QA Engineer Job Trends in Guildford

Quality Assurance Engineer
Surrey > Guildford

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Guildford is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 0.52% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Guildford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Guildford. 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 Guildford with a recognized job title 174 177 125
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 99.44% 99.21%
Number of salaries quoted 154 78 101
10th Percentile £26,500 £33,525 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £60,250 £74,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £82,500 £69,500
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'QA Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Guildford

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Guildford.

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Guildford

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, QA Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Guildford region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA