QA Engineer Jobs in Guildford

Quality Assurance Engineer
Surrey > Guildford

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Guildford is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 74 74
Rank change year-on-year +30 0 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 4 1 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 1.13% 0.24% 4.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.24% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 37
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £51,875 - £60,000
90th Percentile £59,750 - -
Surrey median annual salary £45,000 £72,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -37.93% +38.10% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Guildford

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Guildford. 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 Guildford with a recognized job title 327 414 909
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 97.87% 99.02%
Number of salaries quoted 303 253 485
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £83,250
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +8.11% +5.71%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Guildford

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Guildford

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Guildford

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Guildford over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Guildford

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Guildford region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (75.00%) Swagger
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform