Quality Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Quality Engineer
England > North of England

The median Quality Engineer salary in the North of England is £48,507 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 378 415
Rank change year-on-year +49 +37 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 7 10 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% 0.057% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.060% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 15
10th Percentile - £35,800 -
25th Percentile £47,231 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £40,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.27% -30.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £49,784 £45,000 £87,419
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £67,206
% change year-on-year +43.75% -40.48% +3.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,578 16,586 15,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 94.87% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 12,834 8,216
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,265 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,100 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the North of England

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in the North of England

Quality Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Yorkshire +81 7 £48,507 - 4
Quality Engineer
England

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Banking
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (85.71%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (85.71%) Confluence
2 6 (85.71%) Agile Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 6 (85.71%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
3 1 (14.29%) Market Risk
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) TestNG
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
2 6 (85.71%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) Spinnaker
3 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 7 (100.00%) Banking
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Agile Testing
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 6 (85.71%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Basel III
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform