QA Tester Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in England is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 832 831 1019
Rank change year-on-year -1 +188 -232
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 29 81 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.093% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22 77 111
10th Percentile £36,250 £22,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £51,563 £65,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £57,000 £74,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 83,290 79,596 132,501
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.49% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,942 50,734 74,857
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Tester in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
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 Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
Midlands -22 10 £40,000 +45.45%
London +88 9 £47,500 -24.00% 2
North of England +39 5 £40,000 -20.00% 2
North West +5 5 £40,000 -33.33% 2
West Midlands -10 5 £40,000 -
East Midlands -15 5 - -
South East -16 2 £42,500 -10.53% 1
South West -31 2 £40,000 -11.11%
QA Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 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 England region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
3 16 (55.17%) Agile
4 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (34.48%) Software Testing
5 10 (34.48%) Selenium
5 10 (34.48%) Scrum
5 10 (34.48%) Cucumber
6 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (27.59%) BDD
7 8 (27.59%) Project Management
7 8 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
8 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 7 (24.14%) Web Development
8 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
8 7 (24.14%) B2B
8 7 (24.14%) AWS
8 7 (24.14%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (24.14%) DevOps
9 6 (20.69%) Functional Testing
9 6 (20.69%) Java
9 6 (20.69%) JIRA
9 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
10 5 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (17.24%) Backlog Refinement
10 5 (17.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 5 (17.24%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (17.24%) TDD
10 5 (17.24%) Retail

QA Tester 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 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) SaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
1 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Cucumber
1 10 (34.48%) Selenium
2 6 (20.69%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
4 3 (10.34%) Appium
4 3 (10.34%) JMeter
4 3 (10.34%) SpecFlow
5 2 (6.90%) Git
5 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
5 2 (6.90%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.45%) GitLab
6 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.45%) JUnit
6 1 (3.45%) Postman
6 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (17.24%) Retail
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Spring
1 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
2 4 (13.79%) RESTful
3 3 (10.34%) Playwright
3 3 (10.34%) SOAP
4 2 (6.90%) CSS
4 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
4 2 (6.90%) HTML
4 2 (6.90%) React
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.45%) Jest
5 1 (3.45%) jQuery
5 1 (3.45%) PySpark
5 1 (3.45%) Swagger
5 1 (3.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Debian
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (34.48%) Scrum
4 10 (34.48%) Software Testing
5 8 (27.59%) BDD
5 8 (27.59%) Project Management
5 8 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (24.14%) B2B
6 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 7 (24.14%) DevOps
6 7 (24.14%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (24.14%) Web Development
7 6 (20.69%) Functional Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Agile Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Fintech
8 5 (17.24%) Software Delivery
8 5 (17.24%) Test Management
8 5 (17.24%) Test Strategy
8 5 (17.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) C#
2 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Ruby
4 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) ISEB
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle