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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 22 49
Rank change year-on-year -44 +27 +14
Permanent jobs citing QA 3,055 8,370 8,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.56% 9.27% 6.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.60% 48.10% 37.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,056 2,508 3,976
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,938 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 11,934 17,400 21,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.91% 19.28% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8,387 8,044 11,660
10th Percentile £27,000 £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 £91,250 £93,750 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -45 805 £70,000 - 387
South East -29 696 £47,500 -13.64% 200
North of England -56 545 £47,500 -12.04% 252
Midlands -48 447 £49,000 -6.67% 190
South West -36 361 £47,500 - 133
North West -59 308 £47,500 -5.00% 125
West Midlands -47 273 £52,500 -4.55% 112
Yorkshire -47 182 £47,500 -13.64% 99
East Midlands -44 174 £47,500 -1.04% 78
East of England -65 167 £45,000 -5.26% 103
North East -57 55 £52,500 -8.70% 31
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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 48 (1.57%) Confluence
2 41 (1.34%) IIS
3 40 (1.31%) CMS
4 35 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 23 (0.75%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Drupal
7 17 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.43%) Documentum
9 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.26%) Apache Pig
10 8 (0.26%) WordPress
11 5 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.16%) Kinematics
11 5 (0.16%) nginx
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.13%) TWiki
12 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.098%) Smallworld
14 2 (0.065%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 146 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.33%) InfoPath
5 10 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.098%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.098%) Simulink
9 2 (0.065%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.065%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.033%) Notion
10 1 (0.033%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.033%) Sketch
10 1 (0.033%) UXPin
10 1 (0.033%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 35 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.43%) TrackWise
3 11 (0.36%) SAP QM
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 (0.065%) Endur
9 2 (0.065%) SAP MII
10 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 595 (19.48%) Azure
2 367 (12.01%) AWS
3 267 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
4 232 (7.59%) SaaS
5 173 (5.66%) GCP
6 93 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 68 (2.23%) Serverless
8 67 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
9 64 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
10 40 (1.31%) GitHub
11 28 (0.92%) Power Automate
12 24 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (0.69%) PaaS
13 21 (0.69%) PowerApps
14 20 (0.65%) 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%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (0.88%) Firewall
2 26 (0.85%) Internet
3 16 (0.52%) WAN
3 16 (0.52%) Wireless
4 12 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.36%) LAN
6 10 (0.33%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.26%) HTTP
7 8 (0.26%) VLAN
8 7 (0.23%) VoIP
8 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.20%) 5G
9 6 (0.20%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.20%) DNS
10 5 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (0.16%) GSM
10 5 (0.16%) PSTN
10 5 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (0.16%) UMTS
10 5 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 103 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (2.98%) Relational Database
4 75 (2.45%) Looker
5 70 (2.29%) BigQuery
6 66 (2.16%) Power BI
7 55 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 53 (1.73%) MySQL
9 40 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (0.92%) Tableau
11 26 (0.85%) Oracle Database
12 23 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.72%) Big Data
13 22 (0.72%) RDBMS
14 16 (0.52%) Hadoop
14 16 (0.52%) MongoDB
15 15 (0.49%) Apache Hive
15 15 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
16 13 (0.43%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 218 (7.14%) JIRA
2 217 (7.10%) Selenium
3 212 (6.94%) Git
4 132 (4.32%) Cucumber
5 104 (3.40%) Postman
6 103 (3.37%) Jenkins
7 82 (2.68%) Cypress.io
8 65 (2.13%) Visual Studio
9 54 (1.77%) Appium
10 31 (1.01%) Jasmine
10 31 (1.01%) SpecFlow
11 30 (0.98%) JUnit
12 29 (0.95%) TeamCity
13 27 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
14 26 (0.85%) JMeter
14 26 (0.85%) TestRail
15 24 (0.79%) GitLab
16 23 (0.75%) SoapUI
16 23 (0.75%) WebDriver
17 21 (0.69%) JDeveloper
General
1 943 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 472 (15.45%) Finance
3 457 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
4 440 (14.40%) Manufacturing
5 247 (8.09%) Pharmaceutical
6 195 (6.38%) Legal
7 170 (5.56%) Retail
8 143 (4.68%) Marketing
9 117 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 105 (3.44%) Electronics
11 96 (3.14%) Law
12 93 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
13 74 (2.42%) Public Sector
14 67 (2.19%) Billing
15 65 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
16 63 (2.06%) Aerospace
16 63 (2.06%) Telecoms
17 57 (1.87%) Banking
18 54 (1.77%) Front Office
19 45 (1.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 438 (14.34%) Developer
2 346 (11.33%) Lead
3 338 (11.06%) Senior
4 247 (8.09%) QA Manager
5 219 (7.17%) Analyst
6 194 (6.35%) QA Engineer
7 181 (5.92%) Software Engineer
8 148 (4.84%) Quality Manager
9 131 (4.29%) Project Manager
10 114 (3.73%) .NET Developer
