QA Engineer Job Trends in Bournemouth

Quality Assurance Engineer
Dorset > Bournemouth

As of 30 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Bournemouth.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 29 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 1.38% 1.29% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.36% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -46.62%
75th Percentile - - £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary - £50,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year - +29.03% -44.84%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bournemouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bournemouth. 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 Bournemouth with a recognized job title 139 147 135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 94.84% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 99 100 127
10th Percentile £27,707 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
Dorset median annual salary £40,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.50% -9.09% +10.00%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'QA Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Bournemouth.

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Bournemouth

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, QA Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bournemouth region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk