QA Engineer Jobs in the North West

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > North West

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the North West is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 290 307
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -98
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 10 11 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% 0.14% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 18
10th Percentile £41,750 £31,250 £29,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £68,438 £50,313 £58,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £55,250 £62,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 9,209 7,066 9,058
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.06% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,068 4,119 5,473
10th Percentile £27,175 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,575 £81,250 £82,500
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the North West

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the North West

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the North West

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +25 8 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Cheshire - 1 £62,500 - 3
Cumbria - 1 £35,000 -
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 North West region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 8 (80.00%) Cypress.io
3 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (60.00%) Agile
4 6 (60.00%) Selenium
4 6 (60.00%) Playwright
5 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (50.00%) People Management
5 5 (50.00%) Postman
5 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 5 (50.00%) Android
5 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
5 5 (50.00%) Azure
5 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (50.00%) Android Studio
5 5 (50.00%) DevOps
6 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (40.00%) QA Automation
7 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
7 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (30.00%) Migration
7 3 (30.00%) Line Management
7 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (30.00%) Coaching
7 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
7 3 (30.00%) SaaS
8 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
8 1 (10.00%) BDD
8 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (10.00%) NoSQL

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Cypress.io
2 6 (60.00%) Selenium
3 5 (50.00%) Android Studio
3 5 (50.00%) Postman
3 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (10.00%) TestCafe
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) People Management
2 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (40.00%) QA Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Coaching
4 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (30.00%) Line Management
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker