Quality Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 641 759
Rank change year-on-year +65 +118 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 166 123 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 95 31 60
10th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £36,527
25th Percentile £37,625 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £47,875 £72,500 £62,750
90th Percentile £56,000 £87,419 £70,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £66,911 £59,500
% change year-on-year -40.22% +12.46% +2.59%

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 65,737 55,972 67,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.35% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 46,859 31,643 43,312
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,738 £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 £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality 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 Quality Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +48 75 £40,000 -23.81% 37
South West +17 25 £37,500 -25.00% 24
Midlands +11 24 £45,000 - 23
Wales - 23 £45,000 - 8
West Midlands +28 22 £42,500 - 18
North of England +39 8 £40,000 -30.43% 38
Scotland -80 8 £41,250 -6.25% 13
North West +18 5 £45,000 - 20
East of England +29 3 £40,000 - 9
East Midlands -14 2 £45,000 - 5
North East - 2 £39,250 - 10
Yorkshire +77 1 - - 12
Quality Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Quality 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 99 (59.64%) QA
2 92 (55.42%) Manufacturing
3 48 (28.92%) Electronics
4 46 (27.71%) Internal Audit
5 43 (25.90%) Product Requirements
6 42 (25.30%) FMEA
7 37 (22.29%) Collaborative Working
8 21 (12.65%) Automotive
9 16 (9.64%) Test Automation
9 16 (9.64%) ISO 9001
10 12 (7.23%) QMS
11 10 (6.02%) Cost Reduction
12 9 (5.42%) Degree
13 8 (4.82%) Agile
13 8 (4.82%) Software Testing
13 8 (4.82%) Aerospace
13 8 (4.82%) ISO 14001
13 8 (4.82%) Defect Management
13 8 (4.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (4.82%) Code Quality
14 7 (4.22%) CI/CD
14 7 (4.22%) Postman
14 7 (4.22%) DevOps
14 7 (4.22%) Azure
14 7 (4.22%) JMeter
14 7 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (4.22%) ETL
15 6 (3.61%) Visual Studio
15 6 (3.61%) Change Management
15 6 (3.61%) Quality Management

Quality 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:

Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Simulink
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.22%) Azure
2 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) 5G
1 3 (1.81%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.81%) GSM
1 3 (1.81%) ISDN
1 3 (1.81%) LTE
1 3 (1.81%) PSTN
1 3 (1.81%) UMTS
1 3 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (4.22%) JMeter
1 7 (4.22%) Postman
2 6 (3.61%) SoapUI
2 6 (3.61%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.81%) LabVIEW
3 3 (1.81%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.81%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.60%) MSTest
4 1 (0.60%) Newman
4 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.60%) Selenium
4 1 (0.60%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 92 (55.42%) Manufacturing
2 48 (28.92%) Electronics
3 21 (12.65%) Automotive
4 8 (4.82%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.61%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.81%) Aviation
6 3 (1.81%) Finance
6 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.81%) Legal
7 2 (1.20%) Games
7 2 (1.20%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.60%) pytest
1 1 (0.60%) Sass
1 1 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (3.61%) Low-Code
2 3 (1.81%) Acoustics
2 3 (1.81%) Robotics
2 3 (1.81%) Satnav
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (27.71%) Internal Audit
2 43 (25.90%) Product Requirements
3 42 (25.30%) FMEA
4 37 (22.29%) Collaborative Working
5 16 (9.64%) Test Automation
6 12 (7.23%) QMS
7 10 (6.02%) Cost Reduction
8 8 (4.82%) Agile
8 8 (4.82%) Code Quality
8 8 (4.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (4.82%) Defect Management
8 8 (4.82%) Software Testing
9 7 (4.22%) CI/CD
9 7 (4.22%) DevOps
9 7 (4.22%) ETL
10 6 (3.61%) Analytics
10 6 (3.61%) Change Management
10 6 (3.61%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (3.61%) Quality Management
10 6 (3.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.41%) Python
1 4 (2.41%) SQL
2 3 (1.81%) MATLAB
3 2 (1.20%) C#
4 1 (0.60%) Bash
4 1 (0.60%) C
4 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (5.42%) Degree
2 4 (2.41%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (0.60%) HNC
3 1 (0.60%) HND
3 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.60%) NVQ Level 4
3 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (59.64%) QA
2 16 (9.64%) ISO 9001
3 8 (4.82%) ISO 14001
4 3 (1.81%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.20%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.60%) COSHH
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) GMP
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (0.60%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (3.61%) MuleSoft
1 6 (3.61%) OutSystems
2 3 (1.81%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.60%) Denodo
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle
3 1 (0.60%) Talend
148 Quality Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London