QA Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Quality Assurance Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the City of London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 162 185
Rank change year-on-year +28 +23 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 4 20 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.20% 0.60% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.62% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 44
10th Percentile £54,625 £45,575 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,688 £57,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +8.51% -9.62%
75th Percentile £71,125 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,650 - -
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,898 3,211 4,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 96.05% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,450 2,540 3,708
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,875 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
% change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 17 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 City of London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Legal
4 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (25.00%) SDET
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (25.00%) Elite 3E
4 1 (25.00%) Katalon Studio

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (25.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (25.00%) SDET
4 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Stress Testing
4 1 (25.00%) System Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft