QA Engineer Jobs in the South East

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > South East

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the South East is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 334 354
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 64 75 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.39% 0.49% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.54% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 42 49 116
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,750 £40,625
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £59,750 £71,000 £61,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,164 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.98% +14.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,515 13,804 18,906
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.69% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,273 8,655 12,709
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the South East

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the South East

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the South East

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hampshire +5 28 £39,000 -22.00% 2
Thames Valley +5 28 £50,000 - 7
Berkshire +29 13 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Oxfordshire -9 11 £40,000 -27.27% 2
Surrey +9 4 £45,000 -37.93% 6
Buckinghamshire -16 4 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Kent 0 2 £50,000 -
West Sussex +28 1 £65,000 +36.84%
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 South East region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) QA
2 28 (43.75%) Manufacturing
3 26 (40.63%) Test Automation
4 21 (32.81%) Internal Audit
4 21 (32.81%) FMEA
4 21 (32.81%) Product Requirements
5 19 (29.69%) Collaborative Working
5 19 (29.69%) Agile
5 19 (29.69%) Electronics
6 13 (20.31%) SQL
7 12 (18.75%) Degree
7 12 (18.75%) Test Scripting
8 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.06%) Postman
9 9 (14.06%) QA Automation
9 9 (14.06%) Selenium
9 9 (14.06%) Scrum
10 8 (12.50%) JIRA
10 8 (12.50%) Manual Testing
10 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
11 7 (10.94%) API Testing
11 7 (10.94%) Software Testing
11 7 (10.94%) Python
12 6 (9.38%) Cucumber
12 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
13 5 (7.81%) Social Skills
13 5 (7.81%) DevOps
13 5 (7.81%) Cypress.io
13 5 (7.81%) Azure
14 4 (6.25%) Scenario Testing

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) Azure
2 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (4.69%) SaaS
3 1 (1.56%) AWS
3 1 (1.56%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) 5G
1 3 (4.69%) Bluetooth
1 3 (4.69%) GSM
1 3 (4.69%) ISDN
1 3 (4.69%) LTE
1 3 (4.69%) PSTN
1 3 (4.69%) UMTS
1 3 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (4.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.56%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Postman
1 9 (14.06%) Selenium
2 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.50%) JIRA
3 6 (9.38%) Cucumber
4 5 (7.81%) Cypress.io
5 4 (6.25%) Git
6 3 (4.69%) LabVIEW
6 3 (4.69%) SpecFlow
7 2 (3.13%) JBehave
7 2 (3.13%) JMeter
7 2 (3.13%) JUnit
7 2 (3.13%) Mockito
7 2 (3.13%) REST Assured
7 2 (3.13%) SoapUI
7 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.56%) TestComplete
General
1 28 (43.75%) Manufacturing
2 19 (29.69%) Electronics
3 5 (7.81%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Games
5 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.13%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.13%) Aviation
6 2 (3.13%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Finance
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) Swagger
2 2 (3.13%) Gherkin
2 2 (3.13%) Playwright
2 2 (3.13%) REST
2 2 (3.13%) Spring
2 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.13%) Web Services
2 2 (3.13%) WireMock
3 1 (1.56%) .NET
3 1 (1.56%) Middleware
3 1 (1.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Acoustics
1 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
1 3 (4.69%) Satnav
2 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.13%) IoT
2 2 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.56%) Life Science
3 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Test Automation
2 21 (32.81%) FMEA
2 21 (32.81%) Internal Audit
2 21 (32.81%) Product Requirements
3 19 (29.69%) Agile
3 19 (29.69%) Collaborative Working
4 12 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.06%) QA Automation
6 9 (14.06%) Scrum
7 8 (12.50%) Manual Testing
8 7 (10.94%) API Testing
8 7 (10.94%) Software Testing
9 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
10 5 (7.81%) DevOps
11 4 (6.25%) Scenario Testing
11 4 (6.25%) Test Strategy
12 3 (4.69%) Coaching
12 3 (4.69%) Collaborative Culture
12 3 (4.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) SQL
2 7 (10.94%) Python
3 4 (6.25%) C#
3 4 (6.25%) Java
4 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) COBOL
5 1 (1.56%) HLASM
5 1 (1.56%) REXX
5 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
1 2 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle
1 1 (1.56%) Spotify