Senior Quality Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Quality Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Quality Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 - 509
Rank change year-on-year - - +305
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Quality Engineer 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.042% - 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% - 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% -9.43% -5.36%

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 10,961 18,254 21,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 95.40% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,151 11,735 17,915
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Quality Engineer in London

Senior Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Quality Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Quality Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior 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 Senior Quality Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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 £80,000 -
Senior Quality Engineer
England

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

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

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Defect Management
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Law
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) QA
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (60.00%) System Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Management
3 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Adobe
3 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Electronics
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Maven
3 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Datadog
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (60.00%) Charles Proxy
1 3 (60.00%) Fiddler
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Maven
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) TestNG
1 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (60.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (20.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 4 (80.00%) Law
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (60.00%) W3C
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Defect Management
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Digital Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Adobe
1 3 (60.00%) Tealium
2 1 (20.00%) Pega