Senior QA Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer salary in London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 512 579
Rank change year-on-year +116 +67 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 7 5 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.054% 0.021% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.023% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 46
10th Percentile - £61,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,500 - £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -13.33% +15.38%

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 11,673 22,210 32,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.15% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,263 16,626 24,091
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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%

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Engineer in London

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior QA Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (71.43%) Test Scripting
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (42.86%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
4 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
4 2 (28.57%) TestRail
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (28.57%) Appian
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (14.29%) Ansible
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) ISEB

Senior 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 (28.57%) Appian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) TestRail
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
1 5 (71.43%) Test Scripting
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
2 3 (42.86%) Exploratory Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) ISEB
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible