QA Engineer Jobs in Milton Keynes

Quality Assurance Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Milton Keynes is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 80 99
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 5 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 0.46% 0.36% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.38% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £52,375 £43,000 -
25th Percentile £54,063 £45,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -13.04% +2.68%
75th Percentile £64,063 £56,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,125 £60,000 -
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £58,750 £46,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +27.03% -19.57% +2.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 1,023 786 944
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 94.81% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 674 541 667
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,954 £27,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,324 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Milton Keynes

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Milton Keynes

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Milton Keynes

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Milton Keynes region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Bluetooth
3 3 (60.00%) GSM
3 3 (60.00%) ISDN
3 3 (60.00%) PSTN
3 3 (60.00%) UMTS
3 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (60.00%) Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (60.00%) LabVIEW
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) LTE
3 3 (60.00%) Coaching
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) 5G
3 3 (60.00%) Acoustics
3 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (60.00%) Satnav
4 2 (40.00%) Postman
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (20.00%) Mobile App

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) 5G
1 3 (60.00%) Bluetooth
1 3 (60.00%) GSM
1 3 (60.00%) ISDN
1 3 (60.00%) LTE
1 3 (60.00%) PSTN
1 3 (60.00%) UMTS
1 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (60.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) LabVIEW
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Appium
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (60.00%) Satnav
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Coaching
3 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) SDET
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform