QA Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 79 33 49
Rank change year-on-year -46 +16 +10
Permanent jobs citing QA 50 98 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.55% 7.06% 5.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.08% 39.20% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 29 23 56
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -12.66% +4.09%
75th Percentile £56,500 £58,750 £76,563
90th Percentile £60,500 £62,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,070
% change year-on-year -13.64% -0.13% +10.14%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 311 250 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 15.85% 18.01% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 186 103 170
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,350
25th Percentile £32,813 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £57,250 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £74,750 £78,750
South East median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary histogram for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Milton Keynes +10 42 £47,500 -5.00% 12
Gerrards Cross +4 3 £26,000 -
High Wycombe -2 2 £55,000 +71.88% 3
Marlow -14 2 - - 1
Aylesbury -6 1 - -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (54.00%) Azure
2 21 (42.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (24.00%) AWS
4 8 (16.00%) GCP
5 5 (10.00%) SaaS
6 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.00%) Asana
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (4.00%) Basecamp
7 2 (4.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) 5G
1 5 (10.00%) Bluetooth
1 5 (10.00%) GSM
1 5 (10.00%) ISDN
1 5 (10.00%) LTE
1 5 (10.00%) PSTN
1 5 (10.00%) UMTS
1 5 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (10.00%) Wireless
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (16.00%) BigQuery
2 8 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (16.00%) Looker
3 3 (6.00%) EDRMS
4 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Selenium
2 11 (22.00%) NUnit
2 11 (22.00%) Visual Studio
3 9 (18.00%) WebDriver
4 5 (10.00%) LabVIEW
5 3 (6.00%) Git
6 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.00%) JIRA
6 2 (4.00%) Postman
7 1 (2.00%) Appium
7 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.00%) JMeter
7 1 (2.00%) JUnit
7 1 (2.00%) Mockito
7 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (16.00%) Billing
4 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.00%) Retail
5 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.00%) Marketing
8 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Analyst
2 8 (16.00%) Data Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Engineering Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Test Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) QA Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Automation Test Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Hardware Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Junior
6 3 (6.00%) Junior Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) QA Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Quality Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Systems Developer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.00%) .NET
2 12 (24.00%) JSON
3 9 (18.00%) .NET Core
3 9 (18.00%) XML
4 2 (4.00%) CSS
4 2 (4.00%) HTML
5 1 (2.00%) Playwright
5 1 (2.00%) Spring
5 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.00%) Web Services
5 1 (2.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.00%) Acoustics
2 5 (10.00%) Satnav
3 3 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.00%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.00%) FMCG
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Android
2 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) Agile
2 24 (48.00%) DevOps
3 20 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
5 13 (26.00%) Manual Testing
5 13 (26.00%) Scrum
6 12 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (24.00%) Integration Testing
7 11 (22.00%) Analytics
8 10 (20.00%) Backlog Management
8 10 (20.00%) Business Strategy
8 10 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 10 (20.00%) Microservices
8 10 (20.00%) Product Backlog
8 10 (20.00%) Project Management
9 9 (18.00%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (18.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (18.00%) SDET
9 9 (18.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) C#
2 12 (24.00%) SQL
3 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (2.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.00%) ISEB
4 1 (2.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Ansible
2 3 (6.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Google
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft