Software QA Engineer Jobs in the South East

Software Quality Assurance Engineer
England > South East

The median Software Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the South East is £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 376 481
Rank change year-on-year -19 +105 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Software QA Engineer 2 22 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.012% 0.16% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.17% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £39,625 - -
25th Percentile £44,688 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £42,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £62,188 £43,750 £51,563
90th Percentile £66,875 - £56,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +5.26%

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 16,296 12,780 19,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.25% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11,638 8,092 12,422
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Software QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software QA Engineer in the South East

Software QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software QA Engineer in the South East

Software QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software QA Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software QA Engineer in the South East

Software 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 Software QA Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
West Sussex +15 1 £70,000 -
Thames Valley +7 1 £37,500 -11.76% 1
Oxfordshire -10 1 £37,500 -
Software QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, Software 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 Software QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Couchbase

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Biomedicine
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk