QA Tester Jobs in the City of London

Quality Assurance Tester
Central London > City of London

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in the City of London is £42,500 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 177 229 254
Rank change year-on-year +52 +25 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 1 4 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.030% 0.084% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.087% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 21
10th Percentile - £57,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £76,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -61.36% +10.00% +158.06%
75th Percentile £43,750 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile - £122,000 -
Central London median annual salary £42,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -61.36% +10.00% +150.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,219 4,624 6,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.53% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,579 3,901 5,616
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,193 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in the City of London

QA Tester
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for QA Tester in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 City of London region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI

QA Tester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Smoke Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle