QA Tester Jobs in Guildford

Quality Assurance Tester
Surrey > Guildford

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in Guildford is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 1.90% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% - 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £35,000
75th Percentile £48,750 - £37,500
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median annual salary £47,500 - £28,000
% change year-on-year - - -25.33%

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 98 328 375
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.39% 97.66%
Number of salaries quoted 83 304 247
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £77,500
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Job postings that featured QA Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in Guildford

QA Tester
Salary Trend in Guildford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Tester in Guildford.

Salary trend for QA Tester in Guildford

QA Tester Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, QA Tester 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 Guildford region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA