QA Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 547 502
Rank change year-on-year -18 -45 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 192 206 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.33% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.37% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 134 133 287
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £32,800
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,188 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,750 £72,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
South East +18 63 £45,000 -10.00% 14
Scotland -37 44 £52,500 -25.00% 3
South West -13 33 £55,000 +37.50% 7
North of England +26 17 £47,500 +5.56% 15
Midlands 0 17 £40,000 -24.88% 6
West Midlands +20 12 £40,000 -24.88% 5
Wales +17 11 £70,000 +12.00% 3
North West +7 11 £47,500 +5.56% 10
East of England +6 7 £40,000 -15.79% 4
East Midlands -17 5 £52,500 -2.33% 1
Yorkshire +78 3 £48,750 +57.26% 4
North East 0 3 £40,000 -42.86% 1
QA Engineer
UK

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 192 (100.00%) QA
2 116 (60.42%) Test Automation
3 67 (34.90%) Agile
4 63 (32.81%) Software Testing
5 50 (26.04%) Manufacturing
6 35 (18.23%) Java
6 35 (18.23%) JavaScript
6 35 (18.23%) Manual Testing
6 35 (18.23%) CI/CD
7 32 (16.67%) Cypress.io
8 30 (15.63%) SQL
8 30 (15.63%) Cucumber
9 29 (15.10%) Postman
9 29 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (15.10%) Test Scripting
10 28 (14.58%) BDD
10 28 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (14.58%) Code Quality
11 26 (13.54%) Social Skills
11 26 (13.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (13.54%) Scrum
12 25 (13.02%) Selenium
13 24 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
13 24 (12.50%) JIRA
14 23 (11.98%) Spring
14 23 (11.98%) Electronics
14 23 (11.98%) Python
15 22 (11.46%) Finance
15 22 (11.46%) QA Automation
16 21 (10.94%) Spring Boot

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Simulink
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.94%) Azure
2 17 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (7.81%) AWS
4 12 (6.25%) SaaS
5 9 (4.69%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.52%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.52%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) 5G
1 3 (1.56%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.56%) GSM
1 3 (1.56%) ISDN
1 3 (1.56%) LTE
1 3 (1.56%) PSTN
1 3 (1.56%) UMTS
1 3 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.52%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 32 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 30 (15.63%) Cucumber
3 29 (15.10%) Postman
4 25 (13.02%) Selenium
5 24 (12.50%) JIRA
6 19 (9.90%) Jenkins
6 19 (9.90%) JMeter
7 11 (5.73%) Visual Studio
8 9 (4.69%) Gradle
8 9 (4.69%) Maven
9 8 (4.17%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.60%) Android Studio
11 4 (2.08%) Git
11 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.56%) Appium
12 3 (1.56%) JUnit
12 3 (1.56%) LabVIEW
12 3 (1.56%) Mockito
12 3 (1.56%) SpecFlow
13 2 (1.04%) UI Automator
General
1 50 (26.04%) Manufacturing
2 28 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (13.54%) Social Skills
4 23 (11.98%) Electronics
5 22 (11.46%) Finance
6 20 (10.42%) Games
7 10 (5.21%) Law
7 10 (5.21%) Marketing
8 9 (4.69%) Aviation
9 6 (3.13%) Automotive
10 5 (2.60%) Banking
10 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.08%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.56%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.04%) Agriculture
13 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.04%) Retail
14 1 (0.52%) Military
14 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.98%) Spring
2 21 (10.94%) Spring Boot
3 10 (5.21%) React
4 9 (4.69%) Ext JS
4 9 (4.69%) Playwright
5 8 (4.17%) REST
6 5 (2.60%) Swagger
7 4 (2.08%) .NET
8 3 (1.56%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.56%) Web Services
8 3 (1.56%) WireMock
9 2 (1.04%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.04%) JSON
9 2 (1.04%) Node.js
10 1 (0.52%) Middleware
10 1 (0.52%) Nightwatchjs
10 1 (0.52%) pytest
10 1 (0.52%) WebdriverIO
10 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.69%) Market Risk
2 9 (4.69%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.65%) Video\Live Streaming
4 6 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.56%) Acoustics
5 3 (1.56%) Satnav
6 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.04%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.04%) IoT
6 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.04%) Robotics
6 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.52%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.17%) Android
2 4 (2.08%) Linux
3 3 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.56%) Windows
4 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.04%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (60.42%) Test Automation
2 67 (34.90%) Agile
3 63 (32.81%) Software Testing
4 35 (18.23%) CI/CD
4 35 (18.23%) Manual Testing
5 29 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (15.10%) Test Scripting
6 28 (14.58%) BDD
6 28 (14.58%) Code Quality
7 26 (13.54%) Scrum
8 24 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
9 22 (11.46%) QA Automation
10 21 (10.94%) Product Requirements
10 21 (10.94%) TDD
10 21 (10.94%) Test Strategy
11 20 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (10.42%) DevOps
11 20 (10.42%) Internal Audit
12 19 (9.90%) FMEA
12 19 (9.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.23%) Java
1 35 (18.23%) JavaScript
2 30 (15.63%) SQL
3 23 (11.98%) Python
4 10 (5.21%) C#
5 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.04%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.52%) Bash
7 1 (0.52%) C
7 1 (0.52%) COBOL
7 1 (0.52%) HLASM
7 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.52%) REXX
7 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (9.38%) Degree
2 5 (2.60%) ISTQB
3 4 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) ISEB
4 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.60%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3 (1.56%) Docker
1 3 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.56%) Terraform
2 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 9 (4.69%) TOWER Software
2 7 (3.65%) MuleSoft
3 6 (3.13%) OutSystems
4 3 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.56%) Oracle