Quality Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 636 740
Rank change year-on-year +47 +104 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 171 115 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 103 32 67
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,325 £36,527
25th Percentile £36,500 £42,500 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +25.71%
75th Percentile £46,000 £72,500 £62,750
90th Percentile £56,000 £87,419 £70,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £66,911 £60,000
% change year-on-year -40.22% +11.52% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Quality Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +56 73 £40,000 -23.81% 31
Midlands +6 26 £45,000 - 19
South West -2 26 £37,500 -25.00% 30
Wales - 25 £45,000 - 13
West Midlands +13 24 £42,500 - 15
North of England +27 10 £40,000 -30.43% 41
Scotland -76 8 £41,250 -6.25% 9
North West +11 6 £45,000 - 25
East of England +11 3 £40,000 - 14
North East - 3 £40,000 - 7
East Midlands -12 2 £45,000 - 4
Yorkshire +58 1 - - 10
Quality Engineer
UK

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (58.48%) QA
2 92 (53.80%) Manufacturing
3 44 (25.73%) Electronics
4 41 (23.98%) Internal Audit
5 39 (22.81%) Product Requirements
6 38 (22.22%) FMEA
7 37 (21.64%) Collaborative Working
8 23 (13.45%) Automotive
9 19 (11.11%) ISO 9001
10 16 (9.36%) Test Automation
11 11 (6.43%) QMS
12 10 (5.85%) Cost Reduction
13 9 (5.26%) Degree
14 8 (4.68%) Software Testing
14 8 (4.68%) Agile
14 8 (4.68%) Aerospace
14 8 (4.68%) ISO 14001
14 8 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (4.68%) Defect Management
14 8 (4.68%) Code Quality
15 7 (4.09%) Postman
15 7 (4.09%) CI/CD
15 7 (4.09%) DevOps
15 7 (4.09%) Azure
15 7 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (4.09%) ETL
15 7 (4.09%) JMeter
16 6 (3.51%) Migration
16 6 (3.51%) Visual Studio
16 6 (3.51%) Change Management

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Simulink
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.09%) Azure
2 6 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) 5G
1 3 (1.75%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.75%) GSM
1 3 (1.75%) ISDN
1 3 (1.75%) LTE
1 3 (1.75%) PSTN
1 3 (1.75%) UMTS
1 3 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (4.09%) JMeter
1 7 (4.09%) Postman
2 6 (3.51%) SoapUI
2 6 (3.51%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.75%) LabVIEW
3 3 (1.75%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.75%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.58%) MSTest
4 1 (0.58%) Newman
4 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.58%) Selenium
4 1 (0.58%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 92 (53.80%) Manufacturing
2 44 (25.73%) Electronics
3 23 (13.45%) Automotive
4 8 (4.68%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.51%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.34%) Finance
7 3 (1.75%) Aviation
7 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.17%) Games
8 2 (1.17%) Legal
8 2 (1.17%) Retail
9 1 (0.58%) Law
9 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.58%) pytest
1 1 (0.58%) Sass
1 1 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (3.51%) Low-Code
2 3 (1.75%) Acoustics
2 3 (1.75%) Robotics
2 3 (1.75%) Satnav
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (23.98%) Internal Audit
2 39 (22.81%) Product Requirements
3 38 (22.22%) FMEA
4 37 (21.64%) Collaborative Working
5 16 (9.36%) Test Automation
6 11 (6.43%) QMS
7 10 (5.85%) Cost Reduction
8 8 (4.68%) Agile
8 8 (4.68%) Code Quality
8 8 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (4.68%) Defect Management
8 8 (4.68%) Software Testing
9 7 (4.09%) CI/CD
9 7 (4.09%) DevOps
9 7 (4.09%) ETL
10 6 (3.51%) Analytics
10 6 (3.51%) Change Management
10 6 (3.51%) Migration
10 6 (3.51%) Roadmaps
11 5 (2.92%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.34%) Python
1 4 (2.34%) SQL
2 3 (1.75%) MATLAB
3 2 (1.17%) C#
4 1 (0.58%) Bash
4 1 (0.58%) C
4 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (5.26%) Degree
2 4 (2.34%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.58%) HNC
3 1 (0.58%) HND
3 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.58%) NVQ Level 4
3 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (58.48%) QA
2 19 (11.11%) ISO 9001
3 8 (4.68%) ISO 14001
4 3 (1.75%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.75%) GMP
5 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.17%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.58%) COSHH
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (0.58%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (3.51%) MuleSoft
1 6 (3.51%) OutSystems
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.58%) Denodo
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle
3 1 (0.58%) Talend