Software QA Engineer Jobs in England

Software Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Quality Assurance Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 864 1122
Rank change year-on-year +20 +258 -246
Permanent jobs requiring a Software QA Engineer 6 39 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.007% 0.046% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.050% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 42
10th Percentile £36,450 £40,125 £41,375
25th Percentile £36,750 £44,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £58,750
90th Percentile £68,000 - £63,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +11.11%

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 85,024 77,807 134,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 91.35% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,911 50,222 74,971
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,029 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software QA Engineer in England

Software QA Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software QA Engineer in England

Software QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software QA Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software QA Engineer in England

Software 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 Software QA Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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 2 £53,750 +26.47%
South West -22 2 £60,000 +33.33% 2
East of England -10 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 £38,500 -
North East - 1 £38,500 -
Software QA Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2024, Software 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 Software QA Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) .NET
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Games
5 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (33.33%) JSON
5 2 (33.33%) JIRA
5 2 (33.33%) Confluence
5 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
5 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (33.33%) Hedge funds
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab
5 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (33.33%) Swagger
5 2 (33.33%) Fintech
5 2 (33.33%) Postman
5 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (16.67%) Vert.x
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review

Software 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (16.67%) Couchbase
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (33.33%) Fintech
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) SDET
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk