QA Jobs in the East of England

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 11 43
Rank change year-on-year -60 +32 +41
Permanent jobs citing QA 192 623 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.82% 13.27% 6.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.11% 58.33% 31.18%
Number of salaries quoted 109 40 171
10th Percentile £25,800 £26,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,875 £76,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 683 1,068 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 10.02% 22.74% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 469 247 579
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £35,458
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £60,625
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the East of England.

Salary trend for QA in the East of England

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Cambridgeshire -31 58 £47,500 +63.79% 32
Norfolk -15 40 £39,500 - 9
Hertfordshire -74 32 £54,500 +36.25% 41
Essex -22 30 £37,500 -43.18% 19
Suffolk +1 27 £28,000 -56.92% 14
Bedfordshire -37 5 £45,000 -35.71% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (2.60%) CMS
2 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) Liferay
Applications
1 39 (20.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.52%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Magento
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.56%) Azure
2 2 (1.04%) AWS
3 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.52%) GitHub
3 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (0.52%) SaaS
3 1 (0.52%) Serverless
3 1 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) HTTP
1 1 (0.52%) LAN
1 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.08%) MySQL
2 3 (1.56%) EDMS
3 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.52%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (7.81%) JIRA
2 8 (4.17%) Appium
2 8 (4.17%) UI Automator
3 4 (2.08%) Git
4 3 (1.56%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.04%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.52%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.67%) Legal
3 24 (12.50%) Finance
4 20 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.81%) Automotive
6 14 (7.29%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.73%) Aerospace
8 10 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.69%) Electronics
10 8 (4.17%) Back Office
10 8 (4.17%) Retail
11 7 (3.65%) Local Government
11 7 (3.65%) Marketing
11 7 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (3.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (3.65%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.56%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.56%) Welsh Language
14 2 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (11.46%) Lead
1 22 (11.46%) QA Manager
2 19 (9.90%) Team Leader
3 18 (9.38%) Quality Manager
4 16 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 13 (6.77%) Senior
6 11 (5.73%) Analyst
7 10 (5.21%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.21%) QA Officer
7 10 (5.21%) Quality Engineer
8 8 (4.17%) Head of Test
8 8 (4.17%) Head of Testing
8 8 (4.17%) QA Leader
8 8 (4.17%) QA Team Leader
8 8 (4.17%) Test Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Developer
9 7 (3.65%) Test Manager
9 7 (3.65%) Testing Manager
10 6 (3.13%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (2.60%) Service Desk Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.21%) CSS
1 10 (5.21%) HTML
2 7 (3.65%) .NET
3 4 (2.08%) REST
4 3 (1.56%) JSON
4 3 (1.56%) Spring
4 3 (1.56%) XML
5 2 (1.04%) CSS3
5 2 (1.04%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.04%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.04%) HTML5
5 2 (1.04%) jQuery
5 2 (1.04%) React
5 2 (1.04%) RESTful
5 2 (1.04%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.04%) Spring MVC
5 2 (1.04%) Swing
5 2 (1.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (1.04%) Web Services
6 1 (0.52%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.65%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.13%) Smartphone
3 5 (2.60%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.60%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (2.60%) Robotics
3 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.08%) Blog
4 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.56%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.56%) Derivative
5 3 (1.56%) FMCG
5 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.04%) PMI
6 2 (1.04%) Wiki
7 1 (0.52%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.21%) Linux
1 10 (5.21%) Windows
2 8 (4.17%) Mac OS
3 6 (3.13%) Unix
4 2 (1.04%) Android
4 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.04%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.52%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (17.71%) Time Management
2 33 (17.19%) Agile
2 33 (17.19%) Coaching
3 30 (15.63%) Mentoring
4 25 (13.02%) Root Cause Analysis
5 20 (10.42%) Line Management
5 20 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (9.90%) Customer Service
6 19 (9.90%) Test Automation
7 18 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (8.33%) Project Management
9 11 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (5.73%) Regression Testing
10 10 (5.21%) People Management
10 10 (5.21%) Quality Management
10 10 (5.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (4.69%) Computer Science
11 9 (4.69%) Scrum
11 9 (4.69%) SDLC
11 9 (4.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.17%) Java
2 7 (3.65%) PHP
3 6 (3.13%) VB
3 6 (3.13%) VB6
4 5 (2.60%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.60%) Python
5 4 (2.08%) C
5 4 (2.08%) SQL
6 1 (0.52%) Ada
6 1 (0.52%) Bash
6 1 (0.52%) C#
6 1 (0.52%) C++
6 1 (0.52%) Groovy
6 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.52%) Perl
6 1 (0.52%) Scala
6 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (18.23%) Degree
2 10 (5.21%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.65%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.56%) HND
6 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.52%) HNC
7 1 (0.52%) ISEB
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) GxP
1 5 (2.60%) ISO 9001
1 5 (2.60%) PMO
2 4 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Ansible
1 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.52%) Packer
1 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.54%) NCR
3 3 (1.56%) Cadence
3 3 (1.56%) SAP
4 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.04%) Sybase
5 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.52%) Google
5 1 (0.52%) HP
5 1 (0.52%) IBM
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle
5 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.52%) VMware