QA Tester Jobs in Birmingham

Quality Assurance Tester
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in Birmingham is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 128 187
Rank change year-on-year -11 +59 -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 5 8 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.18% 0.41% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.44% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 £22,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £23,500 £28,750
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% -18.26% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £24,250 £33,438
90th Percentile - £33,100 £35,125
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,601 1,816 2,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 93.37% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,116 1,386 2,275
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,997 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured QA Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in Birmingham

QA Tester
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Tester in Birmingham.

Salary trend for QA Tester in Birmingham

QA Tester Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 Birmingham region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Fintech
1 5 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Banking

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Fintech
1 5 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA