QC Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Quality Control Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Control Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 - 673
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QC Engineer 1 0 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% - 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% - 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £39,000
75th Percentile £43,750 - £39,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £42,500 - £39,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 48,400 25,371 55,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 90.44% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 30,652 14,216 41,990
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,983 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% +9.97% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

QC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'QC Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

QC Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

QC Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for QC Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for QC Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

QC 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 QC Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
Scotland - 1 £42,500 -
QC Engineer
UK

QC Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 March 2026, QC Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring QC Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

QC Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python