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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 557 520
Rank change year-on-year -15 -37 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 191 195 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.32% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.36% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 134 125 281
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £56,188 £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 66,781 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,253 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 7 May 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 7 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
South East +14 62 £40,000 -20.00% 12
Scotland -35 45 £52,500 -25.00% 4
South West -21 33 £55,000 +37.50% 11
Midlands -4 17 £40,000 -25.93% 8
North of England +27 16 £47,500 +11.76% 14
West Midlands +10 12 £40,000 -24.88% 7
Wales +21 11 £70,000 +12.00% 2
North West +13 10 £47,500 +5.56% 7
East of England 0 7 £40,000 -13.51% 6
East Midlands -14 5 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Yorkshire +65 3 £48,750 +57.26% 5
North East -3 3 £40,000 -42.86% 2
QA Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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.

1 191 (100.00%) QA
2 114 (59.69%) Test Automation
3 66 (34.55%) Agile
4 62 (32.46%) Software Testing
5 51 (26.70%) Manufacturing
6 35 (18.32%) Manual Testing
7 34 (17.80%) CI/CD
8 33 (17.28%) Java
9 32 (16.75%) JavaScript
10 30 (15.71%) SQL
10 30 (15.71%) Cucumber
11 29 (15.18%) Cypress.io
12 28 (14.66%) Test Scripting
12 28 (14.66%) Code Quality
12 28 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (14.14%) Postman
13 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
13 27 (14.14%) BDD
14 26 (13.61%) Scrum
14 26 (13.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (12.57%) Collaborative Working
15 24 (12.57%) Selenium
16 23 (12.04%) JIRA
16 23 (12.04%) Spring
16 23 (12.04%) Electronics
16 23 (12.04%) Social Skills
17 22 (11.52%) Finance
17 22 (11.52%) Python
18 21 (10.99%) Azure
18 21 (10.99%) Product Requirements

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 (1.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Simulink
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.99%) Azure
2 17 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (7.85%) AWS
4 13 (6.81%) SaaS
5 9 (4.71%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.52%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) 5G
1 3 (1.57%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.57%) GSM
1 3 (1.57%) ISDN
1 3 (1.57%) LTE
1 3 (1.57%) PSTN
1 3 (1.57%) UMTS
1 3 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (15.71%) Cucumber
2 29 (15.18%) Cypress.io
3 27 (14.14%) Postman
4 24 (12.57%) Selenium
5 23 (12.04%) JIRA
6 18 (9.42%) Jenkins
6 18 (9.42%) JMeter
7 11 (5.76%) Visual Studio
8 9 (4.71%) Gradle
8 9 (4.71%) Maven
9 6 (3.14%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.62%) Android Studio
11 4 (2.09%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.57%) Appium
12 3 (1.57%) Git
12 3 (1.57%) JUnit
12 3 (1.57%) LabVIEW
12 3 (1.57%) Mockito
12 3 (1.57%) SpecFlow
13 2 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
General
1 51 (26.70%) Manufacturing
2 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (12.04%) Electronics
4 23 (12.04%) Social Skills
5 22 (11.52%) Finance
6 20 (10.47%) Games
7 10 (5.24%) Law
7 10 (5.24%) Marketing
8 8 (4.19%) Aviation
9 6 (3.14%) Automotive
10 5 (2.62%) Banking
10 5 (2.62%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.57%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.05%) Agriculture
13 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.05%) Retail
14 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.04%) Spring
2 21 (10.99%) Spring Boot
3 10 (5.24%) React
4 9 (4.71%) Ext JS
4 9 (4.71%) Playwright
5 6 (3.14%) REST
6 5 (2.62%) Swagger
7 4 (2.09%) .NET
8 3 (1.57%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.57%) Web Services
8 3 (1.57%) WireMock
9 2 (1.05%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.05%) JSON
9 2 (1.05%) 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 16 (8.38%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.71%) Market Risk
2 9 (4.71%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.66%) Video\Live Streaming
4 6 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.14%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.57%) Acoustics
5 3 (1.57%) Satnav
6 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.05%) IoT
6 2 (1.05%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.05%) Robotics
6 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.52%) Life Science
7 1 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Android
2 3 (1.57%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.57%) Linux
2 3 (1.57%) Windows
3 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.05%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (59.69%) Test Automation
2 66 (34.55%) Agile
3 62 (32.46%) Software Testing
4 35 (18.32%) Manual Testing
5 34 (17.80%) CI/CD
6 28 (14.66%) Code Quality
6 28 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (14.66%) Test Scripting
7 27 (14.14%) BDD
8 26 (13.61%) Scrum
9 24 (12.57%) Collaborative Working
10 21 (10.99%) Product Requirements
11 20 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (10.47%) DevOps
11 20 (10.47%) Internal Audit
11 20 (10.47%) QA Automation
11 20 (10.47%) TDD
11 20 (10.47%) Test Strategy
12 19 (9.95%) FMEA
12 19 (9.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.28%) Java
2 32 (16.75%) JavaScript
3 30 (15.71%) SQL
4 22 (11.52%) Python
5 9 (4.71%) C#
6 3 (1.57%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.52%) Bash
8 1 (0.52%) C
8 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) Degree
2 4 (2.09%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.57%) 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
1 191 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (3.66%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.62%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3 (1.57%) Docker
1 3 (1.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.57%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 9 (4.71%) TOWER Software
2 7 (3.66%) MuleSoft
3 6 (3.14%) OutSystems
4 3 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.57%) Oracle