QA / Test Engineer Salary UK 2024 — Median £41,179 (ONS)

What a QA / Test Engineer earns in the UK — real ONS median £41,179 plus a 2025/26 take-home calculator. Live in your browser.

QA / Test Engineer salary in the UK: the median full-time gross pay is £41,179 (ONS ASHE 2024, SOC 2136). Includes a free 2025/26 take-home pay calculator (Income Tax + National Insurance) that runs entirely in your browser. It runs free in your browser on Gera Tools, with nothing uploaded.

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What is the average QA / Test Engineer salary in the UK?

The median full-time QA / Test Engineer salary in the UK is £41,179 per year (gross), per ONS ASHE 2024 (SOC 2136).

QA / Test Engineer salary in the UK

The median full-time QA / Test Engineer salary in the UK is £41,179 per year (gross). ONS suppressed some percentiles for this occupation on data-quality grounds, so only the median is shown.

This figure is the median gross annual pay for full-time employees from the Office for National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2024, occupation SOC 2136 — IT quality and testing professionals, for the pay period including 17 April 2024 (provisional).

On the median £41,179 salary, take-home pay for 2025/26 is about £33,168 a year (after Income Tax and National Insurance, England/Wales/NI bands, before pension or student loan). Enter any salary above to see the full breakdown.

GeraJobs is currently tracking 1,234 open UK technology jobs (live crawl count as of 2026-06-17) — a demand signal, not a salary.

Scope: salary figures are ONS ASHE 2024 medians/percentiles for full-time employees. The take-home calculator uses 2025/26 England, Wales & Northern Ireland tax bands. Scotland has different Income Tax bands. Always verify against the ONS ASHE release.