Senior QA Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 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 763 672 798
Rank change year-on-year -91 +126 -116
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 7 61 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.11% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.12% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 42
10th Percentile £41,625 £44,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £55,938 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,125 £80,250 £75,775
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +8.70%

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%

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Senior QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior QA 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 West -31 3 - - 2
South East -35 2 £45,000 -30.77%
Midlands -13 1 £77,500 +55.00%
East of England -14 1 £42,500 - 2
East Midlands -17 1 £77,500 +55.00%
Senior QA Engineer
UK

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

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

1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Games
4 1 (14.29%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (14.29%) Nightwatchjs
4 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Replication
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) Epics
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
1 1 (14.29%) Nightwatchjs
1 1 (14.29%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) API Testing
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) Epics
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA