QA Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 586 512
Rank change year-on-year +18 -74 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 197 189 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.36% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 136 124 287
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £54,063 £61,250 £58,125
90th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,582 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.39% -0.76% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +7 65 £40,000 -20.00% 23
Scotland -32 43 £52,500 -25.00% 2
South West -3 35 £52,000 +30.00% 12
North of England +28 21 £45,000 +12.50% 8
Midlands -19 13 £40,000 -23.81% 4
North West +3 12 £47,500 +5.56% 5
Wales +18 11 £70,000 +12.00% 2
West Midlands 0 10 £40,000 -23.81% 3
East of England -4 9 £40,000 -15.79% 10
Yorkshire +68 6 £35,000 +12.90% 3
North East -6 3 £40,000 -42.86%
East Midlands -7 3 £45,000 -18.18% 1
QA Engineer
UK

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 197 (100.00%) QA
2 111 (56.35%) Test Automation
3 65 (32.99%) Agile
4 64 (32.49%) Software Testing
5 52 (26.40%) Manufacturing
6 35 (17.77%) CI/CD
7 33 (16.75%) JavaScript
7 33 (16.75%) Manual Testing
8 31 (15.74%) SQL
8 31 (15.74%) Java
9 29 (14.72%) Test Scripting
9 29 (14.72%) Postman
10 28 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (14.21%) Cucumber
10 28 (14.21%) Cypress.io
10 28 (14.21%) Code Quality
11 27 (13.71%) Selenium
12 26 (13.20%) BDD
13 25 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
13 25 (12.69%) JIRA
14 24 (12.18%) Python
14 24 (12.18%) Electronics
14 24 (12.18%) Collaborative Working
14 24 (12.18%) Social Skills
15 23 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (11.17%) Scrum
17 21 (10.66%) Spring
17 21 (10.66%) Product Requirements
18 20 (10.15%) Spring Boot
18 20 (10.15%) SDLC

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Simulink
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.15%) Azure
2 16 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (6.60%) AWS
3 13 (6.60%) SaaS
4 9 (4.57%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (0.51%) BrowserStack
5 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) 5G
1 3 (1.52%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.52%) GSM
1 3 (1.52%) ISDN
1 3 (1.52%) LTE
1 3 (1.52%) PSTN
1 3 (1.52%) UMTS
1 3 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.02%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.51%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (14.72%) Postman
2 28 (14.21%) Cucumber
2 28 (14.21%) Cypress.io
3 27 (13.71%) Selenium
4 25 (12.69%) JIRA
5 19 (9.64%) Jenkins
5 19 (9.64%) JMeter
6 11 (5.58%) Visual Studio
7 9 (4.57%) Gradle
7 9 (4.57%) Maven
8 6 (3.05%) Appium
8 6 (3.05%) SoapUI
8 6 (3.05%) SpecFlow
9 5 (2.54%) Android Studio
10 4 (2.03%) Git
10 4 (2.03%) JUnit
10 4 (2.03%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.52%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.52%) LabVIEW
11 3 (1.52%) Mockito
General
1 52 (26.40%) Manufacturing
2 25 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.18%) Electronics
3 24 (12.18%) Social Skills
4 23 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (10.15%) Finance
5 20 (10.15%) Games
6 10 (5.08%) Law
6 10 (5.08%) Marketing
7 8 (4.06%) Aviation
8 6 (3.05%) Automotive
9 5 (2.54%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.54%) Banking
9 5 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.52%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.52%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.02%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Retail
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.66%) Spring
2 20 (10.15%) Spring Boot
3 10 (5.08%) Playwright
3 10 (5.08%) React
4 9 (4.57%) Ext JS
5 7 (3.55%) .NET
6 6 (3.05%) REST
7 5 (2.54%) Swagger
8 3 (1.52%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.52%) Web Services
8 3 (1.52%) WireMock
9 2 (1.02%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.02%) JSON
9 2 (1.02%) XML
10 1 (0.51%) Kafka
10 1 (0.51%) Middleware
10 1 (0.51%) Nightwatchjs
10 1 (0.51%) Node.js
10 1 (0.51%) pytest
10 1 (0.51%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.08%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.57%) Market Risk
4 7 (3.55%) Video\Live Streaming
5 6 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.05%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.52%) Acoustics
6 3 (1.52%) Satnav
7 2 (1.02%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.02%) IoT
7 2 (1.02%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.02%) Robotics
7 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.57%) Android
2 4 (2.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.52%) Linux
3 3 (1.52%) Windows
4 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.02%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (56.35%) Test Automation
2 65 (32.99%) Agile
3 64 (32.49%) Software Testing
4 35 (17.77%) CI/CD
5 33 (16.75%) Manual Testing
6 29 (14.72%) Test Scripting
7 28 (14.21%) Code Quality
7 28 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.20%) BDD
9 24 (12.18%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (11.17%) Scrum
11 21 (10.66%) Product Requirements
12 20 (10.15%) DevOps
12 20 (10.15%) Internal Audit
12 20 (10.15%) SDLC
13 19 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (9.64%) FMEA
13 19 (9.64%) QA Automation
13 19 (9.64%) TDD
14 18 (9.14%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.75%) JavaScript
2 31 (15.74%) Java
2 31 (15.74%) SQL
3 24 (12.18%) Python
4 9 (4.57%) C#
5 2 (1.02%) Bash
5 2 (1.02%) MATLAB
5 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.51%) C
6 1 (0.51%) Go
6 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (10.15%) Degree
2 6 (3.05%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.52%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.02%) ISEB
4 2 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (3.55%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.54%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.51%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 4 (2.03%) Firmware
2 3 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.52%) Terraform
2 1 (0.51%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.51%) Grafana
2 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (4.57%) TOWER Software
2 7 (3.55%) MuleSoft
3 6 (3.05%) OutSystems
4 4 (2.03%) Oracle
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.51%) Splunk