Quality Engineer Job Trends in Wolverhampton

Quality Engineer
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The median Quality Engineer salary in Wolverhampton is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wolverhampton 1.90% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 - £45,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wolverhampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wolverhampton. 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 Wolverhampton with a recognized job title 204 56 111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.68% 82.35% 99.11%
Number of salaries quoted 100 30 43
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,313 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £118,500 £130,446
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wolverhampton

For the 6 months to 29 September 2026, Quality 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 Wolverhampton region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) Gatling
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) Zephyr

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wolverhampton 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 4 (100.00%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) Gatling
1 4 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility