Senior QA Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer salary in England is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 642 823 806
Rank change year-on-year +181 -17 +148
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 17 12 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.014% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.014% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17 9 66
10th Percentile - £42,250 £45,000
25th Percentile - £42,500 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £65,250 £74,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.86% - +12.00%

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 44,066 84,104 79,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.65% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,206 62,399 50,596
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Engineer in England

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior QA Engineer in England

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior QA Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior QA Engineer in England

Senior QA 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 Senior QA Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
East of England +49 9 £53,000 +24.71% 6
London +100 5 £62,500 -10.71% 16
Midlands +61 2 £56,250 -27.42% 3
East Midlands +35 2 £56,250 -27.42% 3
South East +98 1 £61,500 +36.67% 4
Senior QA Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
3 13 (76.47%) Manual Testing
3 13 (76.47%) Selenium
4 12 (70.59%) Test Scripting
5 11 (64.71%) Agile
6 10 (58.82%) Software Testing
6 10 (58.82%) ISTQB
6 10 (58.82%) Legal
7 9 (52.94%) Project Management
7 9 (52.94%) Law
7 9 (52.94%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (52.94%) Process Improvement
7 9 (52.94%) JIRA
7 9 (52.94%) Defect Tracking
8 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
8 4 (23.53%) Exploratory Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
9 3 (17.65%) SaaS
9 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
10 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 2 (11.76%) Postman
10 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
10 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
10 2 (11.76%) C#
11 1 (5.88%) Java
11 1 (5.88%) JavaScript

Senior QA 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Selenium
2 9 (52.94%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) Appium
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (58.82%) Legal
2 9 (52.94%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 13 (76.47%) Manual Testing
3 12 (70.59%) Test Scripting
4 11 (64.71%) Agile
5 10 (58.82%) Software Testing
6 9 (52.94%) Defect Tracking
6 9 (52.94%) Process Improvement
6 9 (52.94%) Project Management
6 9 (52.94%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Exploratory Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
9 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
10 1 (5.88%) End-to-End Testing
10 1 (5.88%) Fintech
10 1 (5.88%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible