QA Engineer Jobs in the North West

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > North West

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the North West is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 276 326
Rank change year-on-year -12 +50 -91
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 15 11 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 9
10th Percentile - £31,250 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66,875 £50,313 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £65,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 10,723 6,524 9,433
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 89.55% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,015 3,992 5,412
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,300 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.94% +0.50% +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the North West

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the North West

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the North West

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester +4 8 £47,500 +5.56%
Cheshire - 6 £55,000 - 1
Cumbria - 1 £35,000 -
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 10 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 North West region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) QA
2 11 (73.33%) Selenium
2 11 (73.33%) Cypress.io
3 10 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (60.00%) Playwright
5 8 (53.33%) Postman
5 8 (53.33%) Agile
6 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
6 5 (33.33%) Android
6 5 (33.33%) Azure
6 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 5 (33.33%) SaaS
6 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (33.33%) Android Studio
6 5 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (33.33%) People Management
6 5 (33.33%) API Testing
6 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (26.67%) QA Automation
7 4 (26.67%) Java
8 3 (20.00%) Python
8 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
8 3 (20.00%) Migration
8 3 (20.00%) BDD
8 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (20.00%) Line Management

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Cypress.io
1 11 (73.33%) Selenium
2 8 (53.33%) Postman
3 5 (33.33%) Android Studio
3 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
5 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.67%) TestCafe
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) API Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) People Management
4 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 4 (26.67%) QA Automation
6 3 (20.00%) BDD
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) Coaching
6 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (20.00%) Line Management
6 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker