QA Jobs in Essex

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 26 56
Rank change year-on-year -22 +30 -5
Permanent jobs citing QA 30 72 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 3.13% 9.24% 4.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.04% 63.16% 28.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23 3 13
10th Percentile £21,650 £63,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £64,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £66,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +32.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £46,297 £81,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,500 £67,000
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -9.52%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 107 114 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 11.16% 14.63% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 84 26 64
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £33,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,875 - £76,375
East of England median annual salary £44,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.48% +15.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Essex

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Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for QA in Essex

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Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Essex over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Essex

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Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Essex region over the 6 months to 12 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
Chelmsford +11 8 £45,949 -29.31% 4
Harlow - 7 £36,500 -
Colchester 0 3 £39,500 -40.15% 5
Brentwood - 3 - - 3
Southend-on-Sea +12 2 £38,000 -
Tilbury - 2 - -
Saffron Walden - 2 £27,500 -
Halstead - 1 £37,500 -
Wickford - 1 £90,000 -
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (16.67%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.33%) AWS
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) EDMS
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Local Government
4 6 (20.00%) Back Office
5 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (16.67%) Marketing
6 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (10.00%) Legal
7 3 (10.00%) Retail
8 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Solutions Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Compliance Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Digital Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Head of Programme Management
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Operations Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) QA Manager
4 2 (6.67%) QA Officer
4 2 (6.67%) Software Tester
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Assistant
4 2 (6.67%) Tester
5 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) CSS
1 6 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) Vue
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Blog
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
1 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.67%) PMI
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
2 6 (20.00%) Agile
2 6 (20.00%) Analytics
3 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 5 (16.67%) Project Management
3 5 (16.67%) Time Management
3 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (13.33%) Data Management
4 4 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (13.33%) Logistics
4 4 (13.33%) Performance Management
4 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (10.00%) Document Management
5 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.67%) Intelligent Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) PHP
2 2 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Groovy
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) Perl
3 1 (3.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) HNC
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) PMO
2 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Ansible
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Packer
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (3.33%) IBM