Senior QA Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Quality Assurance Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 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 768 755 860
Rank change year-on-year -13 +105 -177
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Tester 3 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.011% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.013% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile - £35,500 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +38.46% -21.21%
75th Percentile £48,125 £47,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £50,750 £50,500 £48,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -22.41% +75.76%

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 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
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 £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior QA Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior QA Tester in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior QA Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior QA Tester
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 Senior QA Tester within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +34 2 £42,500 -5.56%
North West +10 2 £42,500 -5.56%
South West -21 1 £50,000 +11.11%
Senior QA Tester
UK

Senior QA Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior QA Tester 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 Senior QA Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management

Senior QA Tester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA