Quality Engineer Jobs in England

Quality Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Engineer salary in England is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 695 803 954
Rank change year-on-year +108 +151 -197
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 142 144 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 78 58 113
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £49,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £69,044 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.07% +6.22% +12.07%
75th Percentile £45,000 £85,000 £83,500
90th Percentile £51,500 £88,149 £95,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £66,911 £59,500
% change year-on-year -40.22% +12.46% +2.59%

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 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 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
South East +64 75 £40,000 -23.81% 39
Midlands +6 25 £43,750 - 17
South West +3 25 £37,500 -25.00% 23
West Midlands +16 23 £42,500 - 13
North of England +26 9 £40,000 -30.43% 44
London +80 5 £40,000 -43.33% 13
North West +16 5 £45,000 - 24
East of England +24 3 £40,000 - 9
North East - 3 £40,000 - 10
East Midlands -14 2 £45,000 - 4
Yorkshire +65 1 - - 14
Quality Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 87 (61.27%) QA
2 83 (58.45%) Manufacturing
3 46 (32.39%) Electronics
4 44 (30.99%) Internal Audit
5 43 (30.28%) Product Requirements
6 42 (29.58%) FMEA
7 37 (26.06%) Collaborative Working
8 19 (13.38%) Automotive
9 17 (11.97%) ISO 9001
10 11 (7.75%) QMS
11 10 (7.04%) Cost Reduction
11 10 (7.04%) Test Automation
12 8 (5.63%) Degree
12 8 (5.63%) ISO 14001
12 8 (5.63%) Aerospace
13 7 (4.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (4.93%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (4.93%) Code Quality
14 6 (4.23%) Telecoms
15 5 (3.52%) Quality Management
15 5 (3.52%) Agile
16 4 (2.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 4 (2.82%) Test Scripting
16 4 (2.82%) Six Sigma
16 4 (2.82%) Finance
17 3 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
17 3 (2.11%) Wireless
17 3 (2.11%) MATLAB
17 3 (2.11%) Simulink
17 3 (2.11%) Microsoft

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:

Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Simulink
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.41%) AWS
2 1 (0.70%) Azure
2 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) 5G
1 3 (2.11%) Bluetooth
1 3 (2.11%) GSM
1 3 (2.11%) ISDN
1 3 (2.11%) LTE
1 3 (2.11%) PSTN
1 3 (2.11%) UMTS
1 3 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (2.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (2.11%) LabVIEW
1 3 (2.11%) Postman
1 3 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
1 3 (2.11%) Rational Rhapsody
1 3 (2.11%) Selenium
2 2 (1.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) JMeter
3 1 (0.70%) Newman
3 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 83 (58.45%) Manufacturing
2 46 (32.39%) Electronics
3 19 (13.38%) Automotive
4 8 (5.63%) Aerospace
5 6 (4.23%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.82%) Finance
7 3 (2.11%) Aviation
7 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Games
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.70%) Sass
1 1 (0.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.11%) Acoustics
1 3 (2.11%) Robotics
1 3 (2.11%) Satnav
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.99%) Internal Audit
2 43 (30.28%) Product Requirements
3 42 (29.58%) FMEA
4 37 (26.06%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (7.75%) QMS
6 10 (7.04%) Cost Reduction
6 10 (7.04%) Test Automation
7 7 (4.93%) Code Quality
7 7 (4.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (4.93%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (3.52%) Agile
8 5 (3.52%) Quality Management
9 4 (2.82%) Six Sigma
9 4 (2.82%) Test Scripting
10 3 (2.11%) Coaching
10 3 (2.11%) Critical Thinking
10 3 (2.11%) Data Management
10 3 (2.11%) Test Strategy
11 2 (1.41%) Computer Science
11 2 (1.41%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.11%) MATLAB
1 3 (2.11%) Python
1 3 (2.11%) SQL
2 2 (1.41%) Java
3 1 (0.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (5.63%) Degree
2 4 (2.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 3 (2.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.70%) NVQ Level 4
4 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (61.27%) QA
2 17 (11.97%) ISO 9001
3 8 (5.63%) ISO 14001
4 3 (2.11%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.41%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.70%) COSHH
6 1 (0.70%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.70%) Denodo
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle
2 1 (0.70%) Talend