QA Jobs in the East of England

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 83 11 37
Rank change year-on-year -72 +26 +40
Permanent jobs citing QA 169 775 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.79% 14.02% 6.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.64% 62.45% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 96 59 154
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,500 £75,875
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 of England

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 of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 659 1,241 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 10.89% 22.45% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 456 264 521
10th Percentile £24,823 £26,075 £29,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for QA in the East of England

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for QA in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire -38 50 £43,750 +2.94% 26
Essex -10 36 £37,500 -43.18% 13
Norfolk -20 36 £40,000 - 16
Hertfordshire -82 23 £55,000 +37.50% 36
Suffolk -10 20 £36,500 -43.85% 4
Bedfordshire -42 4 £45,000 -25.00% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (2.96%) CMS
2 3 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 42 (24.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.59%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.78%) AWS
2 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (1.18%) Azure
2 2 (1.18%) Serverless
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.59%) GitHub
3 1 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (0.59%) SaaS
3 1 (0.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
1 1 (0.59%) LAN
1 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.37%) MySQL
2 3 (1.78%) EDMS
3 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (8.88%) JIRA
2 8 (4.73%) Appium
2 8 (4.73%) UI Automator
3 5 (2.96%) Git
4 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.18%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.18%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.18%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.59%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.59%) GitLab
6 1 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 61 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.93%) Legal
3 24 (14.20%) Finance
4 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.28%) Automotive
6 11 (6.51%) Aerospace
7 10 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.92%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.73%) Back Office
9 7 (4.14%) Local Government
9 7 (4.14%) Marketing
9 7 (4.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (4.14%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.55%) Electronics
10 6 (3.55%) Retail
11 5 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.78%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.78%) Welsh Language
13 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (13.02%) QA Manager
2 21 (12.43%) Lead
3 19 (11.24%) Team Leader
4 18 (10.65%) Quality Manager
5 11 (6.51%) Senior
6 10 (5.92%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.33%) Analyst
8 8 (4.73%) Head of Test
8 8 (4.73%) Head of Testing
8 8 (4.73%) QA Leader
8 8 (4.73%) QA Team Leader
8 8 (4.73%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) QA Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) Test Manager
9 7 (4.14%) Testing Manager
10 6 (3.55%) Developer
10 6 (3.55%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (2.96%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) Service Desk Team Leader
12 4 (2.37%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.14%) CSS
1 7 (4.14%) HTML
2 6 (3.55%) .NET
3 4 (2.37%) JSON
3 4 (2.37%) REST
4 2 (1.18%) CSS3
4 2 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.18%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.18%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.18%) HTML5
4 2 (1.18%) jQuery
4 2 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.18%) Spring
4 2 (1.18%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.18%) Spring MVC
4 2 (1.18%) Swing
4 2 (1.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.18%) Web Services
4 2 (1.18%) XML
5 1 (0.59%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.92%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.55%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.55%) Smartphone
3 5 (2.96%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.96%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (2.96%) Robotics
4 4 (2.37%) Blog
4 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.78%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.78%) Derivative
5 3 (1.78%) FMCG
5 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.18%) PMI
6 2 (1.18%) Wiki
7 1 (0.59%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.59%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.92%) Linux
2 9 (5.33%) Windows
3 8 (4.73%) Mac OS
4 6 (3.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.18%) Android
5 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (21.30%) Coaching
2 35 (20.71%) Time Management
3 31 (18.34%) Agile
4 28 (16.57%) Mentoring
5 25 (14.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 20 (11.83%) Line Management
7 19 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.24%) Test Automation
8 18 (10.65%) Customer Service
9 17 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (9.47%) Project Management
11 11 (6.51%) Process Improvement
12 10 (5.92%) People Management
12 10 (5.92%) Quality Management
13 9 (5.33%) Computer Science
13 9 (5.33%) Regression Testing
13 9 (5.33%) Scrum
13 9 (5.33%) SDLC
13 9 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.14%) Java
1 7 (4.14%) PHP
2 6 (3.55%) VB
2 6 (3.55%) VB6
3 5 (2.96%) Python
4 4 (2.37%) C
5 2 (1.18%) Groovy
5 2 (1.18%) Perl
5 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.59%) Ada
6 1 (0.59%) C++
6 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.59%) Scala
6 1 (0.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (22.49%) Degree
2 10 (5.92%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.78%) HND
6 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) HNC
7 1 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.96%) GxP
2 5 (2.96%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.37%) PMO
4 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
5 1 (0.59%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.18%) Ansible
1 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.18%) Packer
1 2 (1.18%) Terraform
2 1 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 34 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.38%) NCR
3 3 (1.78%) Cadence
4 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.18%) IBM
4 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.18%) Sybase
5 1 (0.59%) Google
5 1 (0.59%) HP
5 1 (0.59%) VMware