QA Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 237 250
Rank change year-on-year +48 +13 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 12 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.069% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.17% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 13
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £42,813 £57,000
90th Percentile £57,250 £43,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% -8.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,926 6,958 5,666
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 94.26% 90.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 5,214 3,238
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the West Midlands

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the West Midlands

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Solihull - 2 £47,500 -
Birmingham +39 1 £57,500 +43.75% 2
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 West Midlands region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA