QA Jobs in Bristol

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 31 66
Rank change year-on-year -25 +35 +61
Permanent jobs citing QA 128 222 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 4.13% 8.36% 5.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.18% 45.40% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 94 49 114
10th Percentile £32,150 £31,250 £36,475
25th Percentile £43,125 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +20.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £54,222 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £62,500 £76,520
South West median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +7.91%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 489 489 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 15.77% 18.40% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 351 242 402
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £81,250 £90,000
South West median annual salary £50,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.88% +4.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Bristol

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Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for QA in Bristol

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Salary Histogram in Bristol

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

Salary histogram for QA in Bristol

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Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 6 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
Avonmouth - 1 £65,000 -
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (3.13%) CMS
1 4 (3.13%) Drupal
2 1 (0.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (7.81%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.38%) Azure
2 35 (27.34%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (23.44%) AWS
4 11 (8.59%) SaaS
5 10 (7.81%) GCP
6 5 (3.91%) IaaS
6 5 (3.91%) PaaS
7 3 (2.34%) Serverless
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.78%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.78%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.78%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 8 (6.25%) Looker
4 6 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.91%) Data Mining
6 3 (2.34%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.34%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.78%) Big Data
7 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.78%) MySQL
7 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (17.19%) Visual Studio
2 14 (10.94%) Git
3 13 (10.16%) Selenium
4 6 (4.69%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.91%) JIRA
6 4 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.13%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.34%) JDeveloper
8 2 (1.56%) Appium
8 2 (1.56%) JMeter
8 2 (1.56%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.78%) Gatling
9 1 (0.78%) JBehave
9 1 (0.78%) JUnit
9 1 (0.78%) Moq
9 1 (0.78%) Postman
9 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.78%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.88%) Manufacturing
3 17 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.59%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (6.25%) Billing
5 8 (6.25%) Legal
5 8 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.69%) Finance
6 6 (4.69%) Publishing
7 4 (3.13%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.34%) Automotive
8 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.34%) Local Government
8 3 (2.34%) Retail
9 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.56%) Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Games
9 2 (1.56%) Law
9 2 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (24.22%) Developer
2 26 (20.31%) Lead
3 19 (14.84%) .NET Developer
4 16 (12.50%) Senior
5 12 (9.38%) Engineering Manager
6 11 (8.59%) QA Leader
7 10 (7.81%) QA Manager
7 10 (7.81%) Quality Manager
7 10 (7.81%) Software Developer
7 10 (7.81%) Technologist
8 9 (7.03%) QA Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Data Manager
9 8 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.69%) .NET Software Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Senior .NET Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Senior .NET Software Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (3.91%) Associate Director
11 5 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Digital Analytics Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.09%) CSS
1 27 (21.09%) HTML
2 26 (20.31%) .NET
3 24 (18.75%) React
4 22 (17.19%) AngularJS
5 17 (13.28%) ASP.NET
6 16 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 16 (12.50%) jQuery
6 16 (12.50%) KnockoutJS
6 16 (12.50%) Vue
7 7 (5.47%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 6 (4.69%) WPF
8 6 (4.69%) XML
8 6 (4.69%) XSD
8 6 (4.69%) XSLT
9 5 (3.91%) Laravel
10 4 (3.13%) Node.js
10 4 (3.13%) Playwright
10 4 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.81%) Biopharmaceutical
3 6 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.69%) NHS
4 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.78%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.78%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.56%) Android
2 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (50.78%) Agile
2 47 (36.72%) DevOps
3 39 (30.47%) Scrum
4 35 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (17.97%) CI/CD
6 22 (17.19%) MVC
6 22 (17.19%) Test Automation
7 21 (16.41%) Design Patterns
8 18 (14.06%) Validation
9 16 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 15 (11.72%) Change Control
10 15 (11.72%) Project Management
10 15 (11.72%) Secure Coding
11 14 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (10.94%) ETL
12 13 (10.16%) Coaching
12 13 (10.16%) Computer Science
12 13 (10.16%) Mentoring
13 12 (9.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (29.69%) JavaScript
2 29 (22.66%) C#
3 10 (7.81%) TypeScript
4 9 (7.03%) Java
5 8 (6.25%) Python
6 7 (5.47%) SQL
7 5 (3.91%) PHP
7 5 (3.91%) Ruby
8 3 (2.34%) Bash
8 3 (2.34%) Go
8 3 (2.34%) Perl
9 2 (1.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.56%) Swift
10 1 (0.78%) R
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (22.66%) Degree
2 10 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.56%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.56%) MBA
4 2 (1.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) GMP
2 1 (0.78%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.78%) SLA
Vendors
1 23 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.81%) Google
2 10 (7.81%) SAP
3 7 (5.47%) Oracle
4 1 (0.78%) Databricks
4 1 (0.78%) Splunk