Software QA Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Quality Assurance Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 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 763 689 826
Rank change year-on-year -74 +137 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Software QA Engineer 11 38 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.068% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.077% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 27
10th Percentile £36,700 £38,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £39,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,625 £49,375 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,500 £52,750 £57,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +17.65%

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%

Software QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Software QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Software QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Software 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
Scotland -62 5 £45,000 -
South West -25 2 £60,000 +33.33% 2
South East -33 2 £53,750 +26.47%
East of England -18 1 - -
North of England - 1 £38,500 -
North East - 1 £38,500 -
Software QA Engineer
UK

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

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

1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) SDLC
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (36.36%) Aviation
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Degree
4 4 (36.36%) Test Management
4 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
4 4 (36.36%) System Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Java
6 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) .NET
6 2 (18.18%) Python
6 2 (18.18%) Finance
6 2 (18.18%) Games
6 2 (18.18%) JSON
6 2 (18.18%) JIRA
6 2 (18.18%) Confluence
6 2 (18.18%) Hedge funds
6 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
6 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server

Software 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 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (9.09%) Couchbase
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Postman
1 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Aviation
2 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) JSON
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) Swagger
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Hedge funds
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) SDLC
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
3 4 (36.36%) System Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Test Management
3 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (18.18%) Fintech
5 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
6 1 (9.09%) Exploratory Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Microservices
6 1 (9.09%) SDET
6 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (9.09%) Sprint Review
6 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk