Software QA Engineer Jobs in England

Software Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Quality Assurance Engineer salary in England is £49,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 840 907 1098
Rank change year-on-year +67 +191 -256
Permanent jobs requiring a Software QA Engineer 4 40 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.005% 0.043% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.047% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 40
10th Percentile £36,400 £43,125 £40,625
25th Percentile £36,625 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - £68,875
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +11.11%

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 80,507 84,319 127,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,203 53,445 75,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,761 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software QA Engineer in England

Software QA Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software QA Engineer in England

Software QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software QA Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software QA Engineer in England

Software 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 Software QA Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
South West -25 2 £60,000 +20.00%
South East +4 1 £37,500 -11.76% 1
North East - 1 £38,500 -
North of England - 1 £38,500 -
Software QA Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Software 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 Software QA Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Confluence
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Swagger
3 2 (50.00%) Fintech
3 2 (50.00%) Postman
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Games
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
4 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Biomedicine
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance