QA Engineer Job Trends in Telford

Quality Assurance Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Telford is £29,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Telford 2.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.19% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £26,100 - -
25th Percentile £27,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 - -
75th Percentile £46,625 - -
90th Percentile £56,900 - -
Shropshire median annual salary £29,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 183 59 105
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.34% 95.16% 88.24%
Number of salaries quoted 130 47 81
10th Percentile £26,000 £35,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -21.74%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Shropshire median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -12.63% +2.15% -11.43%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Telford

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Telford over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Telford

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

For the 6 months to 19 March 2026, 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 Telford region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CAPA
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CAPA
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Veracode