Senior QA Engineer Jobs

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
UK

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the UK is £54,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 692 894 831
Rank change year-on-year +202 -63 +121
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 19 16 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.016% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.017% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 85
10th Percentile - £42,250 £44,828
25th Percentile £53,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £63,625 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £64,875 £74,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.78% -30.77% +23.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Engineer in the UK

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior QA Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior QA Engineer in the UK

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior QA Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior QA Engineer in the UK

Senior QA Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +164 17 £53,000 -24.29% 55
UK excluding London +201 14 £53,000 +17.78% 39
Work from Home +125 11 £53,000 +3.41% 30
East of England +51 9 £53,000 +24.71% 9
London +120 5 £62,500 -10.71% 29
Midlands +61 2 £56,250 -27.42% 4
East Midlands +40 2 £56,250 -27.42% 3
South East +89 1 £61,500 +36.67% 10
Wales - 1 £60,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

Senior QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 featuring Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) QA
2 18 (94.74%) Test Automation
3 14 (73.68%) Manual Testing
4 13 (68.42%) Selenium
4 13 (68.42%) Agile
4 13 (68.42%) Test Scripting
5 10 (52.63%) Defect Tracking
5 10 (52.63%) Legal
5 10 (52.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (52.63%) Software Testing
5 10 (52.63%) ISTQB
6 9 (47.37%) Law
6 9 (47.37%) JIRA
6 9 (47.37%) Project Management
6 9 (47.37%) Process Improvement
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (21.05%) Exploratory Testing
8 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
8 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 3 (15.79%) SaaS
9 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (15.79%) Defect Management
9 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
10 2 (10.53%) Postman
10 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
10 2 (10.53%) DevOps
10 2 (10.53%) QA Automation
10 2 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
10 2 (10.53%) Jenkins

Senior QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (15.79%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
Development Applications
1 13 (68.42%) Selenium
2 9 (47.37%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Postman
4 1 (5.26%) Appium
4 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.26%) Katalon Studio
General
1 10 (52.63%) Legal
2 9 (47.37%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Test Automation
2 14 (73.68%) Manual Testing
3 13 (68.42%) Agile
3 13 (68.42%) Test Scripting
4 10 (52.63%) Defect Tracking
4 10 (52.63%) Software Testing
4 10 (52.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (47.37%) Process Improvement
5 9 (47.37%) Project Management
6 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (21.05%) Exploratory Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
8 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.79%) Defect Management
9 2 (10.53%) DevOps
9 2 (10.53%) QA Automation
9 2 (10.53%) Regression Testing
9 2 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) C#
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Pega