QA Jobs in the East Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 56 10 39
Rank change year-on-year -46 +29 +6
Permanent jobs citing QA 166 436 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.85% 15.17% 6.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 30.57% 60.30% 33.53%
Number of salaries quoted 128 136 169
10th Percentile £34,250 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,000 £46,085
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +6.33% -2.98%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,625 £63,750
England median annual salary £53,150 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.42% - +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 543 723 668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.58% 25.16% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 374 244 448
10th Percentile £24,240 £25,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,992 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £54,594 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Salary histogram for QA in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the East Midlands 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
Derbyshire -16 45 £47,500 +11.76% 16
Leicestershire -62 41 £40,000 -9.09% 20
Nottinghamshire -36 32 £60,000 -7.69% 18
Lincolnshire -25 23 £42,500 -11.46% 10
Northamptonshire -10 22 £45,000 -21.74% 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (3.61%) IIS
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (10.24%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.20%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 46 (27.71%) Azure
2 22 (13.25%) AWS
3 20 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.63%) GCP
4 11 (6.63%) SaaS
5 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.41%) Serverless
6 3 (1.81%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (1.20%) PaaS
8 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.60%) FinancialForce
8 1 (0.60%) GitHub
8 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.42%) Firewall
2 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.20%) Broadband
3 2 (1.20%) LAN
3 2 (1.20%) WAN
3 2 (1.20%) Wireless
4 1 (0.60%) Modbus
4 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.25%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.82%) BigQuery
3 8 (4.82%) Looker
4 3 (1.81%) MySQL
4 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (8.43%) Git
2 8 (4.82%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (3.61%) Jasmine
3 6 (3.61%) JIRA
3 6 (3.61%) Karma Test Runner
3 6 (3.61%) Selenium
3 6 (3.61%) SoapUI
3 6 (3.61%) TestRail
4 4 (2.41%) JMeter
5 3 (1.81%) gulp
5 3 (1.81%) JDeveloper
6 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.60%) Appium
7 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.60%) Gatling
7 1 (0.60%) JBehave
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.64%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.63%) Retail
5 8 (4.82%) Billing
5 8 (4.82%) Legal
6 7 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.01%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.01%) Finance
7 5 (3.01%) Law
8 4 (2.41%) Banking
9 3 (1.81%) iGaming
9 3 (1.81%) Marketing
10 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (23.49%) QA Manager
2 27 (16.27%) Developer
3 18 (10.84%) Lead
4 15 (9.04%) Quality Manager
5 12 (7.23%) QA Leader
6 11 (6.63%) C# Developer
6 11 (6.63%) Senior
7 8 (4.82%) Data Manager
7 8 (4.82%) Engineering Manager
7 8 (4.82%) Test Leader
8 7 (4.22%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Web Developer
9 6 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.61%) Software Developer
9 6 (3.61%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.04%) REST
2 14 (8.43%) React
3 13 (7.83%) .NET
3 13 (7.83%) SOAP
4 9 (5.42%) Sass
5 8 (4.82%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.22%) ASP.NET
6 7 (4.22%) Node.js
7 6 (3.61%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.61%) JSON
7 6 (3.61%) RxJS
7 6 (3.61%) Web Services
7 6 (3.61%) XML
7 6 (3.61%) XML Schema
8 5 (3.01%) Next.js
9 4 (2.41%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.41%) NestJS
10 3 (1.81%) Apollo GraphQL
10 3 (1.81%) Blazor
10 3 (1.81%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.02%) e-Learning
3 10 (6.02%) Learning Management System
4 7 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.61%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.41%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.41%) Online Banking
7 3 (1.81%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.20%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.20%) IoT
8 2 (1.20%) iPhone
9 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.60%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.60%) SCADA
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.43%) Linux
2 5 (3.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.90%) Agile
2 41 (24.70%) DevOps
2 41 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (15.66%) Test Automation
4 25 (15.06%) Project Management
5 22 (13.25%) CI/CD
6 21 (12.65%) Mathematics
7 19 (11.45%) Coaching
8 18 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (10.84%) Scrum
9 17 (10.24%) Customer Service
10 16 (9.64%) Manual Testing
11 15 (9.04%) QMS
12 12 (7.23%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (6.63%) SDLC
13 11 (6.63%) Validation
14 10 (6.02%) Data Engineering
14 10 (6.02%) Line Management
14 10 (6.02%) Mentoring
14 10 (6.02%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.05%) C#
2 19 (11.45%) JavaScript
3 12 (7.23%) SQL
4 11 (6.63%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.82%) Java
6 7 (4.22%) VB
7 6 (3.61%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.61%) VB.NET
7 6 (3.61%) VB6
8 5 (3.01%) Python
9 4 (2.41%) C
9 4 (2.41%) Ruby
10 3 (1.81%) Bash
10 3 (1.81%) C++
10 3 (1.81%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.81%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.81%) Go
10 3 (1.81%) Perl
10 3 (1.81%) PHP
11 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (10.84%) Degree
2 9 (5.42%) DBS Check
3 8 (4.82%) ISEB
3 8 (4.82%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.41%) AAT
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.01%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.60%) TickIT
System Software
1 9 (5.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.61%) Ansible
2 6 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.81%) Terraform
4 1 (0.60%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.02%) Google
3 6 (3.61%) Minitab
4 4 (2.41%) Oracle
5 2 (1.20%) Adobe
6 1 (0.60%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.60%) Pardot
6 1 (0.60%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.60%) Siemens