Senior QA Tester Jobs in the South West

Senior Quality Assurance Tester
England > South West

The median Senior Quality Assurance Tester salary in the South West is £50,000 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 292 266 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Tester 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.010% 0.031% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.035% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £46,250 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -26.00% -13.79% +45.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 10,047 5,743 8,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 88.78% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 7,286 3,669 5,113
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,300 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.94% +0.50% +9.09%

Senior QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Tester in the South West

Senior QA Tester
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior QA Tester in the South West.

Salary trend for Senior QA Tester in the South West

Senior QA Tester Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Senior 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 South West region featuring Senior QA Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking

Senior QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA