QA Jobs in Essex

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 39 29 55
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 -4
Permanent jobs citing QA 36 76 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 4.10% 8.84% 4.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.27% 62.81% 23.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23 3 11
10th Percentile £21,650 £63,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £64,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £66,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +32.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £46,297 £78,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,500 -
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +2.00% +5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 123 121 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 14.01% 14.07% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 94 27 58
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £30,975
25th Percentile £27,965 £35,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 £66,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.74% +25.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,250 - £77,500
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Essex

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Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for QA in Essex

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Salary Histogram in Essex

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

Salary histogram for QA in Essex

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Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Essex 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
Chelmsford +5 8 £45,949 -29.31% 2
Tilbury - 8 - -
Harlow - 7 £36,500 -
Southend-on-Sea +10 3 £38,000 -56.57%
Brentwood - 3 - - 6
Colchester 0 2 £39,500 -40.15%
Saffron Walden - 2 £27,500 -
Halstead - 1 £37,500 -
Wickford - 1 £90,000 -
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (13.89%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
1 2 (5.56%) AWS
1 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Local Government
5 6 (16.67%) Back Office
6 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (13.89%) Marketing
7 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
7 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (8.33%) Legal
8 3 (8.33%) Retail
9 1 (2.78%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Analyst
2 4 (11.11%) Operations Manager
2 4 (11.11%) Solutions Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Compliance Manager
4 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Digital Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Head of Programme Management
4 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) QA Manager
4 2 (5.56%) QA Officer
4 2 (5.56%) Software Tester
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Assistant
4 2 (5.56%) Tester
5 1 (2.78%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Service Desk Team Leader
5 1 (2.78%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) CSS
1 5 (13.89%) HTML
2 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.56%) JSON
2 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.11%) Blog
2 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Process Improvement
2 8 (22.22%) Analytics
2 8 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
2 8 (22.22%) Inventory Control
2 8 (22.22%) Inventory Management
2 8 (22.22%) Operations Management
2 8 (22.22%) Planning and Forecasting
2 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.22%) Six Sigma
2 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 7 (19.44%) Agile
3 7 (19.44%) Mathematics
3 7 (19.44%) Time Management
4 6 (16.67%) Coaching
4 6 (16.67%) Logistics
5 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.89%) Project Management
5 5 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Java
1 3 (8.33%) PHP
2 2 (5.56%) Groovy
2 2 (5.56%) Perl
2 2 (5.56%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.78%) HNC
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.56%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Ansible
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.56%) Packer
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) AppDynamics
1 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
1 2 (5.56%) IBM