QA Engineer Job Trends in Merseyside

Quality Assurance Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Merseyside is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.37% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 1,253 525 795
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 90.99% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 807 245 543
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,398
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Merseyside

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Merseyside

QA Engineer
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Liverpool - 5 £47,500 - 3
QA Engineer
North West

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 13 September 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 Merseyside region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) TestFlight

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) BrowserStack
2 2 (40.00%) TestFlight
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 5 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft