QA Tester Jobs in the North East

Quality Assurance Tester
England > North East

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in the North East is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 - 117
Rank change year-on-year - - -24
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.11% - 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £27,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £28,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 East with a recognized job title 1,741 1,010 1,402
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.66% 79.53% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 599 998
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £36,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,672 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +19.18% -8.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,638 £74,100 £71,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured QA Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in the North East

QA Tester
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Tester in the North East.

Salary trend for QA Tester in the North East

QA Tester
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the North East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £55,000 -
QA Tester
England

QA Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, QA Tester 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 East region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks