QA Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £48,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 177 190
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 6 5 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.14% 0.17% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £34,375 £47,875 £35,300
25th Percentile £38,438 £48,438 £40,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £53,750 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +21.47% -1.67%
75th Percentile £64,688 £60,000 £49,375
90th Percentile £74,375 £64,500 £52,375
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,164 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.98% +14.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,049 2,527 3,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 87.96% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,974 1,400 2,221
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the East Midlands

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the East Midlands

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the East Midlands

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -9 5 £52,500 -2.33%
Derbyshire - 1 £45,000 - 1
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 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 East Midlands region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (33.33%) Selenium
5 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) SaaS
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) API Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Playwright
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (16.67%) OO
6 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Finance
6 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (16.67%) Agile
6 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (16.67%) AWS

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA