QA Jobs in County Antrim

Quality Assurance (QA)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 75 49
Rank change year-on-year +38 -26 -23
Permanent jobs citing QA 37 24 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 5.88% 3.00% 3.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 56.92% 42.11% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 12
10th Percentile - £53,750 £31,375
25th Percentile £38,750 £56,875 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,150 £65,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% +23.22% +31.88%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,000 - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +3.85% +23.22% +24.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 65 57 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 10.33% 7.12% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 22 38 41
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,435 £40,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,454 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £72,625 -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £54,408 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% +11.11% +5.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in County Antrim

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Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for QA in County Antrim

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Salary Histogram in County Antrim

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in County Antrim over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in County Antrim

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Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 28 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
Belfast +40 32 £67,500 +3.85% 16
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Northern Ireland

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (18.92%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (8.11%) Serverless
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (45.95%) TCP/IP
2 6 (16.22%) HTTP
2 6 (16.22%) MQTT
2 6 (16.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Relational Database
2 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
2 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
1 6 (16.22%) Visual Studio
2 3 (8.11%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) JDeveloper
General
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Electronics
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Software Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Software Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Software Developer
4 5 (13.51%) .NET Developer
4 5 (13.51%) .NET Software Developer
4 5 (13.51%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (13.51%) C# Developer
4 5 (13.51%) C# Software Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Engineering Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Quality Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Ruby Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Oracle Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) Web Services
2 15 (40.54%) Node.js
3 11 (29.73%) AngularJS
4 6 (16.22%) .NET
4 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET
4 6 (16.22%) Kafka
4 6 (16.22%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (16.22%) RESTful
5 5 (13.51%) .NET Framework
5 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (13.51%) CSS
5 5 (13.51%) Entity Framework
5 5 (13.51%) FFmpeg
5 5 (13.51%) GStreamer
5 5 (13.51%) HTML
5 5 (13.51%) HTML5
5 5 (13.51%) jQuery
5 5 (13.51%) OpenCV
5 5 (13.51%) REST
5 5 (13.51%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Video\Live Streaming
2 6 (16.22%) IoT
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Embedded Linux
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Software Engineering
2 17 (45.95%) Computer Science
3 15 (40.54%) Agile
4 14 (37.84%) Open Source
5 11 (29.73%) Analytics
5 11 (29.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (29.73%) Asynchronous Programming
5 11 (29.73%) Computer Vision
5 11 (29.73%) Deep Learning
5 11 (29.73%) Multithreading
5 11 (29.73%) Threat Analysis
6 9 (24.32%) Microservices
7 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (16.22%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (16.22%) Data Analytics
7 6 (16.22%) Product Management
8 5 (13.51%) Epics
8 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.51%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) Bash
3 9 (24.32%) Perl
4 6 (16.22%) C
4 6 (16.22%) C#
4 6 (16.22%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) Go
5 3 (8.11%) Java
5 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.11%) Ruby
6 1 (2.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (51.35%) Degree
2 11 (29.73%) Master's Degree
2 11 (29.73%) PhD
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) JTAG
2 2 (5.41%) GMP
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Firmware
2 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Google
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle