QA Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Quality Assurance Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Cheshire is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £47,750 - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £60,000 - -
90th Percentile £62,250 - -
North West median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,694 726 1,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 87.79% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 458 604
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,188 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £89,125 £70,813
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Cheshire

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Cheshire

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Cheshire

QA Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Warrington - 5 £47,500 -
Wilmslow - 1 £62,500 -
QA Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, 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 Cheshire region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) QA
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) Software Testing
2 5 (83.33%) API Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (50.00%) Postman
4 3 (50.00%) Playwright
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) SaaS
5 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Usability Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Stress Testing
5 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (33.33%) JIRA
5 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
6 1 (16.67%) .NET
6 1 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (16.67%) Test Management

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (50.00%) Postman
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (16.67%) TestCafe
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) API Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Software Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Stress Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Usability Testing
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker