Senior QA Tester Job Trends in London

Senior Quality Assurance Tester
England > London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Tester salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Tester 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.009% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £82,500 - £46,250
% change year-on-year - - -26.00%

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 19,532 11,040 22,930
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 90.26% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,446 6,934 17,034
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,400 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +9.52% -12.98%

Senior QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior QA Tester' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior QA Tester job vacancy trend in London

Senior QA Tester
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior QA Tester job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior QA Tester job vacancies in London

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2026, Senior QA Tester 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 Senior QA Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
1 2 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Senior QA Tester 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) QA