QA Engineer Jobs 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 to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 430 386
Rank change year-on-year -6 -44 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 59 215 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.60% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.63% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 55 191 393
10th Percentile £37,750 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,164 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.98% +14.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,150 34,100 62,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 95.04% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,676 24,965 34,895
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,375 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in London.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +28 22 £62,500 +8.70%
North London - 3 £40,000 -
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, QA 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 London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) QA
2 29 (49.15%) Test Automation
3 28 (47.46%) API Testing
4 26 (44.07%) Cucumber
5 24 (40.68%) Agile
6 18 (30.51%) BDD
6 18 (30.51%) Manual Testing
6 18 (30.51%) QA Automation
7 17 (28.81%) JIRA
8 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
9 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
9 15 (25.42%) Cypress.io
10 14 (23.73%) Postman
11 13 (22.03%) Gherkin
11 13 (22.03%) SQL
11 13 (22.03%) Java
12 12 (20.34%) Python
12 12 (20.34%) Test Strategy
13 11 (18.64%) Selenium
14 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
14 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
14 10 (16.95%) Azure
14 10 (16.95%) REST
14 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
14 10 (16.95%) SDET
15 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
15 9 (15.25%) Playwright
15 9 (15.25%) SpecFlow
15 9 (15.25%) AWS
15 9 (15.25%) Linux

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Trello
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Azure
2 9 (15.25%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) SaaS
4 5 (8.47%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.39%) ClickUp
5 2 (3.39%) GCP
6 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.69%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.69%) MySQL
1 1 (1.69%) OLTP
1 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (44.07%) Cucumber
2 17 (28.81%) JIRA
3 15 (25.42%) Cypress.io
4 14 (23.73%) Postman
5 11 (18.64%) Selenium
6 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
7 9 (15.25%) SpecFlow
8 7 (11.86%) TeamCity
9 6 (10.17%) Git
10 5 (8.47%) Appium
10 5 (8.47%) JUnit
10 5 (8.47%) REST Assured
11 2 (3.39%) GitLab
11 2 (3.39%) JMeter
11 2 (3.39%) TestNG
12 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.69%) GoogleTest
12 1 (1.69%) Maven
12 1 (1.69%) Mockito
12 1 (1.69%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Automotive
5 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) Gherkin
2 10 (16.95%) REST
3 9 (15.25%) .NET
3 9 (15.25%) Playwright
4 7 (11.86%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.39%) PySpark
5 2 (3.39%) React
5 2 (3.39%) Web Services
5 2 (3.39%) WireMock
6 1 (1.69%) Chai
6 1 (1.69%) HTML
6 1 (1.69%) HTML5
6 1 (1.69%) Jest
6 1 (1.69%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.69%) Puppeteer
6 1 (1.69%) pytest
6 1 (1.69%) Spring
6 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.78%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Hackathon
3 1 (1.69%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.69%) Media Streaming
3 1 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (1.69%) STB
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Android
3 5 (8.47%) Apple iOS
3 5 (8.47%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.08%) Debian
5 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Test Automation
2 28 (47.46%) API Testing
3 24 (40.68%) Agile
4 18 (30.51%) BDD
4 18 (30.51%) Manual Testing
4 18 (30.51%) QA Automation
5 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
6 12 (20.34%) Test Strategy
7 10 (16.95%) SDET
7 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Software Testing
9 8 (13.56%) Exploratory Testing
9 8 (13.56%) Fintech
10 7 (11.86%) End-to-End Testing
10 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.86%) Regression Testing
11 6 (10.17%) Scrum
11 6 (10.17%) TDD
11 6 (10.17%) Test Management
11 6 (10.17%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) Java
1 13 (22.03%) SQL
2 12 (20.34%) Python
3 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 9 (15.25%) C#
5 5 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) C
6 1 (1.69%) C++
6 1 (1.69%) COBOL
6 1 (1.69%) Go
6 1 (1.69%) HLASM
6 1 (1.69%) PHP
6 1 (1.69%) REXX
6 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (11.86%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Consul
2 1 (1.69%) Packer
2 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.39%) Databricks
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.69%) Google
2 1 (1.69%) Hitachi
2 1 (1.69%) Splunk