QA Engineer Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in England is £48,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 643 574 476
Rank change year-on-year -69 -98 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 193 383 997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.42% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.46% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 152 302 651
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £54,082 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -5.94% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £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 80,478 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,133 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +14 62 £40,000 -20.00% 12
London -25 55 £60,000 +4.35% 15
South West -21 33 £55,000 +37.50% 11
Midlands -4 17 £40,000 -25.93% 8
North of England +27 16 £47,500 +11.76% 14
West Midlands +10 12 £40,000 -24.88% 7
North West +13 10 £47,500 +5.56% 7
East of England 0 7 £40,000 -13.51% 6
East Midlands -14 5 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Yorkshire +65 3 £48,750 +57.26% 5
North East -3 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 7 May 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.

1 193 (100.00%) QA
2 95 (49.22%) Test Automation
3 71 (36.79%) Agile
4 45 (23.32%) Manufacturing
4 45 (23.32%) Cucumber
5 39 (20.21%) API Testing
6 36 (18.65%) Java
6 36 (18.65%) Selenium
7 35 (18.13%) Manual Testing
7 35 (18.13%) QA Automation
8 34 (17.62%) BDD
8 34 (17.62%) Software Testing
8 34 (17.62%) Postman
8 34 (17.62%) CI/CD
9 33 (17.10%) SQL
10 30 (15.54%) Scrum
10 30 (15.54%) Cypress.io
11 28 (14.51%) JIRA
12 27 (13.99%) Test Strategy
13 26 (13.47%) Degree
14 25 (12.95%) Social Skills
15 24 (12.44%) Azure
16 23 (11.92%) Test Scripting
17 22 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
17 22 (11.40%) Fintech
17 22 (11.40%) Collaborative Working
18 21 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (10.88%) Python
18 21 (10.88%) Product Requirements
18 21 (10.88%) Product Ownership

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 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.04%) Simulink
1 2 (1.04%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.44%) Azure
2 20 (10.36%) AWS
3 15 (7.77%) SaaS
4 12 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.11%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.04%) ClickUp
6 2 (1.04%) GCP
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) 5G
1 3 (1.55%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.55%) GSM
1 3 (1.55%) ISDN
1 3 (1.55%) LTE
1 3 (1.55%) PSTN
1 3 (1.55%) UMTS
1 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (23.32%) Cucumber
2 36 (18.65%) Selenium
3 34 (17.62%) Postman
4 30 (15.54%) Cypress.io
5 28 (14.51%) JIRA
6 18 (9.33%) Jenkins
7 11 (5.70%) SpecFlow
7 11 (5.70%) TeamCity
8 8 (4.15%) Appium
8 8 (4.15%) Git
9 6 (3.11%) JUnit
10 5 (2.59%) Android Studio
10 5 (2.59%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.59%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.07%) GitLab
11 4 (2.07%) JMeter
12 3 (1.55%) LabVIEW
12 3 (1.55%) Mockito
13 2 (1.04%) JBehave
13 2 (1.04%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 45 (23.32%) Manufacturing
2 25 (12.95%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.36%) Finance
5 19 (9.84%) Electronics
6 12 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.66%) Banking
8 8 (4.15%) Automotive
9 5 (2.59%) Games
9 5 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.07%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.07%) Aviation
11 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.04%) Agriculture
12 2 (1.04%) Legal
12 2 (1.04%) Marketing
12 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Retail
13 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.29%) Playwright
2 15 (7.77%) Gherkin
2 15 (7.77%) REST
3 14 (7.25%) Spring
4 12 (6.22%) .NET
4 12 (6.22%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.66%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.59%) Swagger
7 3 (1.55%) React
7 3 (1.55%) Web Services
7 3 (1.55%) WireMock
8 2 (1.04%) JSON
8 2 (1.04%) PySpark
9 1 (0.52%) Chai
9 1 (0.52%) Jest
9 1 (0.52%) Nightwatchjs
9 1 (0.52%) Node.js
9 1 (0.52%) OpenCV
9 1 (0.52%) pytest
9 1 (0.52%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.88%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.66%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.11%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.55%) Acoustics
4 3 (1.55%) Satnav
5 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.04%) Hackathon
5 2 (1.04%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.04%) IoT
5 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.04%) Robotics
5 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.52%) Derivative
6 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.52%) Replication
6 1 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.29%) Android
2 10 (5.18%) Linux
3 8 (4.15%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.59%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.59%) Windows
5 3 (1.55%) Debian
6 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.04%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (49.22%) Test Automation
2 71 (36.79%) Agile
3 39 (20.21%) API Testing
4 35 (18.13%) Manual Testing
4 35 (18.13%) QA Automation
5 34 (17.62%) BDD
5 34 (17.62%) CI/CD
5 34 (17.62%) Software Testing
6 30 (15.54%) Scrum
7 27 (13.99%) Test Strategy
8 23 (11.92%) Test Scripting
9 22 (11.40%) Collaborative Working
9 22 (11.40%) Fintech
10 21 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (10.88%) Product Requirements
11 20 (10.36%) DevOps
11 20 (10.36%) Internal Audit
12 19 (9.84%) FMEA
13 14 (7.25%) TDD
14 13 (6.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.65%) Java
2 33 (17.10%) SQL
3 21 (10.88%) Python
4 18 (9.33%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.25%) C#
6 7 (3.63%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.04%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.52%) C++
8 1 (0.52%) PHP
8 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (13.47%) Degree
2 7 (3.63%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (1.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.55%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) ISEB
4 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.55%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.55%) Terraform
2 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft
1 4 (2.07%) Oracle
2 2 (1.04%) Databricks
3 1 (0.52%) Hitachi
3 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.52%) Splunk