QA Engineer: market
Data as of November 10, 2026: 6,407 open QA Engineer jobs, 28% of them remote; median advertised salary $6,950/mo (from 631 postings that state a salary). Source: Zorky, updated daily.
A QA Engineer checks product quality: writes test cases and scenarios, finds and reports defects, automates regression testing and makes sure a release does not break what already works. We currently track 6 407 open positions for this role, 5 449 of them fresh. The foundation is testing theory, test design and a bug tracker (Jira); automation adds Java, Python or TypeScript with Selenium, Playwright or Cypress, API testing (Postman), SQL and CI. By co-occurrence in requirements, Python, Java, Playwright and Selenium appear most often. 34% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the QA Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The QA Engineer market currently has 6,407 open roles, 5,449 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,950/mo.
34% of QA Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 631 of 6407 jobs; remote share from 5278 with a stated format; 5449 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply: QA Engineer
| Open demand | 6,407 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: QA Engineer
- usable for the calculation: 631 (9.8%)
- stated but not converted to USD/month: 1,047 (16.3%)
- not stated: 4,729 (73.8%)
One in ten postings offers under $2,717, one in ten over $13,541. Half of the postings offer between $4,375 and $10,833. Sample: 631.
The range histogram for QA Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: QA Engineer
| country | jobs | share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,409 | 25.4% |
| Poland | 954 | 17.2% |
| India | 555 | 10% |
| Russia | 363 | 6.5% |
| United Kingdom | 208 | 3.8% |
| Germany | 188 | 3.4% |
| Ukraine | 185 | 3.3% |
| Canada | 136 | 2.5% |
| Philippines | 72 | 1.3% |
| Kazakhstan | 68 | 1.2% |
| Other countries | 1,407 | 25.4% |
The top country for QA Engineer demand is the US (1 409 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Share — how many of the 6,407 jobs in the QA Engineer market mention this technology. Ordered by job count, not by “strength of association”. Umbrella terms like cloud are not a specific cloud (AWS, Azure).
In QA Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Python, Java, Playwright and Selenium.
Demand by grade: QA Engineer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 2,055 |
| middle | 563 |
| lead | 336 |
| junior | 323 |
| principal | 226 |
Senior-and-above is about 75% of 3 503 QA Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: QA Engineer
Demand is spread across 2,814 employers. The largest accounts for 2.0%, the top ten for 8.5%; the remaining 91.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.0% |
| top-3 | 4.7% |
| top-10 | 8.5% |
| long tail | 91.5% |
QA Engineer openings come from 2 814 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 2.0% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 184 sources; the largest accounts for 13.3% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
QA Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: QA Engineer
- Engineer III, Cloud SDET - Endpoint (Hybrid, Sunnyvale) · US · $10,000
- Sr. Engineer - Linux Sensor SDET (Hybrid) · $11,667
- Sr Manager - QA Automation · IN
- Senior Staff AI Engineer, (AI Quality & Test Automation) · US
- Sr Systems Test Engineer · US
- Engineer III – Cloud SDET · IN
- Руководитель группы тестирования (Lead QA Engineer / Test Team Lead) · RU
- QA Lead · TH
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-11-10
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the QA Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a QA Engineer do?
A QA Engineer checks product quality: writes test cases and scenarios, finds and reports defects, automates regression testing and makes sure a release does not break what already works.
Which skills do QA Engineer postings require?
The foundation is testing theory, test design and a bug tracker (Jira); automation adds Java, Python or TypeScript with Selenium, Playwright or Cypress, API testing (Postman), SQL and CI. In the current slice, Python, Java, Playwright and Selenium appear in requirements most often.
Manual testing or automation?
Manual testing is a common way into the field; automation widens the choice of openings. How many are open in each track is shown on the Manual QA and QA Automation pages.
How remote-friendly are QA Engineer jobs?
34% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 6 407 open positions.
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