QA Test Engineer Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 818 845
Rank change year-on-year +143 +27 +213
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 14 13 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.015% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.016% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 56
10th Percentile £35,300 - £30,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £63,250 £43,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £66,600 £47,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +53.33% -25.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Engineer in England

QA Test Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Test Engineer in England.

Salary trend for QA Test Engineer in England

QA Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Test Engineer in England

QA Test Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
London - 4 £65,000 - 6
South East +95 2 £62,750 +61.94% 1
Midlands +60 2 £42,500 - 2
East Midlands +34 2 £42,500 +21.43% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £59,800 -
South West - 1 £35,000 -
North of England - 1 £59,800 - 1
QA Test Engineer
UK

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, QA Test 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 England region featuring QA Test Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) QA
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 11 (78.57%) Agile
4 9 (64.29%) Selenium
4 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
5 8 (57.14%) Test Scripting
6 7 (50.00%) Java
7 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
7 6 (42.86%) ISTQB
7 6 (42.86%) Manual Testing
8 5 (35.71%) Security Testing
8 5 (35.71%) Azure
8 5 (35.71%) JIRA
8 5 (35.71%) Appium
9 4 (28.57%) GCP
9 4 (28.57%) DevOps
9 4 (28.57%) API Testing
9 4 (28.57%) Fintech
9 4 (28.57%) Postman
9 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
9 4 (28.57%) C#
9 4 (28.57%) Python
9 4 (28.57%) AWS
9 4 (28.57%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (28.57%) Cantonese Language
10 3 (21.43%) Scrum
10 3 (21.43%) Test Management
10 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
10 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
10 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Selenium
2 5 (35.71%) Appium
2 5 (35.71%) JIRA
3 4 (28.57%) Postman
4 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 2 (14.29%) JUnit
4 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
5 1 (7.14%) GitLab
5 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.14%) JMeter
5 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
5 1 (7.14%) TestComplete
5 1 (7.14%) TestNG
5 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (28.57%) Cantonese Language
1 4 (28.57%) Mandarin Language
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Billing
2 1 (7.14%) Games
2 1 (7.14%) Law
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Cordova
1 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.14%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (7.14%) OpenCV
1 1 (7.14%) Playwright
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 11 (78.57%) Agile
3 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
4 8 (57.14%) Test Scripting
5 6 (42.86%) Manual Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Security Testing
7 4 (28.57%) API Testing
7 4 (28.57%) DevOps
7 4 (28.57%) Fintech
8 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
8 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (21.43%) QA Automation
8 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
8 3 (21.43%) Scrum
8 3 (21.43%) Test Management
8 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
9 2 (14.29%) CRM
9 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
9 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) CyberSource
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft