QA Engineer Jobs in Chelmsford

Quality Assurance Engineer
Essex > Chelmsford

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Chelmsford is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chelmsford 2.27% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 - -
Essex median annual salary £53,000 £38,000 -
% change year-on-year +39.47% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chelmsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chelmsford. 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 Chelmsford with a recognized job title 38 120 109
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.36% 93.75% 79.56%
Number of salaries quoted 36 105 60
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £25,450
25th Percentile £39,813 £32,500 £30,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,297 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.80% -0.44% -13.89%
75th Percentile £67,000 £63,750 £50,419
90th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £65,025
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Chelmsford

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 Chelmsford region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA