QA Engineer Jobs in London

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in London is £60,000 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 462 412 395
Rank change year-on-year -50 -17 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 47 192 749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.62% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.65% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 44 170 393
10th Percentile £37,375 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - £90,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in London.

Salary trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the London 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
Central London +22 20 £63,750 +6.25%
North London - 3 £40,000 -
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

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

1 47 (100.00%) QA
2 25 (53.19%) Test Automation
3 22 (46.81%) API Testing
4 20 (42.55%) Cucumber
5 17 (36.17%) QA Automation
5 17 (36.17%) Agile
6 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
7 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
7 14 (29.79%) Cypress.io
8 13 (27.66%) SQL
8 13 (27.66%) Postman
9 12 (25.53%) Java
10 11 (23.40%) Selenium
10 11 (23.40%) BDD
10 11 (23.40%) Test Strategy
10 11 (23.40%) SDET
11 10 (21.28%) Azure
11 10 (21.28%) Manual Testing
11 10 (21.28%) Python
12 9 (19.15%) C#
12 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
12 9 (19.15%) REST
12 9 (19.15%) Gherkin
12 9 (19.15%) Jenkins
13 8 (17.02%) SpecFlow
13 8 (17.02%) AWS
13 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (17.02%) Degree
13 8 (17.02%) JIRA
13 8 (17.02%) Software Testing

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (4.26%) Trello
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) Azure
2 8 (17.02%) AWS
3 5 (10.64%) SaaS
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (4.26%) BrowserStack
4 2 (4.26%) ClickUp
4 2 (4.26%) GCP
5 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) Cucumber
2 14 (29.79%) Cypress.io
3 13 (27.66%) Postman
4 11 (23.40%) Selenium
5 9 (19.15%) Jenkins
6 8 (17.02%) JIRA
6 8 (17.02%) SpecFlow
7 7 (14.89%) TeamCity
8 4 (8.51%) Appium
8 4 (8.51%) Git
8 4 (8.51%) JUnit
8 4 (8.51%) REST Assured
9 2 (4.26%) CircleCI
9 2 (4.26%) GitLab
9 2 (4.26%) TestNG
9 2 (4.26%) WebDriver
9 2 (4.26%) XCUITest
10 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.13%) Mockito
10 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Automotive
4 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) Gherkin
1 9 (19.15%) REST
2 8 (17.02%) .NET
2 8 (17.02%) Playwright
3 7 (14.89%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.26%) PySpark
4 2 (4.26%) React
5 1 (2.13%) Jest
5 1 (2.13%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.13%) Puppeteer
5 1 (2.13%) pytest
5 1 (2.13%) Spring
5 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.13%) Web Services
5 1 (2.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.13%) Bitcoin
4 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.13%) Derivative
4 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Android
2 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.26%) Debian
4 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) Test Automation
2 22 (46.81%) API Testing
3 17 (36.17%) Agile
3 17 (36.17%) QA Automation
4 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
5 11 (23.40%) BDD
5 11 (23.40%) SDET
5 11 (23.40%) Test Strategy
6 10 (21.28%) Manual Testing
7 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
8 8 (17.02%) Software Testing
9 7 (14.89%) Test Management
10 6 (12.77%) DevOps
10 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.77%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (12.77%) Test Scripting
11 5 (10.64%) Fintech
11 5 (10.64%) Integration Testing
11 5 (10.64%) Performance Testing
11 5 (10.64%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) SQL
2 12 (25.53%) Java
3 10 (21.28%) Python
4 9 (19.15%) C#
5 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (100.00%) QA
2 8 (17.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.26%) Databricks
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) Splunk