QA Tester Jobs

Quality Assurance Tester
UK

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 848 888 1061
Rank change year-on-year +40 +173 -226
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 36 87 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.087% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.096% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 29 82 111
10th Percentile £35,250 £22,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £58,000 £70,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -2.60%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in the UK

QA Tester
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for QA Tester in the UK

QA Tester
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Tester over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Tester in the UK

QA Tester
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England +33 30 £42,500 -15.00% 11
Work from Home +55 24 £40,000 -20.00% 7
UK excluding London -43 22 £40,000 -11.11% 8
London +93 10 £48,750 -22.00% 2
Midlands -22 10 £40,000 +45.45% 4
North of England +33 5 £40,000 -20.00% 3
North West 0 5 £40,000 -33.33% 1
West Midlands -3 5 £40,000 -23.81% 3
East Midlands -17 5 - - 1
Wales - 3 £42,500 -
South East -1 2 £42,500 -10.53%
South West -26 2 £40,000 -11.11%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) QA
2 23 (63.89%) Test Automation
3 20 (55.56%) Agile
4 16 (44.44%) Software Testing
5 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (36.11%) Cucumber
7 11 (30.56%) BDD
7 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (30.56%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (27.78%) Selenium
8 10 (27.78%) Scrum
8 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
9 9 (25.00%) Java
10 8 (22.22%) Project Management
10 8 (22.22%) Fintech
10 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
11 7 (19.44%) DevOps
11 7 (19.44%) Non-Functional Testing
11 7 (19.44%) AWS
11 7 (19.44%) B2B
11 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
11 7 (19.44%) Regression Testing
11 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
11 7 (19.44%) Web Development
12 6 (16.67%) JIRA
12 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
12 6 (16.67%) Functional Testing
12 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
13 5 (13.89%) Backlog Refinement
13 5 (13.89%) Backlog Prioritisation

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) SaaS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
1 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Cucumber
2 10 (27.78%) Selenium
3 6 (16.67%) JIRA
4 5 (13.89%) Git
5 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
6 3 (8.33%) Appium
6 3 (8.33%) JMeter
6 3 (8.33%) SpecFlow
7 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
7 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
8 1 (2.78%) GitLab
8 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.78%) JUnit
8 1 (2.78%) Postman
8 1 (2.78%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.78%) TestNG
General
1 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (13.89%) Retail
4 3 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Spring
1 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
2 4 (11.11%) RESTful
3 3 (8.33%) Playwright
3 3 (8.33%) SOAP
4 2 (5.56%) CSS
4 2 (5.56%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) React
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.78%) Jest
5 1 (2.78%) jQuery
5 1 (2.78%) PySpark
5 1 (2.78%) Swagger
5 1 (2.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.78%) Media Streaming
3 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.78%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Debian
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Test Automation
2 20 (55.56%) Agile
3 16 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (30.56%) BDD
5 11 (30.56%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 10 (27.78%) Scrum
7 8 (22.22%) Fintech
7 8 (22.22%) Project Management
8 7 (19.44%) B2B
8 7 (19.44%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (19.44%) Regression Testing
8 7 (19.44%) Web Development
9 6 (16.67%) Functional Testing
9 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
10 5 (13.89%) Agile Testing
10 5 (13.89%) Test Management
10 5 (13.89%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
2 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.11%) C#
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) Ruby
5 2 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
1 3 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.78%) ISEB
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) Hitachi