QA Engineer Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in England is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 634 575 467
Rank change year-on-year -59 -108 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 203 363 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.42% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.46% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 155 288 677
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -7.89% +14.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
South East +3 67 £40,000 -20.00% 13
London +1 50 £60,000 - 17
South West -8 40 £45,000 +12.50% 14
North of England +36 21 £45,000 +5.88% 12
North West +7 12 £47,500 +5.56% 6
Midlands -16 12 £40,000 -20.00% 5
East of England -15 10 £40,000 -15.79% 10
West Midlands +2 9 £40,000 -21.95% 4
Yorkshire +66 6 £35,000 +12.90% 5
North East -6 3 £40,000 -42.86% 1
East Midlands -17 3 £45,000 -14.29% 1
QA Engineer
UK

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

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

1 203 (100.00%) QA
2 91 (44.83%) Test Automation
3 66 (32.51%) Agile
4 48 (23.65%) Manufacturing
5 40 (19.70%) API Testing
6 39 (19.21%) Cucumber
6 39 (19.21%) Selenium
7 36 (17.73%) Software Testing
7 36 (17.73%) Postman
8 35 (17.24%) SQL
9 34 (16.75%) CI/CD
10 33 (16.26%) Java
10 33 (16.26%) QA Automation
11 31 (15.27%) Manual Testing
12 30 (14.78%) Cypress.io
13 29 (14.29%) BDD
14 28 (13.79%) Degree
15 27 (13.30%) JIRA
15 27 (13.30%) Social Skills
16 26 (12.81%) Scrum
17 24 (11.82%) Test Scripting
17 24 (11.82%) Test Strategy
18 23 (11.33%) Azure
19 22 (10.84%) Python
19 22 (10.84%) Collaborative Working
20 21 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
20 21 (10.34%) Product Requirements
21 20 (9.85%) Electronics
21 20 (9.85%) DevOps
21 20 (9.85%) Internal Audit

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.99%) Simulink
1 2 (0.99%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.33%) Azure
2 16 (7.88%) AWS
3 15 (7.39%) SaaS
4 11 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.97%) BrowserStack
6 2 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.99%) ClickUp
6 2 (0.99%) GCP
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) 5G
1 3 (1.48%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.48%) GSM
1 3 (1.48%) ISDN
1 3 (1.48%) LTE
1 3 (1.48%) PSTN
1 3 (1.48%) UMTS
1 3 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.48%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.49%) GIS
4 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (19.21%) Cucumber
1 39 (19.21%) Selenium
2 36 (17.73%) Postman
3 30 (14.78%) Cypress.io
4 27 (13.30%) JIRA
5 19 (9.36%) Jenkins
6 14 (6.90%) SpecFlow
7 11 (5.42%) TeamCity
8 10 (4.93%) Appium
9 9 (4.43%) Git
10 7 (3.45%) JUnit
11 5 (2.46%) Android Studio
11 5 (2.46%) JMeter
11 5 (2.46%) REST Assured
11 5 (2.46%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.97%) GitLab
13 3 (1.48%) IntelliJ
13 3 (1.48%) LabVIEW
13 3 (1.48%) Mockito
14 2 (0.99%) TestComplete
General
1 48 (23.65%) Manufacturing
2 27 (13.30%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.85%) Electronics
4 19 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.90%) Finance
6 9 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.94%) Automotive
8 7 (3.45%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.45%) Banking
9 5 (2.46%) Games
9 5 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.97%) Aviation
11 3 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.48%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.48%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.99%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.99%) Legal
12 2 (0.99%) Marketing
12 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.37%) Playwright
2 15 (7.39%) .NET
2 15 (7.39%) REST
3 13 (6.40%) Gherkin
4 11 (5.42%) Spring
5 10 (4.93%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.43%) .NET Framework
7 5 (2.46%) Swagger
8 3 (1.48%) React
8 3 (1.48%) Web Services
8 3 (1.48%) WireMock
9 2 (0.99%) JSON
9 2 (0.99%) PySpark
9 2 (0.99%) XML
10 1 (0.49%) Jest
10 1 (0.49%) Middleware
10 1 (0.49%) Nightwatchjs
10 1 (0.49%) Puppeteer
10 1 (0.49%) Vert.x
10 1 (0.49%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.93%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.96%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.48%) Acoustics
4 3 (1.48%) Satnav
5 2 (0.99%) Client/Server
5 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (0.99%) Hackathon
5 2 (0.99%) Hedge funds
5 2 (0.99%) IoT
5 2 (0.99%) Operational Technology
5 2 (0.99%) Robotics
5 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.49%) Derivative
6 1 (0.49%) Life Science
6 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.90%) Android
2 10 (4.93%) Linux
3 7 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.46%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.97%) Windows
6 3 (1.48%) Debian
7 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.99%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (44.83%) Test Automation
2 66 (32.51%) Agile
3 40 (19.70%) API Testing
4 36 (17.73%) Software Testing
5 34 (16.75%) CI/CD
6 33 (16.26%) QA Automation
7 31 (15.27%) Manual Testing
8 29 (14.29%) BDD
9 26 (12.81%) Scrum
10 24 (11.82%) Test Scripting
10 24 (11.82%) Test Strategy
11 22 (10.84%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (10.34%) Product Requirements
13 20 (9.85%) DevOps
13 20 (9.85%) Internal Audit
14 19 (9.36%) FMEA
15 17 (8.37%) Fintech
16 16 (7.88%) SDET
17 13 (6.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.24%) SQL
2 33 (16.26%) Java
3 22 (10.84%) Python
4 19 (9.36%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.39%) C#
6 5 (2.46%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.99%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.49%) Bash
8 1 (0.49%) C++
8 1 (0.49%) Go
8 1 (0.49%) PHP
8 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (13.79%) Degree
2 9 (4.43%) ISTQB
3 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (1.48%) ISEB
4 3 (1.48%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.48%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.48%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.46%) Docker
2 4 (1.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.48%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.49%) Grafana
2 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.46%) Oracle
2 4 (1.97%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.99%) Databricks
3 2 (0.99%) Splunk
4 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat