Quality Engineer Jobs in England

Quality Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 687 792
Rank change year-on-year +48 +105 +159
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 32 144 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 23 83 58
10th Percentile £47,231 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,615 £38,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,000 £67,206
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -40.48% +3.39%
75th Percentile £70,625 £46,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £50,000 £88,149
UK median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £66,911
% change year-on-year +43.75% -40.22% +11.52%

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 43,417 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in England

Quality 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 Quality Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
South West +95 7 £71,991 +91.98% 13
Yorkshire +67 7 £48,507 - 2
North of England +47 7 £48,507 +21.27% 14
London +113 6 £67,500 +68.75% 79
East of England +37 3 £45,750 +14.38% 22
Midlands +38 2 - - 17
West Midlands +36 2 - - 10
South East +24 2 £62,500 +56.25% 38
Quality Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 England region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (68.75%) Test Automation
2 21 (65.63%) Agile
3 16 (50.00%) Java
4 14 (43.75%) DevOps
5 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
6 12 (37.50%) Finance
7 11 (34.38%) Banking
7 11 (34.38%) QA
7 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
8 9 (28.13%) Test Scripting
9 8 (25.00%) Test Strategy
9 8 (25.00%) Cucumber
9 8 (25.00%) BDD
10 7 (21.88%) AWS
10 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
10 7 (21.88%) Defect Management
10 7 (21.88%) Scrum
10 7 (21.88%) Selenium
10 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
11 6 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (18.75%) JIRA
11 6 (18.75%) Python
11 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (18.75%) Azure
11 6 (18.75%) Confluence
11 6 (18.75%) Agile Testing
12 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (15.63%) Git
12 5 (15.63%) Docker
12 5 (15.63%) GCP

Quality 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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Elite 3E
1 1 (3.13%) SAP QM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 7 (21.88%) Selenium
4 6 (18.75%) JIRA
5 5 (15.63%) Git
6 4 (12.50%) Appium
6 4 (12.50%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (9.38%) Maven
8 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (3.13%) Gradle
8 1 (3.13%) JMeter
8 1 (3.13%) JUnit
8 1 (3.13%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
8 1 (3.13%) NeoLoad
8 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (3.13%) Spinnaker
8 1 (3.13%) TestNG
8 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Banking
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Cantonese Language
5 4 (12.50%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.25%) Electronics
7 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.13%) Advertising
8 1 (3.13%) Law
8 1 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Local Government
8 1 (3.13%) Police
8 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) Playwright
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.13%) CAN bus
3 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.13%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.13%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Test Automation
2 21 (65.63%) Agile
3 14 (43.75%) DevOps
4 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
5 9 (28.13%) Test Scripting
6 8 (25.00%) BDD
6 8 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 7 (21.88%) Defect Management
7 7 (21.88%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) Agile Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
9 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.63%) Security Testing
10 4 (12.50%) Benchmarking
10 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (12.50%) Fintech
10 4 (12.50%) Process Improvement
10 4 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (18.75%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) ISTQB
2 4 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) CSQE
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) Basel III
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) IFRS
3 1 (3.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Automation Anywhere
2 1 (3.13%) Blue Prism
2 1 (3.13%) UiPath