QA Engineer Job Trends in London

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 340 444
Rank change year-on-year -28 +104 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 30 50 61
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.15% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.43% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 24 43 57
10th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,813 £70,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £59,800 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.39% +19.60% -7.69%

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 18,019 11,615 21,899
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 90.48% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 12,116 7,558 16,670
10th Percentile £39,250 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £54,633 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +2 6 £62,500 -5.66% 3
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 30 (100.00%) QA
2 27 (90.00%) Test Automation
3 22 (73.33%) QA Automation
4 15 (50.00%) Selenium
5 13 (43.33%) BDD
5 13 (43.33%) C#
5 13 (43.33%) SQL
6 12 (40.00%) Agile
6 12 (40.00%) AI
7 11 (36.67%) Fintech
7 11 (36.67%) Java
7 11 (36.67%) Playwright
7 11 (36.67%) Test Strategy
8 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
8 9 (30.00%) SpecFlow
9 8 (26.67%) Software Testing
10 7 (23.33%) API Testing
10 7 (23.33%) Cypress.io
10 7 (23.33%) Manual Testing
10 7 (23.33%) Regression Testing
11 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 6 (20.00%) DevOps
11 6 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
11 6 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
11 6 (20.00%) Functional Testing
11 6 (20.00%) ISTQB
11 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (20.00%) Python
11 6 (20.00%) Test Planning
11 6 (20.00%) XML

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (6.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (3.33%) BrowserStack
2 1 (3.33%) GitHub
2 1 (3.33%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (3.33%) Serverless
2 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Selenium
2 9 (30.00%) SpecFlow
3 7 (23.33%) Cypress.io
4 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
5 4 (13.33%) Postman
6 2 (6.67%) Appium
6 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.67%) Git
6 2 (6.67%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.33%) JIRA
7 1 (3.33%) JMeter
7 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.00%) Advertising
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) Playwright
2 6 (20.00%) XML
3 5 (16.67%) .NET
3 5 (16.67%) JSON
3 5 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (6.67%) pytest
5 1 (3.33%) SOAP
5 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (10.00%) Housing Association
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (73.33%) QA Automation
3 13 (43.33%) BDD
4 12 (40.00%) Agile
4 12 (40.00%) AI
5 11 (36.67%) Fintech
5 11 (36.67%) Test Strategy
6 8 (26.67%) Software Testing
7 7 (23.33%) API Testing
7 7 (23.33%) Manual Testing
7 7 (23.33%) Regression Testing
8 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 6 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 6 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
8 6 (20.00%) Functional Testing
8 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.00%) Test Planning
9 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (16.67%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) C#
1 13 (43.33%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) Java
3 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) Python
5 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 5 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) ISO 13485
3 1 (3.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) SAP
1 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow