Senior QA Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 764 672
Rank change year-on-year +195 -92 +127
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 13 7 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.009% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.010% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 19
10th Percentile - £41,625 £44,500
25th Percentile - £42,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -30.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £54,438 £55,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £62,125 £71,125 £80,250
UK median annual salary £53,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.29% - +12.00%

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 35,770 72,403 50,277
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 95.00% 88.94%
Number of salaries quoted 18,103 50,955 29,583
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior QA 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 Senior QA Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
East of England +56 9 £53,000 +24.71% 6
South East +92 1 £61,500 +36.67% 4
Midlands +61 1 £57,500 -25.81% 2
East Midlands +36 1 £57,500 -25.81% 2
Wales - 1 £60,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Senior QA Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 2025, Senior QA 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 Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
3 11 (84.62%) Manual Testing
4 10 (76.92%) Selenium
4 10 (76.92%) User Acceptance Testing
4 10 (76.92%) Test Scripting
4 10 (76.92%) Defect Tracking
5 9 (69.23%) Process Improvement
5 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
5 9 (69.23%) ISTQB
5 9 (69.23%) JIRA
5 9 (69.23%) Project Management
5 9 (69.23%) Law
5 9 (69.23%) Legal
6 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Azure
6 2 (15.38%) SaaS
6 2 (15.38%) QA Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (7.69%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (7.69%) Postman
7 1 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
7 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership

Senior QA 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 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Selenium
2 9 (69.23%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 9 (69.23%) Law
1 9 (69.23%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
3 11 (84.62%) Manual Testing
4 10 (76.92%) Defect Tracking
4 10 (76.92%) Test Scripting
4 10 (76.92%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (69.23%) Process Improvement
5 9 (69.23%) Project Management
5 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) QA Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
7 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Exploratory Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
1 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Pega