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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 291 318
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 17 23 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.14% 0.25% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.28% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 42
10th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £32,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +13.68% +10.79%
75th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £54,164 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.30% -5.80% +15.00%

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 11,193 8,307 10,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.68% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,338 4,661 7,022
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
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 £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 9 May 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 9 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
West Midlands +5 12 £40,000 -24.88% 4
East Midlands -15 5 £52,500 -4.55% 1
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Midlands region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
3 12 (70.59%) Software Testing
3 12 (70.59%) Product Ownership
4 11 (64.71%) Agile
4 11 (64.71%) Test Strategy
5 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
5 10 (58.82%) BDD
5 10 (58.82%) AWS
5 10 (58.82%) Finance
5 10 (58.82%) Java
5 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
6 9 (52.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (52.94%) User Experience
6 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (52.94%) Software Delivery
6 9 (52.94%) Spring Boot
6 9 (52.94%) Fintech
6 9 (52.94%) Scrum
6 9 (52.94%) Spring
6 9 (52.94%) Agile Testing
6 9 (52.94%) Functional Testing
6 9 (52.94%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (47.06%) TDD
8 5 (29.41%) Banking
9 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
10 2 (11.76%) QMS
10 2 (11.76%) Selenium
10 2 (11.76%) SaaS
10 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io

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
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.76%) Postman
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
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
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 12 (70.59%) Software Testing
3 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Test Strategy
4 10 (58.82%) BDD
4 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
5 9 (52.94%) Agile Testing
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 3 (17.65%) 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#
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA