QA Engineer Job Trends in London

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 364 452
Rank change year-on-year -21 +88 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 37 34 48
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.17% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 25 33 44
10th Percentile £50,500 £40,500 £37,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £61,018 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £71,000 £71,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +20.00% -14.29%

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 20,417 11,390 22,644
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 91.47% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14,059 7,300 16,762
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,655 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,125 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.46% +7.95% -12.50%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 £63,750 - 3
West London -16 2 - - 2
South London - 1 - -
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 37 (100.00%) QA
2 24 (64.86%) Test Automation
3 18 (48.65%) QA Automation
4 15 (40.54%) Selenium
5 14 (37.84%) Agile
6 12 (32.43%) SQL
7 11 (29.73%) AI
7 11 (29.73%) C#
8 10 (27.03%) BDD
8 10 (27.03%) Regression Testing
9 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
9 9 (24.32%) DevOps
9 9 (24.32%) Java
9 9 (24.32%) Validation
10 8 (21.62%) Fintech
10 8 (21.62%) Playwright
10 8 (21.62%) Software Testing
10 8 (21.62%) SpecFlow
10 8 (21.62%) Test Strategy
11 7 (18.92%) Manual Testing
12 6 (16.22%) .NET
12 6 (16.22%) Acceptance Criteria
12 6 (16.22%) API Testing
12 6 (16.22%) Azure
12 6 (16.22%) End-to-End Testing
12 6 (16.22%) Exploratory Testing
12 6 (16.22%) REST
12 6 (16.22%) Scrum
12 6 (16.22%) WebDriver
13 5 (13.51%) Cypress.io

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 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (8.11%) BrowserStack
2 3 (8.11%) GitHub
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.70%) SaaS
3 1 (2.70%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (2.70%) Serverless
3 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) 3GPP
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) MGW
1 2 (5.41%) MVNO
1 2 (5.41%) Packet Switching
1 2 (5.41%) RTP
1 2 (5.41%) SGSN
1 2 (5.41%) SMPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (40.54%) Selenium
2 8 (21.62%) SpecFlow
3 6 (16.22%) WebDriver
4 5 (13.51%) Cypress.io
5 3 (8.11%) Postman
6 2 (5.41%) Git
6 2 (5.41%) GitLab
6 2 (5.41%) JIRA
7 1 (2.70%) Appium
7 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.70%) JMeter
7 1 (2.70%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (27.03%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.11%) Advertising
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Aviation
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Playwright
2 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 6 (16.22%) REST
3 5 (13.51%) JSON
3 5 (13.51%) XML
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.70%) pytest
4 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
4 1 (2.70%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (2.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (8.11%) Housing Association
2 2 (5.41%) IVR
2 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) Hackathon
3 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) PropTech
3 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) Test Automation
2 18 (48.65%) QA Automation
3 14 (37.84%) Agile
4 11 (29.73%) AI
5 10 (27.03%) BDD
5 10 (27.03%) Regression Testing
6 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
6 9 (24.32%) DevOps
6 9 (24.32%) Validation
7 8 (21.62%) Fintech
7 8 (21.62%) Software Testing
7 8 (21.62%) Test Strategy
8 7 (18.92%) Manual Testing
9 6 (16.22%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (16.22%) API Testing
9 6 (16.22%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (16.22%) Exploratory Testing
9 6 (16.22%) Scrum
10 5 (13.51%) Functional Testing
10 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) C#
3 9 (24.32%) Java
4 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.81%) Python
5 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) ISTQB
1 3 (8.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) OCA
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) ISO 13485
3 3 (8.11%) GDPR
4 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.70%) MiFID
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.70%) SAP
2 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.70%) Workday