QA Tester Jobs in London

Quality Assurance Tester
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 595 784
Rank change year-on-year +103 +189 -219
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 10 28 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.042% 0.079% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.083% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 65
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £83,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,245 33,556 64,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,727 24,642 34,900
10th Percentile £38,095 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Tester in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +51 3 £42,500 -61.36% 1
QA Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 London region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Playwright
4 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) Selenium
4 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) JIRA
4 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Front Office
5 2 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) CSS
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) Python
5 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) RESTful
5 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Appium
3 1 (10.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Playwright
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) jQuery
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
3 1 (10.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Media Streaming
2 1 (10.00%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Debian
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) API Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Time Management
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
5 1 (10.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (10.00%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle