QA Jobs in England

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 66 21 51
Rank change year-on-year -45 +30 +14
Permanent jobs citing QA 3,047 8,866 7,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.59% 9.51% 6.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.77% 48.40% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,060 2,656 4,035
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,150 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,826 18,317 21,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.94% 19.65% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,354 8,390 11,772
10th Percentile £27,015 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,915 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in England

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Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA in England

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Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for QA in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the 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
London -43 809 £70,000 - 373
South East -26 686 £47,500 -13.64% 213
North of England -59 542 £47,500 -13.64% 256
Midlands -51 430 £47,500 -9.52% 180
South West -33 371 £50,000 +5.26% 126
North West -55 306 £47,500 -9.52% 128
West Midlands -48 263 £50,000 -9.09% 110
Yorkshire -50 180 £47,500 -9.52% 97
East of England -72 169 £45,000 -11.76% 100
East Midlands -46 166 £45,000 -8.16% 70
North East -53 56 £52,500 -8.70% 39
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 46 (1.51%) Confluence
2 42 (1.38%) CMS
3 40 (1.31%) IIS
4 37 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 23 (0.75%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Drupal
7 17 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.33%) Documentum
10 8 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.26%) Apache Pig
10 8 (0.26%) WordPress
11 6 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.16%) nginx
13 4 (0.13%) Moodle
13 4 (0.13%) TWiki
13 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.098%) Smallworld
15 2 (0.066%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 152 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.49%) InfoPath
6 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.098%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.098%) Simulink
10 2 (0.066%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.066%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.033%) Doxygen
11 1 (0.033%) Notion
11 1 (0.033%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) UXPin
11 1 (0.033%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 37 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.43%) SAP QM
2 13 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.33%) TrackWise
4 8 (0.26%) Shopify
5 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 5 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Lawson
7 4 (0.13%) Magento
7 4 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.098%) Primavera
8 3 (0.098%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.098%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.098%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.066%) SAP MII
10 1 (0.033%) CA PPM
10 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 605 (19.86%) Azure
2 369 (12.11%) AWS
3 276 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
4 229 (7.52%) SaaS
5 173 (5.68%) GCP
6 95 (3.12%) Power Platform
7 68 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
8 67 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 66 (2.17%) Serverless
10 38 (1.25%) GitHub
11 32 (1.05%) Power Automate
12 22 (0.72%) PaaS
12 22 (0.72%) PowerApps
13 21 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (0.56%) Amazon S3
15 14 (0.46%) BrowserStack
15 14 (0.46%) Snowflake
16 13 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (0.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (0.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (0.75%) Firewall
1 23 (0.75%) Internet
2 16 (0.53%) WAN
3 15 (0.49%) Wireless
4 11 (0.36%) LAN
4 11 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.33%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.23%) VLAN
6 7 (0.23%) VoIP
6 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.20%) DNS
7 6 (0.20%) HTTP
8 5 (0.16%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.16%) GSM
8 5 (0.16%) ISDN
8 5 (0.16%) LTE
8 5 (0.16%) PSTN
8 5 (0.16%) UMTS
8 5 (0.16%) VPN
8 5 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 104 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 74 (2.43%) Looker
5 69 (2.26%) BigQuery
6 68 (2.23%) Power BI
7 53 (1.74%) MySQL
8 51 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 42 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (0.89%) Tableau
11 26 (0.85%) Oracle Database
12 22 (0.72%) RDBMS
13 19 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 17 (0.56%) MongoDB
15 16 (0.53%) Big Data
15 16 (0.53%) Hadoop
16 15 (0.49%) Apache Hive
17 14 (0.46%) Redis
18 13 (0.43%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 221 (7.25%) Selenium
2 215 (7.06%) JIRA
3 207 (6.79%) Git
4 141 (4.63%) Cucumber
5 117 (3.84%) Jenkins
6 111 (3.64%) Postman
7 89 (2.92%) Cypress.io
8 66 (2.17%) Visual Studio
9 53 (1.74%) Appium
10 31 (1.02%) Jasmine
10 31 (1.02%) SpecFlow
11 29 (0.95%) TeamCity
12 28 (0.92%) JMeter
12 28 (0.92%) JUnit
13 27 (0.89%) Karma Test Runner
14 26 (0.85%) GitLab
15 23 (0.75%) SoapUI
16 22 (0.72%) TestRail
16 22 (0.72%) WebDriver
17 21 (0.69%) JDeveloper
General
1 933 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 473 (15.52%) Finance
3 454 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 421 (13.82%) Manufacturing
5 227 (7.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 190 (6.24%) Legal
7 164 (5.38%) Retail
8 135 (4.43%) Marketing
9 118 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 101 (3.31%) Electronics
11 94 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 89 (2.92%) Law
13 74 (2.43%) Public Sector
14 67 (2.20%) Billing
15 64 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 61 (2.00%) Telecoms
17 60 (1.97%) Aerospace
18 55 (1.81%) Banking
19 53 (1.74%) Front Office
20 44 (1.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 459 (15.06%) Developer
