Senior QA Engineer Job Trends in Shropshire

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Shropshire is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 421 86 235
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.68% 95.56% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 258 70 167
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56,875 £62,500 £59,375
90th Percentile £71,125 £75,000 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Senior QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior QA Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior QA Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire

Senior QA Engineer
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior QA Engineer within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 28 March 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
Telford - 1 £50,000 -
Senior QA Engineer
West Midlands

Senior QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 28 March 2026, Senior 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 Shropshire region featuring Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics

Senior QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode