QA Jobs in England

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 22 49
Rank change year-on-year -42 +27 +13
Permanent jobs citing QA 3,104 8,218 8,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.59% 9.28% 6.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.05% 48.17% 37.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,052 2,422 4,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,915 17,060 22,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.77% 19.27% 16.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,313 7,899 11,825
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in England

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Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
London -46 817 £67,500 -3.57% 471
South East -28 702 £47,500 -13.64% 284
North of England -59 553 £47,500 -13.64% 262
Midlands -43 467 £49,500 -5.71% 202
South West -30 362 £47,500 - 147
North West -56 311 £47,500 -5.00% 128
West Midlands -46 281 £52,500 -4.55% 126
East Midlands -39 186 £47,500 -1.04% 76
Yorkshire -50 186 £46,250 -15.91% 99
East of England -67 169 £45,000 +5.88% 124
North East -55 56 £52,500 -8.70% 41
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 50 (1.61%) Confluence
2 41 (1.32%) IIS
3 39 (1.26%) CMS
4 35 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 26 (0.84%) Apache
6 20 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.55%) Drupal
8 13 (0.42%) Documentum
9 11 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.26%) Apache Pig
10 8 (0.26%) WordPress
11 5 (0.16%) Kinematics
11 5 (0.16%) nginx
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.13%) TWiki
12 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.097%) Smallworld
14 2 (0.064%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 143 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.29%) InfoPath
7 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.097%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.097%) Simulink
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.064%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.032%) Notion
11 1 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.032%) Sketch
11 1 (0.032%) UXPin
11 1 (0.032%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 34 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.42%) TrackWise
3 10 (0.32%) SAP QM
4 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.26%) Shopify
5 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
5 5 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) Lawson
6 4 (0.13%) Magento
6 4 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.097%) Primavera
7 3 (0.097%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.097%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.097%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.064%) Endur
8 2 (0.064%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.064%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 612 (19.72%) Azure
2 376 (12.11%) AWS
3 271 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
4 233 (7.51%) SaaS
5 177 (5.70%) GCP
6 96 (3.09%) Power Platform
7 70 (2.26%) Serverless
8 66 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 64 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
10 39 (1.26%) GitHub
11 28 (0.90%) Power Automate
12 25 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (0.71%) PowerApps
14 21 (0.68%) Amazon S3
14 21 (0.68%) PaaS
15 14 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (0.45%) BrowserStack
16 13 (0.42%) Snowflake
17 11 (0.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (0.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (0.90%) Firewall
2 25 (0.81%) Internet
3 16 (0.52%) Wireless
4 15 (0.48%) WAN
5 11 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.32%) LAN
6 10 (0.32%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.26%) HTTP
7 8 (0.26%) VLAN
8 7 (0.23%) VoIP
8 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.19%) 5G
9 6 (0.19%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.19%) DNS
10 5 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (0.16%) GSM
10 5 (0.16%) ISDN
10 5 (0.16%) PSTN
10 5 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (0.16%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (7.28%) SQL Server
2 102 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (2.96%) Relational Database
4 74 (2.38%) Looker
5 70 (2.26%) BigQuery
6 67 (2.16%) Power BI
7 58 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 51 (1.64%) MySQL
9 38 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 27 (0.87%) Tableau
11 23 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (0.71%) Big Data
12 22 (0.71%) RDBMS
13 18 (0.58%) Apache Hive
14 15 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.45%) Hadoop
15 14 (0.45%) MongoDB
16 13 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.42%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 221 (7.12%) Selenium
2 219 (7.06%) JIRA
3 213 (6.86%) Git
4 125 (4.03%) Cucumber
5 103 (3.32%) Postman
6 100 (3.22%) Jenkins
7 83 (2.67%) Cypress.io
8 63 (2.03%) Visual Studio
9 55 (1.77%) Appium
10 35 (1.13%) SpecFlow
11 31 (1.00%) Jasmine
11 31 (1.00%) JUnit
12 29 (0.93%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.90%) JMeter
14 27 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
14 27 (0.87%) TestRail
15 25 (0.81%) GitLab
16 23 (0.74%) WebDriver
17 22 (0.71%) SoapUI
18 21 (0.68%) JDeveloper
General
1 946 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 468 (15.08%) Finance
3 464 (14.95%) Manufacturing
4 459 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
5 265 (8.54%) Pharmaceutical
6 208 (6.70%) Legal
7 196 (6.31%) Retail
8 147 (4.74%) Marketing
9 115 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 108 (3.48%) Electronics
11 98 (3.16%) Law
12 92 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
13 75 (2.42%) Public Sector
14 72 (2.32%) Aerospace
15 67 (2.16%) Billing
16 64 (2.06%) Telecoms
17 55 (1.77%) Banking
17 55 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
18 54 (1.74%) Front Office
19 46 (1.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 436 (14.05%) Developer