2 353 (11.59%) Lead
3 341 (11.19%) Senior
4 229 (7.52%) QA Manager
5 216 (7.09%) Analyst
6 198 (6.50%) QA Engineer
7 178 (5.84%) Software Engineer
8 138 (4.53%) Quality Manager
9 125 (4.10%) Project Manager
10 123 (4.04%) .NET Developer
11 104 (3.41%) Engineering Manager
12 98 (3.22%) Tester
13 95 (3.12%) QA Leader
14 93 (3.05%) Senior Developer
15 84 (2.76%) Quality Engineer
16 71 (2.33%) Architect
16 71 (2.33%) Data Manager
17 64 (2.10%) Software Developer
18 58 (1.90%) C# Developer
18 58 (1.90%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (11.55%) .NET
2 227 (7.45%) React
3 174 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 165 (5.42%) REST
5 151 (4.96%) HTML
6 146 (4.79%) CSS
7 130 (4.27%) ASP.NET
8 119 (3.91%) JSON
9 112 (3.68%) .NET Core
10 96 (3.15%) XML
11 92 (3.02%) Web Services
12 90 (2.95%) .NET Framework
13 88 (2.89%) Vue
14 72 (2.36%) RESTful
15 68 (2.23%) Node.js
15 68 (2.23%) Spring
16 62 (2.03%) jQuery
16 62 (2.03%) SOAP
17 61 (2.00%) Redux
18 43 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 254 (8.34%) Management Information System
2 245 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 91 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 73 (2.40%) Mobile App
5 54 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (1.77%) Hedge funds
6 53 (1.74%) Derivative
7 49 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 46 (1.51%) Client/Server
8 46 (1.51%) Equities
8 46 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 44 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 36 (1.18%) IoT
11 34 (1.12%) Driving Licence
11 34 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 29 (0.95%) Algorithms
13 28 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (0.92%) Life Science
14 27 (0.89%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 114 (3.74%) Windows
2 88 (2.89%) Linux
3 71 (2.33%) Android
4 51 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.33%) Unix
7 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) VMS
10 4 (0.13%) AIX
10 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.098%) Debian
12 2 (0.066%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 985 (32.33%) Agile
2 696 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
3 577 (18.94%) DevOps
4 521 (17.10%) Test Automation
5 437 (14.34%) Project Management
6 414 (13.59%) Mentoring
7 374 (12.27%) CI/CD
8 367 (12.04%) Scrum
9 361 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 313 (10.27%) Coaching
11 312 (10.24%) Software Engineering
12 250 (8.20%) Computer Science
13 234 (7.68%) Software Testing
14 200 (6.56%) QMS
15 194 (6.37%) Roadmaps
16 193 (6.33%) Test Strategy
17 191 (6.27%) Project Delivery
18 186 (6.10%) SDLC
19 182 (5.97%) Line Management
20 172 (5.64%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 422 (13.85%) JavaScript
2 418 (13.72%) C#
3 356 (11.68%) SQL
4 276 (9.06%) Java
5 265 (8.70%) Python
6 160 (5.25%) TypeScript
7 69 (2.26%) C
8 59 (1.94%) PHP
9 52 (1.71%) T-SQL
10 51 (1.67%) C++
11 44 (1.44%) Kotlin
11 44 (1.44%) VB
12 39 (1.28%) Go
13 35 (1.15%) Ruby
14 33 (1.08%) VB.NET
14 33 (1.08%) VB6
15 26 (0.85%) Perl
15 26 (0.85%) PowerShell
16 23 (0.75%) Bash
17 21 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 592 (19.43%) Degree
2 158 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 158 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 80 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 79 (2.59%) ISTQB
5 52 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 50 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 43 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 34 (1.12%) ISEB
9 32 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.79%) HNC
11 23 (0.75%) PMP
12 20 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 17 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
14 16 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 14 (0.46%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.46%) MBA
16 13 (0.43%) AAT
16 13 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.68%) GMP
2 55 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 51 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.48%) PMO
5 39 (1.28%) ISO 9001
6 34 (1.12%) GDPR
7 32 (1.05%) Good Clinical Practice
8 27 (0.89%) SLA
8 27 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
9 22 (0.72%) GxP
10 21 (0.69%) ISO 13485
11 18 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 10 (0.33%) ISO 14001
13 10 (0.33%) NEBOSH
14 9 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 9 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.30%) CDISC
14 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 115 (3.77%) Docker
2 23 (0.75%) Firmware
3 14 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.36%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.26%) HDFS
7 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.066%) Varnish
8 2 (0.066%) vSphere
9 1 (0.033%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 81 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.05%) Terraform
3 24 (0.79%) Ansible
4 10 (0.33%) Puppet
5 9 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
7 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.16%) Packer
9 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.13%) Kibana
10 3 (0.098%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.098%) Grafana
10 3 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.066%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.033%) Consul
12 1 (0.033%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.033%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.033%) Podman
12 1 (0.033%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.033%) SCCM
Vendors
1 439 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 155 (5.09%) Google
3 70 (2.30%) SAP
4 62 (2.03%) Oracle
5 34 (1.12%) ServiceNow
6 31 (1.02%) Databricks
6 31 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 27 (0.89%) NCR
8 19 (0.62%) Cisco
9 15 (0.49%) Adobe
9 15 (0.49%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.39%) Dell
11 11 (0.36%) Aderant
11 11 (0.36%) IBM
12 10 (0.33%) VMware
13 8 (0.26%) Marketo
14 7 (0.23%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.23%) HP
14 7 (0.23%) Twitter
14 7 (0.23%) Xamarin