11 105 (3.44%) Engineering Manager
12 92 (3.01%) QA Leader
13 91 (2.98%) Tester
14 88 (2.88%) Senior Developer
15 86 (2.82%) Quality Engineer
16 70 (2.29%) Data Manager
17 62 (2.03%) Software Developer
18 60 (1.96%) C# Developer
19 57 (1.87%) Architect
20 56 (1.83%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (11.23%) .NET
2 226 (7.40%) React
3 169 (5.53%) AngularJS
4 151 (4.94%) REST
5 145 (4.75%) HTML
6 142 (4.65%) CSS
7 122 (3.99%) ASP.NET
7 122 (3.99%) JSON
8 116 (3.80%) .NET Core
9 94 (3.08%) XML
10 93 (3.04%) .NET Framework
11 90 (2.95%) Web Services
12 85 (2.78%) Vue
13 77 (2.52%) RESTful
14 71 (2.32%) Node.js
15 67 (2.19%) Spring
16 64 (2.09%) jQuery
17 62 (2.03%) SOAP
18 57 (1.87%) Redux
19 42 (1.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 257 (8.41%) Management Information System
2 245 (8.02%) Product Ownership
3 90 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 79 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 55 (1.80%) Derivative
5 55 (1.80%) Hedge funds
6 47 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 45 (1.47%) Client/Server
7 45 (1.47%) Fixed Income
8 43 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 42 (1.37%) Equities
10 41 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 40 (1.31%) IoT
12 37 (1.21%) Life Science
13 35 (1.15%) Driving Licence
14 34 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
15 32 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 29 (0.95%) Algorithms
17 28 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (0.88%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 115 (3.76%) Windows
2 86 (2.82%) Linux
3 74 (2.42%) Android
4 53 (1.73%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.33%) Unix
7 9 (0.29%) 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 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.065%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.033%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (31.85%) Agile
2 698 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
3 559 (18.30%) DevOps
4 514 (16.82%) Test Automation
5 441 (14.44%) Project Management
6 409 (13.39%) Mentoring
7 378 (12.37%) Scrum
8 364 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 359 (11.75%) CI/CD
10 327 (10.70%) Coaching
11 314 (10.28%) Software Engineering
12 247 (8.09%) Computer Science
13 229 (7.50%) Software Testing
14 218 (7.14%) QMS
15 197 (6.45%) Roadmaps
16 193 (6.32%) Line Management
17 186 (6.09%) Project Delivery
18 185 (6.06%) SDLC
19 183 (5.99%) Test Strategy
20 176 (5.76%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 409 (13.39%) C#
2 403 (13.19%) JavaScript
3 349 (11.42%) SQL
4 271 (8.87%) Java
5 259 (8.48%) Python
6 157 (5.14%) TypeScript
7 71 (2.32%) C
8 56 (1.83%) PHP
9 54 (1.77%) C++
10 47 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 45 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 44 (1.44%) VB
13 37 (1.21%) Go
14 33 (1.08%) Ruby
14 33 (1.08%) VB.NET
14 33 (1.08%) VB6
15 25 (0.82%) Perl
16 24 (0.79%) Bash
17 22 (0.72%) PowerShell
18 21 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 597 (19.54%) Degree
2 157 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 145 (4.75%) Security Cleared
4 77 (2.52%) ISTQB
5 71 (2.32%) SC Cleared
6 54 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 51 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 40 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 34 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 33 (1.08%) ISEB
11 25 (0.82%) PMP
12 24 (0.79%) HNC
13 20 (0.65%) Azure Certification
14 18 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 17 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
16 15 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 14 (0.46%) CREST Certified
17 14 (0.46%) MBA
18 13 (0.43%) AAT
18 13 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (6.32%) GMP
2 49 (1.60%) Accessibility
2 49 (1.60%) Data Quality
3 45 (1.47%) PMO
4 42 (1.37%) ISO 9001
5 35 (1.15%) GDPR
5 35 (1.15%) Good Clinical Practice
6 29 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
7 26 (0.85%) GxP
8 22 (0.72%) SLA
9 21 (0.69%) ISO 13485
10 17 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 16 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.36%) ISO 14001
13 10 (0.33%) NEBOSH
14 9 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 9 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.29%) CDISC
14 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 109 (3.57%) Docker
2 27 (0.88%) Firmware
3 15 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.36%) Active Directory
6 8 (0.26%) HDFS
7 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.065%) Varnish
8 2 (0.065%) vSphere
9 1 (0.033%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 78 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.05%) Terraform
3 27 (0.88%) Ansible
4 12 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (0.29%) Puppet
6 6 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
6 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.13%) Kibana
8 3 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.098%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.098%) Packer
9 2 (0.065%) Grafana
9 2 (0.065%) Podman
10 1 (0.033%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.033%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.033%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.033%) SCCM
Vendors
1 436 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 156 (5.11%) Google
3 72 (2.36%) SAP
4 66 (2.16%) Oracle
5 37 (1.21%) ServiceNow
6 31 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 28 (0.92%) Databricks
8 27 (0.88%) NCR
9 19 (0.62%) Cisco
10 13 (0.43%) Adobe
10 13 (0.43%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.36%) Aderant
12 10 (0.33%) IBM
12 10 (0.33%) VMware
13 8 (0.26%) Marketo
13 8 (0.26%) QAD
14 7 (0.23%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.23%) HP
14 7 (0.23%) Xamarin
15 6 (0.20%) Intel