QA Test Engineer Jobs in London

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer salary in London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

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

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 508 612
Rank change year-on-year +109 +104 +236
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 4 1 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.031% 0.004% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.005% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 26
10th Percentile £47,000 - £28,750
25th Percentile £53,750 - £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +12.36% -28.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £55,589
90th Percentile £73,000 - £62,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £38,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +48.39% -22.50% -9.09%

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 11,591 22,195 33,076
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 94.12% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,387 16,681 24,330
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Engineer in London

QA Test Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA Test Engineer in London

QA Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Test Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Test Engineer in London

QA Test 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 Test Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
West London - 1 £75,000 -
QA Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, QA Test 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Law
4 1 (25.00%) Legal
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing

QA Test 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (25.00%) TestComplete
3 1 (25.00%) TestNG
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft