QA Engineer Job Trends in Ludlow

Quality Assurance Engineer
Shropshire > Ludlow

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Ludlow is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Ludlow 25.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 25.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48,250 - -
25th Percentile £49,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £54,375 - -
90th Percentile £54,750 - -
Shropshire median annual salary £30,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Ludlow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Ludlow. 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 Ludlow with a recognized job title 8 0 1
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £50,125 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £37,500
75th Percentile £54,063 - £38,750
90th Percentile £55,000 - -
Shropshire median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% -14.29%

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ludlow

For the 6 months to 28 March 2026, QA Engineer 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 Ludlow region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ludlow 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA