QA Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer - Quality Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer - Quality Assurance salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Software Engineer 10 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 - £57,500

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 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
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 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Software 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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Scotland - 9 - -
South East - 1 £70,000 -
QA Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, QA Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) JMeter
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
1 10 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 10 (100.00%) QA
1 10 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Verification and Validation
2 9 (90.00%) Gradle
2 9 (90.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (90.00%) Code Quality
2 9 (90.00%) React
2 9 (90.00%) BlazeMeter
2 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (90.00%) Community of Practice
2 9 (90.00%) Operational Stability
2 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) SDLC
2 9 (90.00%) Cypress.io
2 9 (90.00%) Visualisation
2 9 (90.00%) Test Planning
2 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement

QA Software 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 1 (10.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JMeter
2 9 (90.00%) Cypress.io
2 9 (90.00%) Gradle
2 9 (90.00%) JIRA
2 9 (90.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
1 9 (90.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 9 (90.00%) Law
1 9 (90.00%) Marketing
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (90.00%) Ext JS
2 9 (90.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (90.00%) BDD
2 9 (90.00%) Code Quality
2 9 (90.00%) Community of Practice
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (90.00%) Data Validation
2 9 (90.00%) Electronic Trading
2 9 (90.00%) Manual Testing
2 9 (90.00%) Operational Stability
2 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Test Scripting
2 9 (90.00%) Verification and Validation
2 9 (90.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) TOWER Software
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk