%) Visual Studio
13 4 (2.02%) GitLab
14 3 (1.52%) LabVIEW
14 3 (1.52%) Mockito
14 3 (1.52%) SoapUI
15 2 (1.01%) IntelliJ
General
1 45 (22.73%) Manufacturing
2 29 (14.65%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.10%) Finance
5 19 (9.60%) Electronics
6 12 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.55%) Banking
8 8 (4.04%) Automotive
9 5 (2.53%) Aviation
9 5 (2.53%) Games
9 5 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.02%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.52%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.01%) Agriculture
12 2 (1.01%) Legal
12 2 (1.01%) Marketing
12 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Retail
13 1 (0.51%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.09%) Playwright
1 18 (9.09%) REST
2 16 (8.08%) Gherkin
3 14 (7.07%) Spring
4 13 (6.57%) .NET
5 12 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.55%) .NET Framework
7 5 (2.53%) Swagger
8 4 (2.02%) Web Services
8 4 (2.02%) WireMock
9 3 (1.52%) React
10 2 (1.01%) JSON
10 2 (1.01%) PySpark
11 1 (0.51%) HTML
11 1 (0.51%) Jest
11 1 (0.51%) Middleware
11 1 (0.51%) Nightwatchjs
11 1 (0.51%) Puppeteer
11 1 (0.51%) WebdriverIO
11 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.62%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.52%) Acoustics
4 3 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.52%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.52%) Satnav
5 2 (1.01%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.01%) IoT
5 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.01%) Robotics
5 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.51%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.51%) Life Science
6 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.58%) Android
2 12 (6.06%) Linux
3 8 (4.04%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.53%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.53%) Windows
5 3 (1.52%) Debian
6 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.01%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 73 (36.87%) Agile
3 44 (22.22%) API Testing
4 37 (18.69%) BDD
4 37 (18.69%) Manual Testing
4 37 (18.69%) Software Testing
5 36 (18.18%) QA Automation
6 35 (17.68%) CI/CD
7 31 (15.66%) Scrum
8 29 (14.65%) Test Strategy
9 24 (12.12%) Test Scripting
10 22 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (11.11%) Fintech
10 22 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (10.61%) Product Requirements
12 20 (10.10%) Internal Audit
13 19 (9.60%) DevOps
13 19 (9.60%) FMEA
14 16 (8.08%) TDD
15 13 (6.57%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.19%) Java
2 33 (16.67%) SQL
3 23 (11.62%) JavaScript
3 23 (11.62%) Python
4 17 (8.59%) C#
5 7 (3.54%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.01%) COBOL
6 2 (1.01%) HLASM
6 2 (1.01%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.01%) REXX
6 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) C
7 1 (0.51%) C++
7 1 (0.51%) Go
7 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (12.63%) Degree
2 9 (4.55%) ISTQB
3 4 (2.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.02%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.51%) ISEB
5 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.01%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.51%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.03%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Consul
3 1 (0.51%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.51%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle
3 2 (1.01%) Databricks
4 1 (0.51%) Google
4 1 (0.51%) Hitachi
4 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.51%) Splunk