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 10 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 561 514
Rank change year-on-year -1 -47 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 216 168 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.34% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 147 117 301
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,000 £37,000
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% +16.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,000 £72,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +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 75,349 49,280 72,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 88.83% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 52,720 29,285 42,723
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 10 June 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 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
South East -9 67 £40,000 -20.00% 17
Scotland -29 47 £52,500 -25.00%
South West -5 40 £45,000 +12.50% 8
North of England +10 26 £45,000 +5.88% 3
North West -12 15 £47,500 +5.56% 1
East of England -15 15 £39,000 -17.89% 11
Wales +20 11 £70,000 +12.00% 1
Midlands -33 10 £41,250 -17.50% 5
Yorkshire +60 8 £35,000 +12.90%
West Midlands -11 8 £40,000 -20.00% 4
North East -15 3 £40,000 -42.86% 2
East Midlands -39 2 £61,250 +22.50% 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 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 216 (100.00%) QA
2 113 (52.31%) Test Automation
3 66 (30.56%) Software Testing
4 64 (29.63%) Agile
5 55 (25.46%) Manufacturing
6 37 (17.13%) JavaScript
7 34 (15.74%) CI/CD
8 33 (15.28%) Java
8 33 (15.28%) Selenium
8 33 (15.28%) Manual Testing
8 33 (15.28%) Cypress.io
9 31 (14.35%) Test Scripting
9 31 (14.35%) Postman
10 29 (13.43%) SQL
11 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (12.96%) Code Quality
12 27 (12.50%) Cucumber
13 26 (12.04%) JIRA
13 26 (12.04%) Social Skills
14 25 (11.57%) Python
15 24 (11.11%) BDD
15 24 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
16 22 (10.19%) Electronics
16 22 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (9.72%) Games
17 21 (9.72%) Azure
17 21 (9.72%) API Testing
18 20 (9.26%) Spring Boot
18 20 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
18 20 (9.26%) Degree

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 (0.93%) Confluence
1 2 (0.93%) WildFly
2 1 (0.46%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Simulink
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.72%) Azure
2 15 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (6.48%) SaaS
4 11 (5.09%) AWS
5 9 (4.17%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.46%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.46%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.39%) 5G
1 3 (1.39%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.39%) GSM
1 3 (1.39%) ISDN
1 3 (1.39%) LTE
1 3 (1.39%) PSTN
1 3 (1.39%) UMTS
1 3 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.46%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.46%) GIS
3 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (15.28%) Cypress.io
1 33 (15.28%) Selenium
2 31 (14.35%) Postman
3 27 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 26 (12.04%) JIRA
5 19 (8.80%) Jenkins
5 19 (8.80%) JMeter
6 11 (5.09%) Visual Studio
7 9 (4.17%) Gradle
7 9 (4.17%) Maven
8 8 (3.70%) Appium
8 8 (3.70%) SpecFlow
9 6 (2.78%) Git
9 6 (2.78%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.31%) Android Studio
11 4 (1.85%) JUnit
11 4 (1.85%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.39%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.39%) LabVIEW
12 3 (1.39%) Mockito
General
1 55 (25.46%) Manufacturing
2 26 (12.04%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.19%) Electronics
4 22 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (9.72%) Games
6 18 (8.33%) Finance
7 10 (4.63%) Law
7 10 (4.63%) Marketing
8 8 (3.70%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.70%) Aviation
9 5 (2.31%) Automotive
9 5 (2.31%) Banking
9 5 (2.31%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.39%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.93%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.26%) Spring
1 20 (9.26%) Spring Boot
2 14 (6.48%) Playwright
3 10 (4.63%) React
4 9 (4.17%) Ext JS
5 8 (3.70%) .NET
5 8 (3.70%) REST
6 5 (2.31%) Swagger
7 3 (1.39%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.39%) Web Services
7 3 (1.39%) WireMock
8 2 (0.93%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.93%) ADO
8 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.93%) Java EE
8 2 (0.93%) JSON
8 2 (0.93%) OpenJDK
8 2 (0.93%) SOAP
8 2 (0.93%) XML
9 1 (0.46%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.09%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.17%) Market Risk
2 9 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.24%) Video\Live Streaming
4 6 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.78%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.39%) Acoustics
5 3 (1.39%) Satnav
5 3 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.93%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.93%) IoT
6 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.93%) Robotics
7 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.63%) Android
2 5 (2.31%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.39%) Linux
3 3 (1.39%) Windows
4 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.93%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (52.31%) Test Automation
2 66 (30.56%) Software Testing
3 64 (29.63%) Agile
4 34 (15.74%) CI/CD
5 33 (15.28%) Manual Testing
6 31 (14.35%) Test Scripting
7 28 (12.96%) Code Quality
7 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (11.11%) BDD
9 21 (9.72%) API Testing
10 20 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
11 19 (8.80%) DevOps
11 19 (8.80%) SDLC
12 18 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (7.87%) Product Requirements
13 17 (7.87%) QA Automation
13 17 (7.87%) Regression Testing
13 17 (7.87%) Scrum
13 17 (7.87%) TDD
14 16 (7.41%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.13%) JavaScript
2 33 (15.28%) Java
3 29 (13.43%) SQL
4 25 (11.57%) Python
5 14 (6.48%) C#
6 3 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.93%) Bash
7 2 (0.93%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.46%) C
8 1 (0.46%) Go
8 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (9.26%) Degree
2 7 (3.24%) ISTQB
3 4 (1.85%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.39%) ISEB
4 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.39%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (3.24%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.31%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 4 (1.85%) Firmware
2 3 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.39%) Terraform
2 1 (0.46%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.46%) Grafana
2 1 (0.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (4.17%) TOWER Software
2 7 (3.24%) MuleSoft
3 6 (2.78%) OutSystems
4 3 (1.39%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.46%) Splunk