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 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 369 415
Rank change year-on-year -23 +46 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 41 27 41
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.18% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 25 26 38
10th Percentile £51,000 £42,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,188
90th Percentile £80,600 £70,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +21.05% -7.32%

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 21,689 11,319 18,720
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 91.85% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14,872 7,390 13,119
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,430 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 2 August 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 2 August 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
South London - 4 - -
Central London -1 3 £75,000 +20.00% 1
West London - 2 - -
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 41 (100.00%) QA
2 24 (58.54%) Test Automation
3 18 (43.90%) Agile
4 15 (36.59%) QA Automation
5 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
6 13 (31.71%) Selenium
7 12 (29.27%) Regression Testing
7 12 (29.27%) SQL
7 12 (29.27%) Validation
8 10 (24.39%) DevOps
8 10 (24.39%) Playwright
9 9 (21.95%) C#
9 9 (21.95%) REST
9 9 (21.95%) Scrum
10 8 (19.51%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (19.51%) AI
10 8 (19.51%) API Testing
10 8 (19.51%) End-to-End Testing
10 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (17.07%) Exploratory Testing
11 7 (17.07%) Manual Testing
11 7 (17.07%) Software Testing
11 7 (17.07%) SpecFlow
12 6 (14.63%) BDD
12 6 (14.63%) Cypress.io
12 6 (14.63%) Java
12 6 (14.63%) JIRA
12 6 (14.63%) Oracle
12 6 (14.63%) Software Delivery
12 6 (14.63%) Test Strategy

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 5 (12.20%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) SaaS
2 4 (9.76%) Tricentis Tosca
3 3 (7.32%) BrowserStack
4 2 (4.88%) AWS
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) 3GPP
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
1 2 (4.88%) MGW
1 2 (4.88%) MVNO
1 2 (4.88%) Packet Switching
1 2 (4.88%) RTP
1 2 (4.88%) SGSN
1 2 (4.88%) SMPP
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Selenium
2 7 (17.07%) SpecFlow
3 6 (14.63%) Cypress.io
3 6 (14.63%) JIRA
4 5 (12.20%) GitLab
4 5 (12.20%) WebDriver
5 4 (9.76%) Git
6 3 (7.32%) Postman
7 1 (2.44%) Appium
7 1 (2.44%) Gatling
7 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.44%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.44%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (29.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Finance
4 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.32%) Advertising
7 1 (2.44%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) Playwright
2 9 (21.95%) REST
3 5 (12.20%) .NET
3 5 (12.20%) JSON
4 4 (9.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (9.76%) React
4 4 (9.76%) XML
5 3 (7.32%) Django
5 3 (7.32%) pytest
6 1 (2.44%) Kafka
6 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.44%) React Native
6 1 (2.44%) RESTful
6 1 (2.44%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (2.44%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.32%) Housing Association
3 3 (7.32%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.88%) IVR
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Hackathon
5 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) PropTech
5 1 (2.44%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) Android
3 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) Test Automation
2 18 (43.90%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) QA Automation
4 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
5 12 (29.27%) Regression Testing
5 12 (29.27%) Validation
6 10 (24.39%) DevOps
7 9 (21.95%) Scrum
8 8 (19.51%) Acceptance Criteria
8 8 (19.51%) AI
8 8 (19.51%) API Testing
8 8 (19.51%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (17.07%) Exploratory Testing
9 7 (17.07%) Manual Testing
9 7 (17.07%) Software Testing
10 6 (14.63%) BDD
10 6 (14.63%) Software Delivery
10 6 (14.63%) Test Strategy
11 5 (12.20%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) SQL
2 9 (21.95%) C#
3 6 (14.63%) Java
3 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.20%) Python
5 4 (9.76%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) OCA
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) ISTQB
3 3 (7.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (12.20%) GDPR
3 4 (9.76%) ISO 13485
4 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.44%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) Salesforce
2 4 (9.76%) SAP
2 4 (9.76%) Workday
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft