QA Engineer Jobs in the South East

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > South East

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the South East is £40,000 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 330 321 351
Rank change year-on-year -9 +30 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 67 60 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.45% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.50% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 50 41 150
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,438 12,004 20,367
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.70% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,320 7,828 12,341
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the South East

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the South East

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the South East

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the South East 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
Thames Valley -19 30 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Hampshire -8 29 £39,000 -22.00% 5
Oxfordshire -13 14 £40,000 -30.43% 2
Berkshire +23 10 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Buckinghamshire -22 6 £58,750 +27.03% 2
Surrey -23 4 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Kent -11 2 £50,000 - 1
West Sussex +13 1 £70,000 +47.37%
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (100.00%) QA
2 27 (40.30%) Test Automation
3 22 (32.84%) Manufacturing
4 18 (26.87%) Agile
5 15 (22.39%) Internal Audit
5 15 (22.39%) Collaborative Working
5 15 (22.39%) FMEA
5 15 (22.39%) Product Requirements
6 13 (19.40%) Degree
6 13 (19.40%) Electronics
6 13 (19.40%) SQL
6 13 (19.40%) Test Scripting
7 11 (16.42%) Selenium
8 9 (13.43%) Software Testing
8 9 (13.43%) Jenkins
9 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.45%) Postman
10 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
10 7 (10.45%) Scrum
10 7 (10.45%) JIRA
10 7 (10.45%) QA Automation
10 7 (10.45%) DevOps
10 7 (10.45%) Manual Testing
10 7 (10.45%) Cucumber
11 6 (8.96%) Azure
11 6 (8.96%) API Testing
11 6 (8.96%) Aerospace
12 5 (7.46%) Python
12 5 (7.46%) Social Skills
13 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.49%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.96%) Azure
2 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.48%) SaaS
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) 5G
1 3 (4.48%) Bluetooth
1 3 (4.48%) GSM
1 3 (4.48%) ISDN
1 3 (4.48%) LTE
1 3 (4.48%) PSTN
1 3 (4.48%) UMTS
1 3 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (4.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (1.49%) Couchbase
1 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Selenium
2 9 (13.43%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.45%) Cucumber
3 7 (10.45%) JIRA
3 7 (10.45%) Postman
4 4 (5.97%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.97%) Git
5 3 (4.48%) JMeter
5 3 (4.48%) JUnit
5 3 (4.48%) LabVIEW
5 3 (4.48%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.99%) JBehave
6 2 (2.99%) Mockito
6 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.49%) Appium
7 1 (1.49%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.49%) TestComplete
7 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (32.84%) Manufacturing
2 13 (19.40%) Electronics
3 6 (8.96%) Aerospace
4 5 (7.46%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Games
5 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.99%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.99%) Aviation
7 2 (2.99%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Retail
8 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Finance
8 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Playwright
1 3 (4.48%) Spring
1 3 (4.48%) Spring Boot
1 3 (4.48%) Swagger
2 2 (2.99%) Gherkin
2 2 (2.99%) Web Services
2 2 (2.99%) WireMock
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) Kafka
3 1 (1.49%) Middleware
3 1 (1.49%) React
3 1 (1.49%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Acoustics
1 3 (4.48%) Satnav
1 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.99%) IoT
2 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.49%) Life Science
3 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.49%) SCADA
3 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Test Automation
2 18 (26.87%) Agile
3 15 (22.39%) Collaborative Working
3 15 (22.39%) FMEA
3 15 (22.39%) Internal Audit
3 15 (22.39%) Product Requirements
4 13 (19.40%) Test Scripting
5 9 (13.43%) Software Testing
6 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.45%) DevOps
7 7 (10.45%) Manual Testing
7 7 (10.45%) QA Automation
7 7 (10.45%) Scrum
8 6 (8.96%) API Testing
9 4 (5.97%) SDET
10 3 (4.48%) Coaching
10 3 (4.48%) Collaborative Culture
10 3 (4.48%) Critical Thinking
10 3 (4.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) SQL
2 5 (7.46%) Python
3 4 (5.97%) Java
4 3 (4.48%) C#
5 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.49%) Go
6 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Degree
2 3 (4.48%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
1 2 (2.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
2 1 (1.49%) Grafana
2 1 (1.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.49%) Splunk