QA Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the Midlands is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 304 314
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 17 24 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.27% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 38
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +13.68% +9.83%
75th Percentile £43,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,164 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.98% +14.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 10,740 8,795 10,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.51% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,179 4,839 7,217
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the Midlands

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the Midlands

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the Midlands

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands +35 11 £40,000 -25.93% 5
East Midlands -12 6 £48,750 -9.30% 1
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Midlands region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
3 13 (76.47%) Software Testing
4 12 (70.59%) Product Ownership
5 11 (64.71%) Test Strategy
6 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
6 10 (58.82%) AWS
6 10 (58.82%) Java
6 10 (58.82%) Finance
6 10 (58.82%) Agile
7 9 (52.94%) Scrum
7 9 (52.94%) Cucumber
7 9 (52.94%) BDD
7 9 (52.94%) Spring
7 9 (52.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (52.94%) Agile Testing
7 9 (52.94%) Functional Testing
7 9 (52.94%) Non-Functional Testing
7 9 (52.94%) User Experience
7 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (52.94%) Software Delivery
7 9 (52.94%) Spring Boot
7 9 (52.94%) Fintech
8 8 (47.06%) TDD
9 5 (29.41%) Banking
10 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
11 2 (11.76%) Postman
11 2 (11.76%) Product Requirements
11 2 (11.76%) Biomedicine
11 2 (11.76%) C#

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) Postman
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (29.41%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Spring
1 9 (52.94%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 13 (76.47%) Software Testing
3 11 (64.71%) Test Strategy
4 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
5 9 (52.94%) Agile Testing
5 9 (52.94%) BDD
5 9 (52.94%) Fintech
5 9 (52.94%) Functional Testing
5 9 (52.94%) Non-Functional Testing
5 9 (52.94%) Scrum
5 9 (52.94%) Software Delivery
5 9 (52.94%) User Experience
6 8 (47.06%) TDD
7 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
8 2 (11.76%) Biomedicine
8 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
8 2 (11.76%) Product Requirements
8 2 (11.76%) QMS
8 2 (11.76%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA