QA Tester Jobs in Central London

Quality Assurance Tester
London > Central London

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in Central London is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 238 280
Rank change year-on-year +46 +42 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 3 4 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.079% 0.076% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.079% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 20
10th Percentile £37,250 £57,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £76,875 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -61.36% +10.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £43,750 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile - £122,000 -
London median annual salary £47,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% +10.00%

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 3,598 5,042 7,714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 96.06% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 4,204 6,465
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,250 £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 Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in Central London

QA Tester
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for QA Tester in Central London

QA Tester
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 Tester within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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 +52 2 £40,000 -63.64% 1
QA Tester
London

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Central London region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Debian

QA Tester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Debian
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) API Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle