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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 644 596 463
Rank change year-on-year -48 -133 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 206 349 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.41% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.45% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 157 279 675
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,250 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.09% +15.00%
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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 2 June 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 2 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
South East -9 67 £40,000 -20.00% 12
London -31 49 £60,000 +2.13% 16
South West -7 40 £47,500 +18.75% 12
North of England +24 24 £45,000 +5.88% 3
North West -10 13 £47,500 +5.56% 2
East of England -14 12 £40,000 -15.79% 13
Midlands -16 11 £40,000 -21.95% 5
West Midlands -12 9 £40,000 -23.81% 4
Yorkshire +50 8 £35,000 +12.90%
North East -11 3 £40,000 -42.86% 1
East Midlands -17 2 £61,250 +16.67% 1
QA Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 England region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 206 (100.00%) QA
2 90 (43.69%) Test Automation
3 64 (31.07%) Agile
4 48 (23.30%) Manufacturing
5 41 (19.90%) Selenium
6 40 (19.42%) API Testing
7 39 (18.93%) Cucumber
8 37 (17.96%) Postman
9 36 (17.48%) Software Testing
10 35 (16.99%) SQL
10 35 (16.99%) CI/CD
11 34 (16.50%) Java
12 33 (16.02%) QA Automation
13 31 (15.05%) Cypress.io
14 30 (14.56%) Manual Testing
15 29 (14.08%) BDD
16 28 (13.59%) Degree
17 27 (13.11%) Social Skills
18 26 (12.62%) Scrum
18 26 (12.62%) JIRA
19 24 (11.65%) Test Strategy
19 24 (11.65%) Test Scripting
20 23 (11.17%) Azure
21 22 (10.68%) Python
22 20 (9.71%) JavaScript
22 20 (9.71%) DevOps
22 20 (9.71%) Collaborative Working
22 20 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
23 19 (9.22%) Product Requirements
23 19 (9.22%) Jenkins

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 (0.97%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.97%) Simulink
1 2 (0.97%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.17%) Azure
2 16 (7.77%) AWS
3 14 (6.80%) SaaS
4 11 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.94%) BrowserStack
6 2 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.97%) ClickUp
6 2 (0.97%) GCP
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) 5G
1 3 (1.46%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.46%) GSM
1 3 (1.46%) ISDN
1 3 (1.46%) LTE
1 3 (1.46%) PSTN
1 3 (1.46%) UMTS
1 3 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.49%) GIS
3 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (19.90%) Selenium
2 39 (18.93%) Cucumber
3 37 (17.96%) Postman
4 31 (15.05%) Cypress.io
5 26 (12.62%) JIRA
6 19 (9.22%) Jenkins
7 16 (7.77%) SpecFlow
8 12 (5.83%) Appium
9 11 (5.34%) TeamCity
10 9 (4.37%) Git
11 7 (3.40%) JUnit
12 5 (2.43%) Android Studio
12 5 (2.43%) JMeter
12 5 (2.43%) REST Assured
12 5 (2.43%) Visual Studio
13 4 (1.94%) GitLab
14 3 (1.46%) IntelliJ
14 3 (1.46%) LabVIEW
14 3 (1.46%) Mockito
15 2 (0.97%) TestComplete
General
1 48 (23.30%) Manufacturing
2 27 (13.11%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.22%) Electronics
4 14 (6.80%) Finance
5 9 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.40%) Aerospace
6 7 (3.40%) Automotive
6 7 (3.40%) Banking
7 6 (2.91%) Games
8 5 (2.43%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.43%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.94%) Aviation
10 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.97%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.97%) Legal
11 2 (0.97%) Marketing
11 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.74%) Playwright
2 16 (7.77%) .NET
3 15 (7.28%) REST
4 13 (6.31%) Gherkin
5 11 (5.34%) Spring
6 10 (4.85%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.37%) .NET Framework
8 5 (2.43%) Swagger
9 3 (1.46%) React
9 3 (1.46%) Web Services
9 3 (1.46%) WireMock
10 2 (0.97%) JSON
10 2 (0.97%) PySpark
10 2 (0.97%) XML
11 1 (0.49%) Jest
11 1 (0.49%) Nightwatchjs
11 1 (0.49%) Node.js
11 1 (0.49%) Puppeteer
11 1 (0.49%) Vert.x
11 1 (0.49%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.85%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.46%) Acoustics
4 3 (1.46%) Satnav
5 2 (0.97%) Client/Server
5 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (0.97%) Hackathon
5 2 (0.97%) Hedge funds
5 2 (0.97%) IoT
5 2 (0.97%) Operational Technology
5 2 (0.97%) Robotics
5 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.49%) Derivative
6 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.49%) Replication
6 1 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.28%) Android
2 9 (4.37%) Linux
3 8 (3.88%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.94%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.94%) Windows
5 2 (0.97%) Debian
5 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.97%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (43.69%) Test Automation
2 64 (31.07%) Agile
3 40 (19.42%) API Testing
4 36 (17.48%) Software Testing
5 35 (16.99%) CI/CD
6 33 (16.02%) QA Automation
7 30 (14.56%) Manual Testing
8 29 (14.08%) BDD
9 26 (12.62%) Scrum
10 24 (11.65%) Test Scripting
10 24 (11.65%) Test Strategy
11 20 (9.71%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (9.71%) DevOps
11 20 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (9.22%) Product Requirements
13 18 (8.74%) Internal Audit
14 17 (8.25%) Fintech
14 17 (8.25%) FMEA
14 17 (8.25%) SDET
15 13 (6.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.99%) SQL
2 34 (16.50%) Java
3 22 (10.68%) Python
4 20 (9.71%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.25%) C#
6 5 (2.43%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.97%) 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 (13.59%) Degree
2 9 (4.37%) ISTQB
3 4 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (1.46%) ISEB
5 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.97%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (3.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.46%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.46%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.46%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.49%) Grafana
2 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (1.94%) Microsoft
1 4 (1.94%) Oracle
2 2 (0.97%) Databricks
2 2 (0.97%) Splunk
3 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.49%) Red Hat