Software QA Tester Jobs in Surrey

Software Quality Assurance Tester
South East > Surrey

The median Software Quality Assurance Tester salary in Surrey is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software QA Tester 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 0.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +13.33% -18.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 756 2,306 2,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.46% 91.29% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 569 1,491 1,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £80,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Software QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings that featured Software QA Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Software QA Tester in Surrey

Software QA Tester
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software QA Tester in Surrey.

Salary trend for Software QA Tester in Surrey

Software QA Tester
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software QA Tester within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 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
Guildford - 2 £47,500 -
Software QA Tester
South East

Software QA Tester Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Software QA Tester 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 Surrey region featuring Software QA Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality

Software QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA