QA Engineer Jobs in Central London

Quality Assurance Engineer
London > Central London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Central London is £62,500 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 177 201 172
Rank change year-on-year +24 -29 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 21 47 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.55% 0.91% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.95% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 21 46 127
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,563 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -9.62% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £91,250
London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,607 4,963 7,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.17% 96.01% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 4,137 6,374
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured QA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Central London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in Central London.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Central London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Central London

QA Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Central 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
City of London +22 20 £63,750 +6.25%
QA Engineer
London

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, QA 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 Central London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 15 (71.43%) API Testing
3 10 (47.62%) Cucumber
4 8 (38.10%) Manual Testing
4 8 (38.10%) Gherkin
4 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (38.10%) Postman
5 7 (33.33%) Accessibility
5 7 (33.33%) SpecFlow
5 7 (33.33%) REST
5 7 (33.33%) Cypress.io
5 7 (33.33%) TeamCity
5 7 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 7 (33.33%) C#
5 7 (33.33%) SQL
5 7 (33.33%) .NET
6 6 (28.57%) SDET
7 5 (23.81%) Playwright
7 5 (23.81%) JIRA
7 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Linux
8 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 4 (19.05%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (19.05%) QA Automation
8 4 (19.05%) Fintech
8 4 (19.05%) Exploratory Testing
9 3 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
9 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (14.29%) CI/CD

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (9.52%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) BrowserStack
1 2 (9.52%) ClickUp
1 2 (9.52%) GCP
1 2 (9.52%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Cucumber
2 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) Postman
3 7 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 7 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 7 (33.33%) TeamCity
4 5 (23.81%) JIRA
5 1 (4.76%) Appium
5 1 (4.76%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (4.76%) JUnit
5 1 (4.76%) Selenium
5 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.76%) TestComplete
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Gherkin
2 7 (33.33%) .NET
2 7 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 7 (33.33%) REST
3 5 (23.81%) Playwright
4 1 (4.76%) Puppeteer
4 1 (4.76%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.76%) Bitcoin
2 1 (4.76%) Derivative
2 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Debian
2 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 2 (9.52%) Android
3 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) API Testing
2 8 (38.10%) Manual Testing
3 6 (28.57%) SDET
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Exploratory Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Fintech
4 4 (19.05%) QA Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Build Automation
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (14.29%) Test Management
6 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Project Management
6 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (9.52%) Sprint Review
6 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
6 2 (9.52%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) C#
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk