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 £47,400 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 758 663
Rank change year-on-year +181 -95 +155
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 5 13 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.018% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.019% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 31
10th Percentile - - £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,400 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.40% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £62,613 £43,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,995 £47,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £58,650 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +56.40% -25.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram 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 22 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
South East +85 1 £61,500 +58.71% 19
Midlands +55 1 £35,000 -17.65% 21
East Midlands +29 1 £35,000 - 12
Yorkshire - 1 £59,800 - 7
South West - 1 £35,000 - 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 £59,800 - 17
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 22 May 2025, 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 5 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) API Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Postman
2 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Confluence
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cordova
1 1 (20.00%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) API Testing
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CyberSource