QA Engineer Job Trends in Liverpool

Quality Assurance Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Liverpool is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Liverpool 0.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 1,066 373 659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 94.19% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 662 190 455
10th Percentile £30,075 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,188 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% +6.06%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,279
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,875 £81,249
Merseyside median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +1.27%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Liverpool

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Liverpool

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Liverpool.

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Liverpool

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Liverpool

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Liverpool over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Liverpool

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, 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 Liverpool region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) TestFlight

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) BrowserStack
2 2 (40.00%) TestFlight
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 5 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft