QA Tester Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in England is £42,500 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 787 843 977
Rank change year-on-year +56 +134 -214
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 35 98 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 26 91 108
10th Percentile £36,250 £22,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,563 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £51,563 £64,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%

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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
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 Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London +125 11 £45,000 -28.00% 6
Midlands -12 10 £40,000 -8.05% 1
North of England +39 8 £40,000 -20.00% 3
North West +5 6 £37,500 -25.00% 3
West Midlands +7 5 £40,000 -23.81% 1
East Midlands -16 5 - -
South East +14 3 £43,750 -12.50% 1
South West -27 2 £40,000 -11.11% 1
North East - 2 £55,000 -
QA Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) QA
2 20 (57.14%) Agile
3 19 (54.29%) Test Automation
4 12 (34.29%) Cucumber
4 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
5 11 (31.43%) Software Testing
5 11 (31.43%) Selenium
6 10 (28.57%) Scrum
7 8 (22.86%) Project Management
7 8 (22.86%) JIRA
7 8 (22.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
7 8 (22.86%) BDD
7 8 (22.86%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (22.86%) DevOps
7 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
8 7 (20.00%) AWS
8 7 (20.00%) B2B
8 7 (20.00%) Java
8 7 (20.00%) Web Development
9 6 (17.14%) Test Management
9 6 (17.14%) Spring
9 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
9 6 (17.14%) C#
9 6 (17.14%) Finance
9 6 (17.14%) Test Strategy
9 6 (17.14%) Functional Testing
9 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot

QA Tester 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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) SaaS
3 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Cucumber
2 11 (31.43%) Selenium
3 8 (22.86%) JIRA
4 4 (11.43%) Cypress.io
5 3 (8.57%) Appium
5 3 (8.57%) JMeter
5 3 (8.57%) SpecFlow
6 2 (5.71%) Git
6 2 (5.71%) GitLab
6 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.71%) Postman
6 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.71%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (14.29%) Retail
5 3 (8.57%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Front Office
7 1 (2.86%) Games
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) Spring
1 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
2 4 (11.43%) Playwright
2 4 (11.43%) RESTful
3 3 (8.57%) React
3 3 (8.57%) SOAP
4 2 (5.71%) .NET
4 2 (5.71%) CSS
4 2 (5.71%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.71%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.86%) Jest
5 1 (2.86%) jQuery
5 1 (2.86%) PySpark
5 1 (2.86%) REST
5 1 (2.86%) Swagger
5 1 (2.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) Media Streaming
3 1 (2.86%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.86%) STB
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Debian
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Agile
2 19 (54.29%) Test Automation
3 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (31.43%) Software Testing
5 10 (28.57%) Scrum
6 8 (22.86%) BDD
6 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
6 8 (22.86%) DevOps
6 8 (22.86%) Non-Functional Testing
6 8 (22.86%) Project Management
6 8 (22.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (20.00%) B2B
7 7 (20.00%) Web Development
8 6 (17.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 6 (17.14%) Functional Testing
8 6 (17.14%) Test Management
8 6 (17.14%) Test Strategy
9 5 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
9 5 (14.29%) Fintech
9 5 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Java
2 6 (17.14%) C#
2 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Ruby
5 2 (5.71%) Python
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle