Quality Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 638 737
Rank change year-on-year +65 +99 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 200 95 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 125 31 77
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £36,527
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £45,000 £70,000 £62,750
90th Percentile £55,600 £87,419 £71,150
UK median annual salary £40,000 £66,911 £62,000
% change year-on-year -40.22% +7.92% +12.73%

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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
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 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality 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 Quality Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 81 £39,000 -23.90% 41
South West +2 33 £37,500 -25.00% 33
Wales - 33 £35,000 - 8
Midlands +7 30 £45,000 - 28
West Midlands +6 28 £45,000 - 23
North of England +22 10 £40,000 -30.43% 28
East of England -5 6 £47,000 - 13
North West -7 6 £45,000 - 15
Scotland -80 6 £40,000 -9.09% 6
North East - 3 £40,000 - 6
East Midlands - 2 £45,000 - 5
Yorkshire +42 1 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5
Quality Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Quality 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 113 (56.50%) QA
2 97 (48.50%) Manufacturing
3 44 (22.00%) Electronics
4 37 (18.50%) Internal Audit
5 35 (17.50%) Product Requirements
6 34 (17.00%) FMEA
7 33 (16.50%) Collaborative Working
8 27 (13.50%) Automotive
9 19 (9.50%) ISO 9001
10 15 (7.50%) Test Automation
11 13 (6.50%) Aerospace
12 11 (5.50%) QMS
13 10 (5.00%) Degree
13 10 (5.00%) Cost Reduction
14 9 (4.50%) GMP
14 9 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (4.50%) Regulatory Compliance
15 8 (4.00%) Defect Management
15 8 (4.00%) ISO 14001
15 8 (4.00%) Software Testing
15 8 (4.00%) Agile
15 8 (4.00%) Code Quality
16 7 (3.50%) CI/CD
16 7 (3.50%) Postman
16 7 (3.50%) JMeter
16 7 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (3.50%) ETL
16 7 (3.50%) DevOps
16 7 (3.50%) Azure
17 6 (3.00%) SoapUI

Quality 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:

Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Simulink
2 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (3.50%) Azure
2 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) 5G
1 3 (1.50%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.50%) GSM
1 3 (1.50%) ISDN
1 3 (1.50%) LTE
1 3 (1.50%) PSTN
1 3 (1.50%) UMTS
1 3 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (3.50%) JMeter
1 7 (3.50%) Postman
2 6 (3.00%) SoapUI
2 6 (3.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.50%) LabVIEW
3 3 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.50%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.50%) MSTest
4 1 (0.50%) Newman
4 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.50%) Selenium
4 1 (0.50%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (48.50%) Manufacturing
2 44 (22.00%) Electronics
3 27 (13.50%) Automotive
4 13 (6.50%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.00%) Finance
7 3 (1.50%) Aviation
7 3 (1.50%) Games
7 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.00%) Legal
8 2 (1.00%) Retail
8 2 (1.00%) Social Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.50%) pytest
1 1 (0.50%) Sass
1 1 (0.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (3.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (1.50%) Acoustics
2 3 (1.50%) Robotics
2 3 (1.50%) Satnav
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (18.50%) Internal Audit
2 35 (17.50%) Product Requirements
3 34 (17.00%) FMEA
4 33 (16.50%) Collaborative Working
5 15 (7.50%) Test Automation
6 11 (5.50%) QMS
7 10 (5.00%) Cost Reduction
8 9 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (4.50%) Regulatory Compliance
9 8 (4.00%) Agile
9 8 (4.00%) Code Quality
9 8 (4.00%) Defect Management
9 8 (4.00%) Software Testing
10 7 (3.50%) CI/CD
10 7 (3.50%) DevOps
10 7 (3.50%) ETL
11 6 (3.00%) Analytics
11 6 (3.00%) Change Management
11 6 (3.00%) Migration
11 6 (3.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.00%) Python
2 3 (1.50%) MATLAB
2 3 (1.50%) SQL
3 2 (1.00%) C#
4 1 (0.50%) Bash
4 1 (0.50%) C
4 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (5.00%) Degree
2 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.50%) NVQ Level 4
3 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (56.50%) QA
2 19 (9.50%) ISO 9001
3 9 (4.50%) GMP
4 8 (4.00%) ISO 14001
5 3 (1.50%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.00%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.50%) COSHH
7 1 (0.50%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (3.00%) MuleSoft
1 6 (3.00%) OutSystems
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.50%) CA
3 1 (0.50%) Denodo
3 1 (0.50%) Minitab
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle
3 1 (0.50%) Talend
160 Quality Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London