2 352 (11.34%) Lead
3 350 (11.28%) Senior
4 260 (8.38%) QA Manager
5 224 (7.22%) Analyst
6 195 (6.28%) QA Engineer
7 183 (5.90%) Software Engineer
8 157 (5.06%) Quality Manager
9 131 (4.22%) Project Manager
10 112 (3.61%) .NET Developer
11 105 (3.38%) Engineering Manager
12 93 (3.00%) QA Leader
12 93 (3.00%) Tester
13 89 (2.87%) Senior Developer
14 87 (2.80%) Quality Engineer
15 71 (2.29%) Data Manager
16 65 (2.09%) Business Analyst
17 63 (2.03%) QA Specialist
18 61 (1.97%) C# Developer
18 61 (1.97%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (11.24%) .NET
2 226 (7.28%) React
3 170 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 147 (4.74%) REST
5 145 (4.67%) HTML
6 141 (4.54%) CSS
7 117 (3.77%) ASP.NET
7 117 (3.77%) JSON
8 114 (3.67%) .NET Core
9 94 (3.03%) XML
10 90 (2.90%) .NET Framework
11 86 (2.77%) Web Services
12 84 (2.71%) Vue
13 75 (2.42%) RESTful
14 71 (2.29%) Node.js
15 68 (2.19%) Spring
16 65 (2.09%) jQuery
17 62 (2.00%) SOAP
18 54 (1.74%) Redux
19 43 (1.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 261 (8.41%) Management Information System
2 248 (7.99%) Product Ownership
3 90 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (2.58%) Mobile App
5 55 (1.77%) Derivative
5 55 (1.77%) Hedge funds
6 45 (1.45%) Client/Server
6 45 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (1.42%) Fixed Income
8 42 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 41 (1.32%) Equities
10 40 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 40 (1.29%) IoT
11 39 (1.26%) Life Science
12 36 (1.16%) Driving Licence
12 36 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 34 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (0.97%) Algorithms
15 29 (0.93%) Biopharmaceutical
16 28 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 119 (3.83%) Windows
2 86 (2.77%) Linux
3 70 (2.26%) Android
4 50 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 17 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.32%) Unix
7 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.16%) VMS
10 4 (0.13%) AIX
11 3 (0.097%) Debian
12 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.064%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.032%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 984 (31.70%) Agile
2 701 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 562 (18.11%) DevOps
4 520 (16.75%) Test Automation
5 442 (14.24%) Project Management
6 421 (13.56%) Mentoring
7 383 (12.34%) Scrum
8 369 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 366 (11.79%) CI/CD
10 357 (11.50%) Coaching
11 315 (10.15%) Software Engineering
12 249 (8.02%) Computer Science
12 249 (8.02%) Software Testing
13 240 (7.73%) QMS
14 215 (6.93%) Line Management
15 207 (6.67%) Roadmaps
16 204 (6.57%) SDLC
17 188 (6.06%) Project Delivery
18 183 (5.90%) Collaborative Working
19 177 (5.70%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 406 (13.08%) JavaScript
2 405 (13.05%) C#
3 347 (11.18%) SQL
4 280 (9.02%) Java
5 260 (8.38%) Python
6 156 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 70 (2.26%) C
8 56 (1.80%) PHP
9 53 (1.71%) Kotlin
10 52 (1.68%) C++
11 44 (1.42%) VB
12 43 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 38 (1.22%) Go
14 33 (1.06%) Ruby
14 33 (1.06%) VB.NET
14 33 (1.06%) VB6
15 26 (0.84%) Scala
16 25 (0.81%) Bash
16 25 (0.81%) Perl
17 22 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 632 (20.36%) Degree
2 160 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 151 (4.86%) Security Cleared
4 77 (2.48%) ISTQB
5 74 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 52 (1.68%) DBS Check
8 48 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 34 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 33 (1.06%) ISEB
11 25 (0.81%) PMP
12 23 (0.74%) HNC
13 19 (0.61%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
15 15 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 14 (0.45%) CREST Certified
16 14 (0.45%) MBA
17 13 (0.42%) AAT
17 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (6.89%) GMP
2 51 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 49 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.42%) PMO
5 43 (1.39%) ISO 9001
6 35 (1.13%) GDPR
6 35 (1.13%) Good Clinical Practice
7 31 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
8 26 (0.84%) GxP
9 22 (0.71%) SLA
10 21 (0.68%) ISO 13485
11 17 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 14 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.39%) ISO 14001
14 10 (0.32%) NEBOSH
15 9 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 9 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.29%) CDISC
15 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (3.41%) Docker
2 28 (0.90%) Firmware
3 21 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.32%) Active Directory
6 8 (0.26%) HDFS
7 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.064%) Varnish
8 2 (0.064%) vSphere
9 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 79 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.29%) Terraform
3 27 (0.87%) Ansible
4 12 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (0.29%) Puppet
6 6 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
6 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.13%) Kibana
8 3 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.097%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.097%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.097%) Packer
9 2 (0.064%) Grafana
9 2 (0.064%) Podman
10 1 (0.032%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.032%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.032%) SCCM
Vendors
1 444 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 161 (5.19%) Google
3 71 (2.29%) SAP
4 67 (2.16%) Oracle
5 38 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 29 (0.93%) Databricks
8 27 (0.87%) NCR
9 19 (0.61%) Cisco
10 13 (0.42%) Adobe
10 13 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.35%) Aderant
12 10 (0.32%) IBM
12 10 (0.32%) VMware
13 8 (0.26%) Marketo
13 8 (0.26%) QAD
14 7 (0.23%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.23%) HP
14 7 (0.23%) Xamarin
15 6 (0.19%) Bloomberg