QA Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > East of England

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the East of England is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 216 204
Rank change year-on-year +47 -12 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 13 9 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.40% 0.14% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.15% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 1
10th Percentile £42,825 £36,025 -
25th Percentile £52,875 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile - £46,813 £48,750
90th Percentile - £57,200 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -7.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,096 5,947 4,217
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 93.98% 83.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,473 4,551 2,157
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the East of England

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the East of England

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the East of England

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Cambridgeshire +37 5 £53,000 +32.50% 14
Essex +16 3 £53,000 +39.47% 16
Suffolk - 3 £53,000 - 6
Hertfordshire +32 2 £49,250 -8.80% 32
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 28 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 East of England region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (76.92%) Selenium
2 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 10 (76.92%) Process Improvement
3 9 (69.23%) Defect Tracking
3 9 (69.23%) JIRA
3 9 (69.23%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (69.23%) Test Scripting
3 9 (69.23%) Manual Testing
3 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
3 9 (69.23%) ISTQB
3 9 (69.23%) Project Management
3 9 (69.23%) Law
3 9 (69.23%) Legal
3 9 (69.23%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Python
5 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Degree
5 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
6 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
6 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (7.69%) QA Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (7.69%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub
1 1 (7.69%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Selenium
2 9 (69.23%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) JMeter
4 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 9 (69.23%) Law
1 9 (69.23%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Process Improvement
1 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Defect Tracking
2 9 (69.23%) Manual Testing
2 9 (69.23%) Project Management
2 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
2 9 (69.23%) Test Scripting
2 9 (69.23%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
4 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Document Management
4 1 (7.69%) Mathematics
4 1 (7.69%) Physics
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) QA Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) ISTQB
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) SAP