QA Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 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 728 682 778
Rank change year-on-year -46 +96 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 27 69 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.11% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.12% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 19 66 41
10th Percentile £35,000 £22,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £33,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £49,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +30.67% -2.60%
75th Percentile £43,750 £60,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £48,500 £65,000 £52,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%

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 Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Tester
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for QA Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Tester
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 Tester 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
Midlands -12 10 £40,000 -8.05% 1
North of England +39 8 £40,000 -20.00% 2
North West +5 6 £37,500 -25.00% 2
West Midlands +7 5 £40,000 -23.81% 1
East Midlands -16 5 - -
South East +14 3 £43,750 -12.50% 1
Wales - 3 £42,500 -
South West -27 2 £40,000 -11.11% 3
North East - 2 £55,000 -
Scotland -60 1 £30,000 -25.00%
QA Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) QA
2 15 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 15 (55.56%) Agile
3 12 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 12 (44.44%) Cucumber
4 10 (37.04%) BDD
4 10 (37.04%) Java
4 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 8 (29.63%) Non-Functional Testing
6 8 (29.63%) Fintech
6 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
6 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
6 8 (29.63%) Scrum
7 7 (25.93%) Project Management
7 7 (25.93%) B2B
7 7 (25.93%) AWS
7 7 (25.93%) Selenium
7 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
8 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (22.22%) Web Development
8 6 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (22.22%) Finance
8 6 (22.22%) Spring
9 5 (18.52%) Retail
9 5 (18.52%) TDD
9 5 (18.52%) B2C
9 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
9 5 (18.52%) Release Management

QA Tester 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) SaaS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Cucumber
2 7 (25.93%) Selenium
3 4 (14.81%) Git
4 3 (11.11%) JIRA
5 2 (7.41%) GitLab
5 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (7.41%) JMeter
5 2 (7.41%) SpecFlow
5 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
5 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.70%) Appium
6 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.70%) Postman
6 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Finance
4 5 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (18.52%) Retail
5 3 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Games
6 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Spring
1 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.41%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.70%) Playwright
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
1 15 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 12 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 10 (37.04%) BDD
3 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 8 (29.63%) Fintech
4 8 (29.63%) Non-Functional Testing
4 8 (29.63%) Scrum
5 7 (25.93%) B2B
5 7 (25.93%) Project Management
6 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (22.22%) Web Development
7 5 (18.52%) Agile Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (18.52%) Backlog Refinement
7 5 (18.52%) Functional Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (18.52%) Test Strategy
7 5 (18.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
5 1 (3.70%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks