QA Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median 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 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 559 563 528
Rank change year-on-year +4 -35 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 222 165 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.30% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.34% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 151 114 301
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £54,375 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +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%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 QA Engineer within the UK excluding 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
South East -18 68 £40,000 -20.00% 14
Scotland -37 47 £52,500 -25.00%
South West -16 43 £50,000 +25.00% 7
North of England +5 27 £45,000 +5.88% 3
East of England -14 16 £40,000 -15.79% 9
North West -18 16 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Wales +22 11 £70,000 +12.00% 1
Midlands -40 10 £41,250 -17.50% 5
Yorkshire +55 8 £35,000 +12.90%
West Midlands -9 8 £40,000 -20.00% 4
North East -17 3 £40,000 -42.86% 2
East Midlands -32 2 £61,250 +22.50% 1
QA Engineer
UK

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 222 (100.00%) QA
2 115 (51.80%) Test Automation
3 67 (30.18%) Software Testing
4 65 (29.28%) Agile
5 56 (25.23%) Manufacturing
6 37 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 34 (15.32%) Selenium
7 34 (15.32%) Manual Testing
7 34 (15.32%) Cypress.io
7 34 (15.32%) CI/CD
8 33 (14.86%) Java
9 32 (14.41%) Test Scripting
10 31 (13.96%) Postman
11 29 (13.06%) SQL
12 28 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (12.61%) Code Quality
13 27 (12.16%) Social Skills
13 27 (12.16%) Cucumber
13 27 (12.16%) JIRA
14 25 (11.26%) Python
14 25 (11.26%) BDD
15 24 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
16 23 (10.36%) Electronics
17 22 (9.91%) API Testing
17 22 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (9.46%) Games
18 21 (9.46%) Azure
19 20 (9.01%) Degree
19 20 (9.01%) Spring
19 20 (9.01%) Spring Boot

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 (0.90%) Confluence
1 2 (0.90%) WildFly
2 1 (0.45%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Simulink
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.46%) Azure
2 15 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (6.76%) SaaS
3 11 (4.95%) AWS
4 9 (4.05%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (0.45%) BrowserStack
5 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) 5G
1 3 (1.35%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.35%) GSM
1 3 (1.35%) ISDN
1 3 (1.35%) LTE
1 3 (1.35%) PSTN
1 3 (1.35%) UMTS
1 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.45%) GIS
3 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (15.32%) Cypress.io
1 34 (15.32%) Selenium
2 31 (13.96%) Postman
3 27 (12.16%) Cucumber
3 27 (12.16%) JIRA
4 19 (8.56%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.56%) JMeter
5 11 (4.95%) Visual Studio
6 9 (4.05%) Gradle
6 9 (4.05%) Maven
7 8 (3.60%) Appium
7 8 (3.60%) SpecFlow
8 6 (2.70%) Git
8 6 (2.70%) SoapUI
9 5 (2.25%) Android Studio
10 4 (1.80%) JUnit
10 4 (1.80%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.35%) LabVIEW
11 3 (1.35%) Mockito
General
1 56 (25.23%) Manufacturing
2 27 (12.16%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.36%) Electronics
5 22 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (9.46%) Games
7 18 (8.11%) Finance
8 10 (4.50%) Law
8 10 (4.50%) Marketing
9 8 (3.60%) Aerospace
9 8 (3.60%) Aviation
10 5 (2.25%) Automotive
10 5 (2.25%) Banking
10 5 (2.25%) Tech for Good
10 5 (2.25%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.35%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.90%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Retail
13 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.01%) Spring
1 20 (9.01%) Spring Boot
2 14 (6.31%) Playwright
3 10 (4.50%) React
4 9 (4.05%) Ext JS
5 8 (3.60%) .NET
5 8 (3.60%) REST
6 5 (2.25%) Swagger
7 3 (1.35%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.35%) Web Services
7 3 (1.35%) WireMock
8 2 (0.90%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.90%) ADO
8 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.90%) Java EE
8 2 (0.90%) JSON
8 2 (0.90%) OpenJDK
8 2 (0.90%) SOAP
8 2 (0.90%) XML
9 1 (0.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.05%) Market Risk
2 9 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.15%) Video\Live Streaming
4 6 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.70%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.35%) Acoustics
5 3 (1.35%) Satnav
5 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.90%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.90%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.90%) IoT
6 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.90%) Robotics
7 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.50%) Android
2 5 (2.25%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.35%) Linux
3 3 (1.35%) Windows
4 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.90%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (51.80%) Test Automation
2 67 (30.18%) Software Testing
3 65 (29.28%) Agile
4 34 (15.32%) CI/CD
4 34 (15.32%) Manual Testing
5 32 (14.41%) Test Scripting
6 28 (12.61%) Code Quality
6 28 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (11.26%) BDD
8 22 (9.91%) API Testing
9 20 (9.01%) Collaborative Working
10 19 (8.56%) DevOps
10 19 (8.56%) SDLC
11 18 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (8.11%) Regression Testing
12 17 (7.66%) Product Requirements
12 17 (7.66%) QA Automation
12 17 (7.66%) Scrum
12 17 (7.66%) TDD
13 16 (7.21%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 33 (14.86%) Java
3 29 (13.06%) SQL
4 25 (11.26%) Python
5 16 (7.21%) C#
6 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.90%) Bash
7 2 (0.90%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.45%) C
8 1 (0.45%) Go
8 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (9.01%) Degree
2 8 (3.60%) ISTQB
3 4 (1.80%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.35%) ISEB
4 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.35%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (3.15%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.25%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 4 (1.80%) Firmware
2 3 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.35%) Terraform
2 1 (0.45%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.45%) Grafana
2 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (4.05%) TOWER Software
2 7 (3.15%) MuleSoft
3 6 (2.70%) OutSystems
4 3 (1.35%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.35%) Oracle
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.45%) Splunk