QA Jobs in Birmingham

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 57 17 73
Rank change year-on-year -40 +56 +6
Permanent jobs citing QA 97 204 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.58% 10.11% 4.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.94% 42.50% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 90 82 110
10th Percentile £37,500 £22,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,438 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,700 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% +27.91% -9.47%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,949 £61,019
90th Percentile £90,750 £100,000 £69,325
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -9.09% +18.99% +2.72%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 389 480 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.36% 23.80% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 307 302 376
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,625 £31,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +9.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,888 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,891 £83,625 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £51,375 £47,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% +9.31% -1.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Birmingham

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Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for QA in Birmingham

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Salary Histogram in Birmingham

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

Salary histogram for QA in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 11 (11.34%) IIS
2 3 (3.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.68%) Azure
2 18 (18.56%) AWS
3 16 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (13.40%) SaaS
5 6 (6.19%) GCP
6 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.12%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.06%) Matillion
9 1 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) HTTP
1 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.12%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.06%) Looker
3 2 (2.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Cucumber
1 9 (9.28%) Jasmine
2 7 (7.22%) Git
3 6 (6.19%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (6.19%) Postman
3 6 (6.19%) TeamCity
4 5 (5.15%) Karma Test Runner
4 5 (5.15%) Selenium
5 3 (3.09%) JIRA
5 3 (3.09%) JMeter
6 2 (2.06%) gulp
7 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.03%) NUnit
7 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Finance
3 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (11.34%) Retail
6 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.15%) Banking
7 5 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.12%) Legal
8 4 (4.12%) Police
8 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.06%) iGaming
10 2 (2.06%) Marketing
11 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Lead
2 18 (18.56%) Developer
3 11 (11.34%) Analyst
3 11 (11.34%) Senior
4 9 (9.28%) QA Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Tester
6 7 (7.22%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) C# Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (6.19%) Team Leader
7 6 (6.19%) Web Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Agile Tester
8 5 (5.15%) QA Tester
9 4 (4.12%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Development Manager
9 4 (4.12%) IT Development Manager
9 4 (4.12%) IT Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Test Team Leader
9 4 (4.12%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.53%) .NET
2 11 (11.34%) ASP.NET
3 10 (10.31%) Node.js
4 9 (9.28%) Spring
4 9 (9.28%) Spring Boot
5 8 (8.25%) React
5 8 (8.25%) Web Services
5 8 (8.25%) XML
6 7 (7.22%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.22%) Sass
7 6 (6.19%) CSS
7 6 (6.19%) HTML
7 6 (6.19%) Jest
7 6 (6.19%) JSON
7 6 (6.19%) RESTful
7 6 (6.19%) SOAP
7 6 (6.19%) XML Schema
8 5 (5.15%) .NET Core
8 5 (5.15%) REST
8 5 (5.15%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.31%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.12%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.03%) CCTV
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.03%) FMCG
6 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) VMS
1 4 (4.12%) Windows
2 2 (2.06%) Android
2 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.02%) Agile
2 30 (30.93%) DevOps
3 26 (26.80%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (26.80%) Test Automation
4 23 (23.71%) Mentoring
4 23 (23.71%) Software Testing
5 22 (22.68%) CI/CD
5 22 (22.68%) Scrum
6 21 (21.65%) User Experience
7 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (18.56%) Test Strategy
9 16 (16.49%) Functional Testing
10 15 (15.46%) Coaching
11 13 (13.40%) Non-Functional Testing
11 13 (13.40%) Project Delivery
11 13 (13.40%) Software Delivery
12 12 (12.37%) TDD
13 10 (10.31%) Collaborative Culture
13 10 (10.31%) Performance Tuning
14 9 (9.28%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.71%) JavaScript
2 17 (17.53%) C#
3 14 (14.43%) SQL
4 12 (12.37%) Java
4 12 (12.37%) TypeScript
5 9 (9.28%) VB
6 8 (8.25%) Python
7 5 (5.15%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.15%) VB.NET
7 5 (5.15%) VB6
8 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.06%) PHP
9 2 (2.06%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (18.56%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.12%) AAT
3 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.12%) CREST Certified
4 3 (3.09%) CITP
4 3 (3.09%) CSPO
4 3 (3.09%) IIBA
4 3 (3.09%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.09%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.09%) SLA
2 2 (2.06%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.19%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.12%) Databricks
5 3 (3.09%) Salesforce