QA Engineer Jobs in Cheltenham

Quality Assurance Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 0.96% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £38,500 - -
25th Percentile £43,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £54,500 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year +36.25% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 405 246 371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.89% 82.00% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 308 211 305
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £44,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,500 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +32.10% +0.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £62,827
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.01%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Cheltenham

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Cheltenham

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Cheltenham

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Cheltenham region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) Postman
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Epics
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware