QA Engineer Job Trends in London

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 372 411
Rank change year-on-year -16 +39 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 54 13 52
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.21% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.12% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 32 11 37
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £81,000 £68,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £80,000 £89,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 23,764 10,802 18,115
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.05% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,164 7,036 11,207
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 27 September 2026. 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
Central London +8 4 £75,000 +20.00% 2
South London - 4 - -
West London - 2 - -
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 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 London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) QA
2 32 (59.26%) Test Automation
3 22 (40.74%) Agile
4 21 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 21 (38.89%) Validation
5 20 (37.04%) Regression Testing
6 14 (25.93%) End-to-End Testing
6 14 (25.93%) Playwright
6 14 (25.93%) Selenium
6 14 (25.93%) SQL
7 13 (24.07%) AI
7 13 (24.07%) QA Automation
8 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (22.22%) REST
8 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
9 11 (20.37%) DevOps
10 10 (18.52%) API Testing
10 10 (18.52%) Cypress.io
10 10 (18.52%) Manual Testing
10 10 (18.52%) Scrum
10 10 (18.52%) Test Strategy
11 9 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
11 9 (16.67%) JIRA
12 8 (14.81%) Azure
12 8 (14.81%) Defect Management
12 8 (14.81%) Defect Tracking
12 8 (14.81%) Exploratory Testing
12 8 (14.81%) SDLC
12 8 (14.81%) Software Delivery
12 8 (14.81%) Software Testing

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) BrowserStack
3 5 (9.26%) GCP
4 4 (7.41%) GitHub
4 4 (7.41%) SaaS
4 4 (7.41%) Tricentis Tosca
5 3 (5.56%) AWS
5 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.85%) n8n
7 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) 3GPP
1 3 (5.56%) DNS
1 3 (5.56%) MGW
1 3 (5.56%) MVNO
1 3 (5.56%) Packet Switching
1 3 (5.56%) RTP
1 3 (5.56%) SGSN
1 3 (5.56%) SMPP
2 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Selenium
2 10 (18.52%) Cypress.io
3 9 (16.67%) JIRA
4 7 (12.96%) Postman
5 6 (11.11%) GitLab
6 5 (9.26%) Gatling
6 5 (9.26%) REST Assured
7 4 (7.41%) Git
8 3 (5.56%) SpecFlow
9 2 (3.70%) HP UFT
9 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
9 2 (3.70%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (3.70%) Robot Framework
9 2 (3.70%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.85%) Appium
10 1 (1.85%) JUnit
10 1 (1.85%) Newman
10 1 (1.85%) TestNG
10 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (20.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Advertising
5 2 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.85%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) Playwright
2 12 (22.22%) REST
3 6 (11.11%) JSON
3 6 (11.11%) React
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (5.56%) Django
5 3 (5.56%) Kafka
5 3 (5.56%) pytest
5 3 (5.56%) React Native
5 3 (5.56%) Swagger
6 2 (3.70%) Flutter
6 2 (3.70%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (3.70%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.85%) .NET
7 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.85%) RESTful
7 1 (1.85%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (1.85%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.96%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.56%) Housing Association
4 3 (5.56%) IVR
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.70%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.85%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.85%) PropTech
6 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Android
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) Test Automation
2 22 (40.74%) Agile
3 21 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.89%) Validation
4 20 (37.04%) Regression Testing
5 14 (25.93%) End-to-End Testing
6 13 (24.07%) AI
6 13 (24.07%) QA Automation
7 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) DevOps
9 10 (18.52%) API Testing
9 10 (18.52%) Manual Testing
9 10 (18.52%) Scrum
9 10 (18.52%) Test Strategy
10 9 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
11 8 (14.81%) Defect Management
11 8 (14.81%) Defect Tracking
11 8 (14.81%) Exploratory Testing
11 8 (14.81%) SDLC
11 8 (14.81%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) SQL
2 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 5 (9.26%) Python
4 4 (7.41%) C#
4 4 (7.41%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.56%) Java
5 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.85%) Go
6 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) OCA
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 3 (5.56%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.11%) GDPR
3 4 (7.41%) ISO 13485
4 3 (5.56%) WCAG
5 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Oracle
2 5 (9.26%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.41%) SAP
3 4 (7.41%) Workday
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft