QA Engineer Jobs in Suffolk

Quality Assurance Engineer
East of England > Suffolk

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Suffolk is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 0.21% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 - -
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +32.50% -15.79% -9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 441 465 220
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 96.07% 83.02%
Number of salaries quoted 263 300 110
10th Percentile £27,250 £24,725 £24,725
25th Percentile £36,250 £27,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,100 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.25% - -1.12%
75th Percentile £66,253 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £66,340 £61,250 £77,625
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Suffolk

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in Suffolk.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Suffolk

QA Engineer
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. 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
Ipswich - 1 £53,000 - 1
QA Engineer
East of England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, 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 Suffolk region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking

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

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA