QA Jobs in Hampshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 50 57 93
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 -11
Permanent jobs citing QA 164 151 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.21% 5.12% 3.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.61% 35.78% 31.44%
Number of salaries quoted 97 98 153
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,979 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £74,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £68,000 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,070
% change year-on-year -13.64% -0.13% +10.14%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 488 422 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.53% 14.31% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 365 322 448
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,400 £25,350
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -5.24% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £75,375
South East median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Hampshire

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Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Hampshire

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Salary Histogram in Hampshire

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

Salary histogram for QA in Hampshire

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Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hampshire 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
Andover +13 55 £39,000 - 1
Fareham +27 32 £45,000 +23.29% 10
Basingstoke +2 27 £63,500 -15.33% 10
Portsmouth -4 12 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Southampton -24 9 £60,500 +10.00% 4
Farnborough +13 7 £72,500 +141.67% 1
Eastleigh - 3 - - 2
Fleet -7 2 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Winchester -14 2 £43,064 -4.30% 3
Aldershot +3 1 £60,000 +26.32%
Petersfield 0 1 £57,500 +10.58%
Romsey - 1 £57,500 - 3
Bordon - 1 - -
Waterlooville - 1 £24,150 - 1
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 26 (15.85%) SaaS
2 13 (7.93%) AWS
3 12 (7.32%) Azure
4 5 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.61%) CloudBees
7 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.61%) GitHub
7 1 (0.61%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.44%) Redis
2 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.61%) Big Data
3 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.61%) OLTP
3 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (29.88%) Selenium
2 11 (6.71%) JIRA
3 6 (3.66%) Git
4 4 (2.44%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.22%) JBehave
6 2 (1.22%) Postman
6 2 (1.22%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.61%) GitLab
7 1 (0.61%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 57 (34.76%) Manufacturing
2 53 (32.32%) Electronics
3 21 (12.80%) Social Skills
4 19 (11.59%) Aerospace
4 19 (11.59%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.88%) Finance
6 8 (4.88%) Marketing
7 5 (3.05%) Banking
8 3 (1.83%) Automotive
8 3 (1.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.22%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.22%) Aviation
9 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Local Government
9 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (22.56%) Quality Engineer
2 26 (15.85%) QA Engineer
3 23 (14.02%) Automation Tester
3 23 (14.02%) Tester
4 18 (10.98%) Analyst
4 18 (10.98%) QC Engineer
5 15 (9.15%) Lead
6 14 (8.54%) Test Engineer
7 13 (7.93%) Developer
8 12 (7.32%) QA Analyst
9 10 (6.10%) Test Analyst
10 9 (5.49%) QA Leader
10 9 (5.49%) QA Technician
10 9 (5.49%) QA Test Analyst
10 9 (5.49%) Senior
10 9 (5.49%) Software Test Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) Test Leader
11 8 (4.88%) QA Manager
11 8 (4.88%) Quality Manager
12 7 (4.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.49%) AngularJS
1 9 (5.49%) React
2 7 (4.27%) .NET
3 6 (3.66%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.66%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (3.66%) CSS
3 6 (3.66%) HTML
3 6 (3.66%) Vue
4 5 (3.05%) HTML5
4 5 (3.05%) jQuery
4 5 (3.05%) Node.js
4 5 (3.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.83%) Spring
6 2 (1.22%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.22%) RESTful
7 1 (0.61%) JSON
7 1 (0.61%) Kafka
7 1 (0.61%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.66%) Augmented Reality
1 6 (3.66%) Virtual Reality
2 5 (3.05%) N-Tier
2 5 (3.05%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.83%) IoT
3 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.22%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.61%) LIMS
5 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (46.34%) Collaborative Working
2 56 (34.15%) Test Automation
3 55 (33.54%) FMEA
3 55 (33.54%) Internal Audit
3 55 (33.54%) Product Requirements
4 42 (25.61%) Agile
5 39 (23.78%) Mentoring
6 38 (23.17%) Test Scripting
7 32 (19.51%) Software Testing
8 30 (18.29%) Requirements Analysis
9 24 (14.63%) Actionable Insight
9 24 (14.63%) Test Assurance
10 23 (14.02%) Coaching
10 23 (14.02%) Technical Analysis
11 21 (12.80%) Test Strategy
12 19 (11.59%) E-Commerce
12 19 (11.59%) Web Testing
13 18 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (7.32%) User Experience
15 11 (6.71%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.46%) C#
2 17 (10.37%) Java
3 15 (9.15%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.49%) C
4 9 (5.49%) C++
4 9 (5.49%) Embedded C
5 8 (4.88%) Python
6 4 (2.44%) SQL
7 1 (0.61%) COBOL
7 1 (0.61%) HLASM
7 1 (0.61%) REXX
7 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.02%) DV Cleared
3 21 (12.80%) ISTQB
4 8 (4.88%) Degree
4 8 (4.88%) ISEB
5 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.22%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.44%) Docker
1 4 (2.44%) Firmware
2 1 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Ansible
2 1 (0.61%) Podman
2 1 (0.61%) Puppet
2 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.83%) Google
1 3 (1.83%) Oracle
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.61%) SAP