QA Tester Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in England is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 834 808 1013
Rank change year-on-year -26 +205 -203
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 29 86 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 18 82 111
10th Percentile £36,250 £22,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,563 £36,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £51,563 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured QA Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Tester in England.

Salary trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Tester in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +10 8 £40,000 -20.00% 3
North West -19 8 £40,000 -33.33% 3
Midlands -51 8 £40,000 +45.45% 1
London +71 7 £47,500 -24.00% 3
East Midlands -28 5 - -
West Midlands -25 3 £40,000 +45.45% 1
South East -41 2 £42,500 -12.82% 1
South West -45 2 £40,000 -11.11%
East of England -11 1 - -
QA Tester
UK

QA Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, QA Tester 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 England region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 18 (62.07%) Test Automation
3 16 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (51.72%) Agile
5 13 (44.83%) Selenium
6 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
7 10 (34.48%) Scrum
8 9 (31.03%) BDD
8 9 (31.03%) DevOps
8 9 (31.03%) Software Testing
9 8 (27.59%) Project Management
9 8 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
9 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (27.59%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (24.14%) Cucumber
10 7 (24.14%) SQL
10 7 (24.14%) C#
10 7 (24.14%) B2B
10 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
10 7 (24.14%) Web Development
11 6 (20.69%) ISTQB
11 6 (20.69%) JMeter
11 6 (20.69%) SaaS
11 6 (20.69%) SpecFlow
12 5 (17.24%) Gherkin
12 5 (17.24%) User Stories
12 5 (17.24%) AWS
12 5 (17.24%) WebDriver
12 5 (17.24%) Scenario Testing

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) SaaS
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
1 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Selenium
2 7 (24.14%) Cucumber
3 6 (20.69%) JMeter
3 6 (20.69%) SpecFlow
4 5 (17.24%) TeamCity
4 5 (17.24%) WebDriver
5 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
5 4 (13.79%) JIRA
6 2 (6.90%) Appium
6 2 (6.90%) Git
7 1 (3.45%) GitLab
7 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
7 1 (3.45%) JUnit
7 1 (3.45%) Postman
7 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Retail
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Gherkin
2 4 (13.79%) RESTful
3 3 (10.34%) CSS
3 3 (10.34%) HTML
3 3 (10.34%) Playwright
3 3 (10.34%) Spring
3 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.90%) React
4 2 (6.90%) SOAP
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.45%) Jest
5 1 (3.45%) jQuery
5 1 (3.45%) PySpark
5 1 (3.45%) Swagger
5 1 (3.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Test Automation
2 16 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (51.72%) Agile
4 10 (34.48%) Scrum
5 9 (31.03%) BDD
5 9 (31.03%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Software Testing
6 8 (27.59%) Non-Functional Testing
6 8 (27.59%) Project Management
6 8 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (24.14%) B2B
7 7 (24.14%) Web Development
8 5 (17.24%) B2C
8 5 (17.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (17.24%) Backlog Refinement
8 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
8 5 (17.24%) Release Management
8 5 (17.24%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (17.24%) Scenario Testing
8 5 (17.24%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
2 7 (24.14%) C#
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle