Quality Engineer Jobs in Leicestershire

Quality Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Quality Engineer salary in Leicestershire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.88% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £57,250 - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile £81,250 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 -
% change year-on-year +44.44% - -

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Leicestershire with a recognized job title 535 876 718
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 92.70% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 206 415 271
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,850 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,313 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £58,000 £60,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Job postings that featured Quality Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in Leicestershire

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for Quality Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire.

Salary distribution trend for Quality Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in Leicestershire

Quality Engineer
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Engineer within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester - 5 £65,000 - 3
Quality Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 2025, 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 Leicestershire region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Groovy
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (20.00%) QA
5 1 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA