Quality Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Quality Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Quality Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 201 -
Rank change year-on-year +49 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.075% 0.036% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.038% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £63,375 - -
25th Percentile £64,688 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £45,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% - -
75th Percentile £72,188 - -
90th Percentile £73,125 - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £69,044
% change year-on-year +43.75% -42.07% +4.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,518 5,200 2,367
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 94.32% 88.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 3,569 1,237
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,725 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,000 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -14.68% +8.57%
75th Percentile £58,000 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,625 £69,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the East Midlands

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in the East Midlands

Quality 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 Quality Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 June 2025. 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
Leicestershire - 2 £68,750 - 13
Quality Engineer
England

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 June 2025, Quality 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile

Quality 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA