QA Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 758 682 835
Rank change year-on-year -76 +153 -193
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 13 79 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.13% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.14% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 26
10th Percentile - £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £54,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +16.76% +15.63%
75th Percentile £43,750 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £47,500 £75,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £38,750 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.19% -4.55% +37.50%

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 66,883 54,717 68,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.25% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,333 31,108 43,002
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 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Test 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 Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 -10 8 £38,750 -42.59% 2
Midlands +13 3 £42,500 -21.30%
West Midlands +26 2 £42,500 -21.30%
East of England +7 2 £37,500 -40.00%
East Midlands -15 1 £35,000 -36.36%
QA Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, QA Test 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
3 7 (53.85%) Software Testing
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (38.46%) Degree
5 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
6 4 (30.77%) Selenium
6 4 (30.77%) Python
6 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
7 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (23.08%) SaaS
7 3 (23.08%) Biomedicine
7 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
7 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
8 2 (15.38%) QMS
8 2 (15.38%) Android
8 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
8 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (15.38%) JIRA
8 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 2 (15.38%) Use Case
8 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
8 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
8 2 (15.38%) Web Development
8 2 (15.38%) Automotive
8 2 (15.38%) Games
8 2 (15.38%) Retail
8 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce

QA Test 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Appium
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 2 (15.38%) JBehave
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
2 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
2 2 (15.38%) UI Automator
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Automotive
2 2 (15.38%) Games
2 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Android
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
1 2 (15.38%) Mac OS X
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Software Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
5 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
6 3 (23.08%) Biomedicine
6 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
7 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Product Requirements
7 2 (15.38%) QMS
7 2 (15.38%) Quality Management
7 2 (15.38%) Use Case
7 2 (15.38%) Web Development
7 2 (15.38%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA