QA Tester Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in England is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 836 819 1019
Rank change year-on-year -17 +200 -222
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 29 82 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.097% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 20 79 110
10th Percentile £36,250 £22,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,188 £35,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,000 £81,375
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%

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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £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 Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Tester in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
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 Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands -27 9 £40,000 +45.45%
London +96 8 £48,750 -22.00% 2
North of England +30 6 £40,000 -20.00% 3
North West -2 6 £40,000 -33.33% 3
East Midlands -17 5 - -
West Midlands -29 4 £40,000 +45.45%
South East -20 2 £42,500 -12.82% 1
South West -30 2 £40,000 -5.88%
East of England -2 1 - -
QA Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 18 (62.07%) Test Automation
3 15 (51.72%) Agile
4 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (41.38%) Selenium
6 10 (34.48%) Software Testing
6 10 (34.48%) Scrum
7 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (31.03%) Cucumber
7 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
8 8 (27.59%) BDD
8 8 (27.59%) DevOps
8 8 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (27.59%) Project Management
9 7 (24.14%) Web Development
9 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
9 7 (24.14%) B2B
9 7 (24.14%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (20.69%) AWS
10 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
10 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
11 5 (17.24%) Backlog Refinement
11 5 (17.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 5 (17.24%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (17.24%) Retail
11 5 (17.24%) Release Management
11 5 (17.24%) JIRA
11 5 (17.24%) Test Management
11 5 (17.24%) SQL
11 5 (17.24%) B2C

QA Tester 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 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) SaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
1 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Selenium
2 9 (31.03%) Cucumber
3 5 (17.24%) Cypress.io
3 5 (17.24%) JIRA
4 4 (13.79%) JMeter
4 4 (13.79%) SpecFlow
5 3 (10.34%) Appium
5 3 (10.34%) TeamCity
5 3 (10.34%) WebDriver
6 2 (6.90%) Git
7 1 (3.45%) GitLab
7 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
7 1 (3.45%) JUnit
7 1 (3.45%) Postman
7 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Retail
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) RESTful
2 4 (13.79%) Spring
2 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.34%) CSS
3 3 (10.34%) Gherkin
3 3 (10.34%) HTML
3 3 (10.34%) Playwright
3 3 (10.34%) SOAP
4 2 (6.90%) React
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.45%) Jest
5 1 (3.45%) jQuery
5 1 (3.45%) PySpark
5 1 (3.45%) Swagger
5 1 (3.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Test Automation
2 15 (51.72%) Agile
3 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (34.48%) Scrum
4 10 (34.48%) Software Testing
5 8 (27.59%) BDD
5 8 (27.59%) DevOps
5 8 (27.59%) Project Management
5 8 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (24.14%) B2B
6 7 (24.14%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (24.14%) Web Development
7 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
8 5 (17.24%) B2C
8 5 (17.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (17.24%) Backlog Refinement
8 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
8 5 (17.24%) Release Management
8 5 (17.24%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (17.24%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.24%) C#
2 5 (17.24%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Ruby
4 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle