Quality Engineer Jobs in the South East

Quality Engineer
England > South East

The median Quality Engineer salary in the South East is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 383 480
Rank change year-on-year +64 +97 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 75 32 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.21% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.23% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 39 5 6
10th Percentile £37,800 £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £48,750 £66,250 £81,875
90th Percentile £50,000 £73,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £69,044 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.07% +6.22% +12.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,621 13,714 18,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.60% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,594 12,572
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Quality Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the South East

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in the South East

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in the South East

Quality Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Hampshire +30 45 £39,000 -22.00% 6
Thames Valley +37 27 £44,500 -22.61% 24
Oxfordshire - 24 £44,500 - 8
Buckinghamshire -13 3 - - 3
Kent -15 2 £50,000 - 5
Surrey +8 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Quality Engineer
England

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Quality 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 South East region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (74.67%) Manufacturing
2 54 (72.00%) QA
3 42 (56.00%) Electronics
3 42 (56.00%) Internal Audit
4 41 (54.67%) FMEA
4 41 (54.67%) Product Requirements
5 37 (49.33%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (12.00%) ISO 9001
7 7 (9.33%) ISO 14001
8 5 (6.67%) QMS
8 5 (6.67%) Aerospace
9 4 (5.33%) Six Sigma
9 4 (5.33%) Degree
9 4 (5.33%) Test Automation
9 4 (5.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (4.00%) Critical Thinking
10 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (4.00%) Satnav
10 3 (4.00%) Test Scripting
10 3 (4.00%) Acoustics
10 3 (4.00%) 5G
10 3 (4.00%) LTE
10 3 (4.00%) Coaching
10 3 (4.00%) Agile
10 3 (4.00%) Data Management
10 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 3 (4.00%) LabVIEW
10 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (4.00%) Wireless

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.33%) Azure
1 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) 5G
1 3 (4.00%) Bluetooth
1 3 (4.00%) GSM
1 3 (4.00%) ISDN
1 3 (4.00%) LTE
1 3 (4.00%) PSTN
1 3 (4.00%) UMTS
1 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (4.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.33%) JMeter
2 1 (1.33%) Newman
2 1 (1.33%) Postman
2 1 (1.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.33%) Selenium
General
1 56 (74.67%) Manufacturing
2 42 (56.00%) Electronics
3 5 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.67%) Games
6 1 (1.33%) Automotive
6 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (4.00%) Satnav
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.00%) Internal Audit
2 41 (54.67%) FMEA
2 41 (54.67%) Product Requirements
3 37 (49.33%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (6.67%) QMS
5 4 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (5.33%) Six Sigma
5 4 (5.33%) Test Automation
6 3 (4.00%) Agile
6 3 (4.00%) Coaching
6 3 (4.00%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (4.00%) Data Management
6 3 (4.00%) Test Scripting
7 1 (1.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (1.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 1 (1.33%) OO
7 1 (1.33%) OOP
7 1 (1.33%) SDET
7 1 (1.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.00%) Python
2 1 (1.33%) C#
2 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) Degree
1 4 (5.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (72.00%) QA
2 9 (12.00%) ISO 9001
3 7 (9.33%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.33%) COSHH
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft