QA Engineer Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Quality Assurance Engineer
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Nottinghamshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 January 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 69 47
Rank change year-on-year +17 -22 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.16% 0.93% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.96% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £51,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -16.28%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £57,188
90th Percentile - £67,500 £62,500
East Midlands median annual salary £46,250 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -22.92% +33.33% -16.28%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Nottinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Nottinghamshire. 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 Nottinghamshire with a recognized job title 582 832 382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 96.74% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 420 306 323
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,630 £79,522 £73,750
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -2.91%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Nottinghamshire.

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Nottinghamshire

QA Engineer
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Nottingham +5 1 £60,000 -
QA Engineer
East Midlands

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire

For the 6 months to 3 January 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 Nottinghamshire region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA