Market slice

QA Engineer jobs in Manchester

1,204 open QA Engineer jobs in Manchester. Median salary £90.5k, 7.4% remote, 56 posted this week.

Open roles
1,204
56 new this week
Median salary
£90.5k
6.6% disclose pay
Remote share
7.4%
of all openings
Median age of posting
73d
35.7% older than 60d
Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted73d median90d+
Age of postingShare
Posted in the last 7 days11.3%
Median age73 days
Older than 60 days35.7%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

£41k£157k
Based on 79 postings that disclose pay — 6.6% of this slice.
Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.
PercentileSalary
25th£71,500
Median£90,500
75th£112,000
90th£137,500
Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

Rivergate Media
113
Northwind Systems
105
Pinewood Education
96
Beacon Robotics
87
Halcyon Energy
78
Cobalt Financial
70
Tidewater Insurance
61
Umbra Security
53

Top technologies

Go
72.0%
HubSpot
65.8%
JavaScript
59.6%
Kotlin
53.4%
Tableau
47.2%
Docker
41.0%
TypeScript
34.8%
dbt
28.6%

Most-asked skills

Communication
58.0%
Budgeting
52.6%
Data modelling
47.2%
Vendor management
41.8%
Cross-functional leadership
36.4%
Coaching
31.0%
Forecasting
25.6%
Technical writing
20.2%
Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote
7.4%
Hybrid
47.7%
In Person
44.9%

Top locations

Manchester
34.0%
United States
30.4%
Canada
26.8%
United Kingdom
23.2%
Ireland
19.6%
Germany
16.0%
France
12.4%
Netherlands
8.8%
Employers
373
hiring in this slice
Posted last 7d
11.3%
of the cohort
Salary disclosed
6.6%
of postings publish pay
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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many qa engineer jobs are open in Manchester?

We track qa engineer openings published in Manchester, refreshed continuously. The count at the top of this page is the current total. Job postings read directly from company applicant tracking systems.

What does a qa engineer earn in Manchester?

The median advertised salary is shown above, alongside the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles. Only postings that publish a salary are included, so the sample is smaller than the total number of openings.

How do I get this data through an API?

Every number on this page comes from one call to our jobs and insights endpoints. See the API documentation for the request shape and filters.

Figures cover 1,204 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →
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