QA Jobs in Belfast

Quality Assurance (QA)
County Antrim > Belfast

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 70 52
Rank change year-on-year +40 -18 -25
Permanent jobs citing QA 32 24 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 6.32% 3.23% 3.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 62.75% 47.06% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 10
10th Percentile £55,400 £53,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,875 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +12.55% +44.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 - -
County Antrim median annual salary £63,150 £65,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -2.85% +23.22% +31.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 51 51 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 10.08% 6.85% 11.30%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 38
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,556 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,996 £41,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,800 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% +9.29% +14.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £77,875 £68,375
County Antrim median annual salary £48,454 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.09% +11.11% +12.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Belfast

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Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for QA in Belfast

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Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Belfast over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (53.13%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.75%) HTTP
2 6 (18.75%) MQTT
2 6 (18.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) Relational Database
2 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
3 3 (9.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) JDeveloper
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Electronics
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Software Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Software Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
5 4 (12.50%) Quality Manager
6 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 3 (9.38%) Ruby Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Oracle Business Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) QA Specialist
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (6.25%) User Researcher
8 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) Node.js
2 11 (34.38%) Web Services
3 6 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 6 (18.75%) Kafka
3 6 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (18.75%) RESTful
4 5 (15.63%) FFmpeg
4 5 (15.63%) GStreamer
4 5 (15.63%) OpenCV
4 5 (15.63%) REST
5 3 (9.38%) React
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (3.13%) .NET
7 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Video\Live Streaming
2 6 (18.75%) IoT
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Embedded Linux
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 17 (53.13%) Computer Science
3 15 (46.88%) Agile
4 14 (43.75%) Open Source
5 11 (34.38%) Analytics
5 11 (34.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (34.38%) Asynchronous Programming
5 11 (34.38%) Computer Vision
5 11 (34.38%) Deep Learning
5 11 (34.38%) Multithreading
5 11 (34.38%) Threat Analysis
6 9 (28.13%) Microservices
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (18.75%) Data Analytics
7 6 (18.75%) Product Management
8 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.63%) User Stories
8 5 (15.63%) Video Analytics
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) Python
2 14 (43.75%) Bash
3 9 (28.13%) Perl
4 6 (18.75%) C
4 6 (18.75%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) Go
5 3 (9.38%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.38%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) Degree
2 11 (34.38%) Master's Degree
2 11 (34.38%) PhD
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) JTAG
2 2 (6.25%) GMP
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Firmware
2 5 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Google
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft