Senior Quality Engineer salary in the United Kingdom
What a Senior Quality Engineer in the United Kingdom is paid as a permanent, full-time hire, before tax. From Taligent's salary benchmark for November 2026.
Typical range £46,000 to £60,000
Where the market sits
Compared with other roles in the United Kingdom
Senior Quality Engineer has the lowest median of the 4 salary benchmarks published here for the United Kingdom, 20% below the middle of the others.
- Division Operations Manager£90,000
- Project Quality Manager£65,000
- Engineering Manager£60,000
- Senior Quality Engineer£52,000
Annual base salary, before tax, GBP. Each bar is the typical range; the mark is the median.
What the figures mean
The median is the middle of the market: half of comparable Senior Quality Engineer roles in the United Kingdom pay more than £52,000 a year and half pay less.
The typical range runs from the lower quartile, £46,000, to the upper quartile, £60,000, and holds the middle half of roles. A salary below £46,000 sits in the lowest quarter of the market; one above £60,000 sits in the top quarter.
- Role
- Senior Quality Engineer
- Level
- Senior
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Basis
- Permanent, full-time
- Pay
- Annual base salary, before tax
- Currency
- GBP
- Made
- November 2026
An estimate, made by a model
These figures come from Taligent's salary benchmarking model, run in November 2026 for a Senior Quality Engineer role in the United Kingdom. They are a model estimate, not a pay survey, and carry no sample size.
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