Quality Engineer Jobs in London

Quality Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Engineer salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 503 565
Rank change year-on-year +108 +62 +184
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 6 5 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.047% 0.021% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.023% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 35
10th Percentile £52,875 - £52,738
25th Percentile £59,063 - £64,044
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £40,000 £70,588
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -43.33% +8.60%
75th Percentile £73,438 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,125 £93,500 £89,852
England median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £67,206
% change year-on-year +43.75% -40.48% +3.39%

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 11,599 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,448 16,662 24,070
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%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in London

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in London

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in London

Quality 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 Quality Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London - 1 £65,000 - 1
Quality Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Quality 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) Test Scripting
4 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (50.00%) QA
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (33.33%) API Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
5 2 (33.33%) Playwright
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Selenium
5 2 (33.33%) Maven
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (16.67%) NeoLoad
6 1 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
6 1 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (16.67%) Azure

Quality 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) NeoLoad
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Reinsurance
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Test Scripting
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (33.33%) API Testing
5 2 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
5 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 1 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (16.67%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes