QA Jobs in the South West

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 61 35 54
Rank change year-on-year -26 +19 +71
Permanent jobs citing QA 386 480 460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.67% 7.41% 5.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 30.56% 41.03% 31.19%
Number of salaries quoted 209 122 255
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,050 £39,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,750 £57,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,263 1,170 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.02% 18.06% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 803 647 851
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,093 £38,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £82,500
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 South West

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the South West.

Salary trend for QA in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South West 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
Bristol -22 121 £55,000 +10.00% 29
Wiltshire -6 67 £30,000 -40.00% 24
Gloucestershire -15 66 £35,000 -17.65% 29
Dorset -41 57 £47,500 - 6
Somerset -1 41 £30,000 -33.33% 25
Devon -20 17 £26,500 -30.52% 15
Cornwall -9 9 £26,000 -35.00% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (2.07%) Confluence
2 5 (1.30%) CMS
3 4 (1.04%) Drupal
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) SAS
4 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.55%) InfoPath
5 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.52%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.30%) SAP QM
2 3 (0.78%) Q-Pulse
3 1 (0.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 93 (24.09%) Azure
2 72 (18.65%) AWS
3 61 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (8.55%) GCP
5 13 (3.37%) SaaS
6 8 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.55%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.30%) IaaS
8 5 (1.30%) PaaS
9 4 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.04%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.52%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.52%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) Firewall
2 2 (0.52%) VoIP
3 1 (0.26%) BGP
3 1 (0.26%) HSRP
3 1 (0.26%) Intranet
3 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.29%) BigQuery
2 32 (8.29%) Looker
3 25 (6.48%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.07%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.30%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.04%) Power BI
6 4 (1.04%) Tableau
7 2 (0.52%) Big Data
7 2 (0.52%) MySQL
7 2 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (6.99%) JIRA
2 25 (6.48%) Selenium
3 23 (5.96%) Git
4 20 (5.18%) Visual Studio
5 11 (2.85%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.33%) Postman
6 9 (2.33%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.07%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.81%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.30%) JMeter
10 4 (1.04%) Appium
10 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.04%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.78%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.52%) GitLab
12 2 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.52%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 102 (26.42%) Manufacturing
2 87 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 59 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 32 (8.29%) Billing
6 21 (5.44%) Finance
7 19 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.66%) Retail
9 13 (3.37%) Law
10 11 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.85%) Legal
11 10 (2.59%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.59%) Marketing
12 9 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.07%) Military
14 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.55%) Electronics
14 6 (1.55%) Publishing
15 5 (1.30%) Games
16 4 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (15.03%) Senior
2 44 (11.40%) Developer
3 41 (10.62%) QA Engineer
4 36 (9.33%) Engineering Manager
5 32 (8.29%) Data Manager
6 30 (7.77%) Quality Engineer
7 29 (7.51%) Lead
8 26 (6.74%) Quality Manager
9 25 (6.48%) QA Manager
10 24 (6.22%) QA Specialist
11 20 (5.18%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 19 (4.92%) .NET Developer
12 19 (4.92%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.66%) Administrator
14 14 (3.63%) QA Officer
15 13 (3.37%) Project Manager
16 12 (3.11%) QA Leader
16 12 (3.11%) Technical Administrator
17 11 (2.85%) Senior Developer
18 10 (2.59%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.10%) React
2 35 (9.07%) AngularJS
3 31 (8.03%) CSS
3 31 (8.03%) HTML
4 28 (7.25%) .NET
5 16 (4.15%) ASP.NET
5 16 (4.15%) Spring
5 16 (4.15%) Vue
6 15 (3.89%) ASP.NET MVC
6 15 (3.89%) jQuery
7 14 (3.63%) KnockoutJS
7 14 (3.63%) REST
8 9 (2.33%) .NET Framework
8 9 (2.33%) Gherkin
9 8 (2.07%) XML
10 6 (1.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 6 (1.55%) WPF
10 6 (1.55%) XSD
10 6 (1.55%) XSLT
11 5 (1.30%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.18%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.33%) Mobile App
2 9 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.07%) FMCG
4 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.55%) NHS
5 5 (1.30%) Biopharmaceutical
5 5 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.04%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.78%) Acoustics
7 3 (0.78%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.78%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.52%) AS400
8 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.52%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.52%) Replication
8 2 (0.52%) Robotics
9 1 (0.26%) Clustering
9 1 (0.26%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.66%) Windows
2 12 (3.11%) Linux
3 4 (1.04%) AIX
4 3 (0.78%) Android
4 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (32.38%) Agile
2 115 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (20.47%) DevOps
3 79 (20.47%) Scrum
4 58 (15.03%) Project Management
5 57 (14.77%) Line Management
6 51 (13.21%) CI/CD
7 48 (12.44%) Mentoring
8 43 (11.14%) ETL
9 37 (9.59%) Coaching
9 37 (9.59%) Product Backlog
10 36 (9.33%) Backlog Management
10 36 (9.33%) Data Modelling
10 36 (9.33%) Test Automation
11 35 (9.07%) Business Strategy
12 32 (8.29%) CAPA
12 32 (8.29%) Data Engineering
12 32 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (8.03%) Supplier Management
14 30 (7.77%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 53 (13.73%) JavaScript
2 30 (7.77%) Java
3 28 (7.25%) Python
4 27 (6.99%) C#
5 20 (5.18%) SQL
6 12 (3.11%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.55%) C
7 6 (1.55%) PHP
8 4 (1.04%) VBA
9 3 (0.78%) Ruby
10 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.52%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.52%) Swift
11 1 (0.26%) C++
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (24.35%) Degree
2 24 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.07%) ISTQB
5 7 (1.81%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.30%) ISEB
7 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.78%) CSPO
8 3 (0.78%) IIBA
8 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.52%) MBA
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CCNP
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.26%) MCSA
10 1 (0.26%) MCSD
10 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.26%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.18%) GMP
2 13 (3.37%) ISO 13485
3 10 (2.59%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.78%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.78%) IEC 61508
4 3 (0.78%) SLA
5 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.26%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (1.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.26%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.07%) Google
3 6 (1.55%) Oracle
4 5 (1.30%) SAP
5 4 (1.04%) ConnectWise
5 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.78%) Twitter
7 2 (0.52%) Fujitsu
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.26%) Facebook
8 1 (0.26%) Instagram
8 1 (0.26%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.26%) Thales
8 1 (0.26%) VMware