QA Engineer Jobs in Cheltenham

Quality Assurance Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £48,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £35,375 - -
25th Percentile £35,938 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £54,000 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year +35.00% - -

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 375 265 376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.40% 83.07% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 299 204 316
10th Percentile £29,700 £31,625 £30,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £35,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% -
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 17 May 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 17 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 Cheltenham region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 5 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Postman
3 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Testing
4 2 (40.00%) User Stories
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) ISEB
4 2 (40.00%) Firmware

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 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 2 (40.00%) User Stories
5 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware