Senior QA Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 809 842 936
Rank change year-on-year +33 +94 -178
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 11 109 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.013% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10 65 145
10th Percentile £42,375 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £44,063 £55,000 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,750 £85,000 £90,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +18.18%

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 79,391 86,698 124,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.60% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,655 54,705 76,107
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,363
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £42,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,188 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Engineer in England

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior QA Engineer in England

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior QA Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior QA Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +109 5 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Midlands +15 2 £65,000 +10.64% 1
South East -5 2 £45,000 -40.00% 1
East Midlands -12 2 £65,000 +10.64%
East of England +14 1 £42,500 - 1
South West -16 1 - -
Senior QA Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
4 4 (36.36%) Python
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) API Testing
5 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 3 (27.27%) Selenium
6 2 (18.18%) Use Case
6 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) SaaS
6 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 2 (18.18%) C#
6 2 (18.18%) ETL
6 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Legal
6 2 (18.18%) Games
6 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Databricks
6 2 (18.18%) PySpark
6 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Appium
4 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) Gatling
4 1 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) XCUITest
4 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Games
1 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Jest
2 1 (9.09%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Hackathon
2 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) API Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Collection
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Test Management
5 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
5 2 (18.18%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks