QA Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Quality Assurance Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Leeds is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 158 195
Rank change year-on-year +28 +37 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 4 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.18% 0.54% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.57% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 8
10th Percentile £34,650 £29,000 -
25th Percentile £39,000 £30,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £30,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +55.74% -37.44% +2.63%
75th Percentile £50,625 £38,625 £53,750
90th Percentile £51,750 £52,500 £60,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £30,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +55.74% -32.22% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,177 2,808 3,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.95% 95.15% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,581 1,697 2,513
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,919 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +3.00%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Leeds

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Leeds

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Leeds

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 10 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 Leeds region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Postman
3 2 (50.00%) Fintech
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Appium
4 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Marketing
4 1 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (25.00%) SDET
4 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) API Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA