QA Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £41,250 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 758 662 830
Rank change year-on-year -96 +168 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 16 65 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.12% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.13% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 22
10th Percentile - £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,125 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +16.88%
75th Percentile £47,500 £67,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £63,250 £72,750 £56,250
UK median annual salary £41,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.50% -4.76% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

QA Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Test 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 Test 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 -36 8 £38,750 -35.42%
Scotland -64 3 £70,000 -
West Midlands -10 2 £42,500 -21.30%
East of England -17 2 £37,500 - 1
Midlands -31 2 £42,500 -22.02%
South West -28 1 £65,000 +16.07% 1
QA Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, QA Test 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 13 (81.25%) Test Automation
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 6 (37.50%) Selenium
5 5 (31.25%) Degree
5 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Java
6 4 (25.00%) Python
7 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Biomedicine
8 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
8 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 2 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Product Requirements
8 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (12.50%) QMS
8 2 (12.50%) Android
8 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
8 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
8 2 (12.50%) Git
8 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (12.50%) Azure

QA Test 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 (12.50%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Selenium
2 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) Appium
3 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) JBehave
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (12.50%) UI Automator
4 1 (6.25%) Mocha
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Automotive
2 2 (12.50%) Games
2 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ADO
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
1 2 (12.50%) Java EE
1 2 (12.50%) OpenJDK
1 2 (12.50%) REST
1 2 (12.50%) SOAP
1 2 (12.50%) Spring
1 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) Jest
2 1 (6.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Android
1 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 2 (12.50%) Mac OS X
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Test Automation
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Biomedicine
6 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
7 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
7 2 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (12.50%) OO
7 2 (12.50%) OOP
7 2 (12.50%) Product Requirements
7 2 (12.50%) Quality Management
7 2 (12.50%) SDET
7 2 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility