QA Engineer Jobs in Maidstone

Quality Assurance Engineer
Kent > Maidstone

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Maidstone is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Maidstone 3.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.92% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - -
75th Percentile £33,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median annual salary £32,500 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Maidstone

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Maidstone. 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 Maidstone with a recognized job title 51 165 199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.69% 88.24% 65.03%
Number of salaries quoted 42 146 125
10th Percentile £23,050 £21,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £26,563 £29,813 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +11.84% -45.71%
75th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £62,500 £72,500
Kent median annual salary £47,250 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +11.18% -8.60% +3.33%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidstone

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Maidstone

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Maidstone

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Maidstone

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Maidstone

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Maidstone region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Laravel
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Maidstone 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 2 (100.00%) Laravel
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA