QA Engineer Jobs in London

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 461 415
Rank change year-on-year +96 -46 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 31 46 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.20% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.21% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 30 42 157
10th Percentile £42,250 £40,000 £38,850
25th Percentile £49,375 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,125 £80,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 12,033 21,986 27,482
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 94.37% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,404 15,933 21,585
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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 +12 4 £63,750 -
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, 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 31 (100.00%) QA
2 29 (93.55%) Test Automation
3 18 (58.06%) Selenium
4 16 (51.61%) Manual Testing
5 15 (48.39%) Agile
6 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (32.26%) Software Testing
8 8 (25.81%) ISTQB
8 8 (25.81%) Test Scripting
8 8 (25.81%) DevOps
8 8 (25.81%) Playwright
9 7 (22.58%) Azure
9 7 (22.58%) JIRA
9 7 (22.58%) Regression Testing
10 6 (19.35%) Legal
10 6 (19.35%) Test Management
10 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (19.35%) Appium
10 6 (19.35%) Defect Tracking
10 6 (19.35%) QA Automation
10 6 (19.35%) Postman
10 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
10 6 (19.35%) Code Quality
11 5 (16.13%) Defect Management
11 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
11 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
11 5 (16.13%) ISEB
11 5 (16.13%) C#

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (58.06%) Selenium
2 7 (22.58%) JIRA
3 6 (19.35%) Appium
3 6 (19.35%) Postman
4 4 (12.90%) Cypress.io
5 3 (9.68%) SpecFlow
6 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.45%) Git
6 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.45%) JUnit
6 2 (6.45%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (6.45%) TestNG
6 2 (6.45%) WebDriver
7 1 (3.23%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (3.23%) NeoLoad
7 1 (3.23%) RSpec
7 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.23%) TestComplete
7 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (19.35%) Legal
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Playwright
2 4 (12.90%) Gherkin
3 3 (9.68%) JSON
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) CSS
4 2 (6.45%) HTML
4 2 (6.45%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.23%) pytest
5 1 (3.23%) REST
5 1 (3.23%) RESTful
5 1 (3.23%) SOAP
5 1 (3.23%) Swagger
5 1 (3.23%) XML
5 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Digital Media
2 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) Test Automation
2 16 (51.61%) Manual Testing
3 15 (48.39%) Agile
4 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (32.26%) Software Testing
6 8 (25.81%) DevOps
6 8 (25.81%) Test Scripting
7 7 (22.58%) Regression Testing
8 6 (19.35%) Code Quality
8 6 (19.35%) Defect Tracking
8 6 (19.35%) QA Automation
8 6 (19.35%) Test Management
9 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (16.13%) Defect Management
9 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
10 4 (12.90%) API Testing
10 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
10 4 (12.90%) Exploratory Testing
11 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Culture
11 3 (9.68%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) C#
1 5 (16.13%) Java
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) PHP
5 1 (3.23%) Go
5 1 (3.23%) Scala
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) ISTQB
2 5 (16.13%) ISEB
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Mercator