Quality Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 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 562 637 743
Rank change year-on-year +75 +106 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 219 91 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 141 30 80
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £36,527
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £39,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £56,978
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.25% +26.62%
75th Percentile £45,000 £71,250 £62,750
90th Percentile £56,000 £87,419 £72,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £66,911 £62,250
% change year-on-year -40.22% +7.49% +13.18%

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%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality 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 Quality 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 +26 87 £39,000 -23.90% 38
South West -7 36 £37,500 -25.00% 24
Wales - 36 £35,000 - 6
Midlands -13 33 £45,000 - 30
West Midlands +12 31 £45,000 - 22
North of England +1 10 £40,000 -25.58% 28
East of England -6 10 £47,000 - 9
North West -18 6 £45,000 - 16
Scotland -80 6 £40,000 -9.09% 3
North East - 3 £40,000 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £45,000 - 8
Yorkshire +48 1 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Quality Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Quality 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 122 (55.71%) QA
2 99 (45.21%) Manufacturing
3 44 (20.09%) Electronics
4 33 (15.07%) Internal Audit
5 31 (14.16%) Product Requirements
6 30 (13.70%) FMEA
6 30 (13.70%) Automotive
7 29 (13.24%) Collaborative Working
8 19 (8.68%) ISO 9001
9 16 (7.31%) Aerospace
9 16 (7.31%) Test Automation
10 11 (5.02%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (5.02%) QMS
10 11 (5.02%) Degree
10 11 (5.02%) GMP
11 10 (4.57%) Cost Reduction
12 9 (4.11%) Software Testing
12 9 (4.11%) Agile
12 9 (4.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (3.65%) Defect Management
13 8 (3.65%) ISO 14001
13 8 (3.65%) Code Quality
14 7 (3.20%) CI/CD
14 7 (3.20%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (3.20%) Postman
14 7 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (3.20%) ETL
14 7 (3.20%) JMeter
14 7 (3.20%) DevOps
14 7 (3.20%) Azure

Quality 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:

Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Simulink
2 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (3.20%) Azure
2 6 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.37%) 5G
1 3 (1.37%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.37%) GSM
1 3 (1.37%) ISDN
1 3 (1.37%) LTE
1 3 (1.37%) PSTN
1 3 (1.37%) UMTS
1 3 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (3.20%) JMeter
1 7 (3.20%) Postman
2 6 (2.74%) SoapUI
2 6 (2.74%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.37%) LabVIEW
3 3 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.37%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.91%) Selenium
5 1 (0.46%) MSTest
5 1 (0.46%) Newman
5 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.46%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.46%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 99 (45.21%) Manufacturing
2 44 (20.09%) Electronics
3 30 (13.70%) Automotive
4 16 (7.31%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.83%) Finance
6 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.37%) Aviation
7 3 (1.37%) Games
7 3 (1.37%) Social Skills
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.91%) Legal
8 2 (0.91%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Law
9 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.46%) Playwright
1 1 (0.46%) pytest
1 1 (0.46%) Sass
1 1 (0.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (2.74%) Low-Code
2 3 (1.37%) Acoustics
2 3 (1.37%) Robotics
2 3 (1.37%) Satnav
3 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (15.07%) Internal Audit
2 31 (14.16%) Product Requirements
3 30 (13.70%) FMEA
4 29 (13.24%) Collaborative Working
5 16 (7.31%) Test Automation
6 11 (5.02%) QMS
6 11 (5.02%) Regulatory Compliance
7 10 (4.57%) Cost Reduction
8 9 (4.11%) Agile
8 9 (4.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (4.11%) Software Testing
9 8 (3.65%) Code Quality
9 8 (3.65%) Defect Management
10 7 (3.20%) CI/CD
10 7 (3.20%) DevOps
10 7 (3.20%) ETL
10 7 (3.20%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (2.74%) Change Management
11 6 (2.74%) Migration
11 6 (2.74%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.83%) Python
2 3 (1.37%) C#
2 3 (1.37%) MATLAB
2 3 (1.37%) SQL
3 1 (0.46%) Bash
3 1 (0.46%) C
3 1 (0.46%) Java
3 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (5.02%) Degree
2 5 (2.28%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.83%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.46%) NVQ Level 4
5 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (55.71%) QA
2 19 (8.68%) ISO 9001
3 11 (5.02%) GMP
4 8 (3.65%) ISO 14001
5 3 (1.37%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.91%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) COSHH
7 1 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (2.74%) MuleSoft
1 6 (2.74%) OutSystems
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.46%) CA
3 1 (0.46%) Denodo
3 1 (0.46%) Minitab
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle
3 1 (0.46%) Talend