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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 51 87
Rank change year-on-year -2 +36 -3
Permanent jobs citing QA 166 149 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.20% 5.14% 3.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.88% 36.43% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 99 98 158
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,979 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £59,375 £76,250 £69,688
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,140
% change year-on-year -13.64% -0.25% +10.28%

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 490 409 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.40% 14.11% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 368 314 458
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,400 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -5.24% +1.94%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +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 5 May 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 5 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
Andover +12 55 £39,000 - 1
Fareham +29 32 £45,000 +23.29% 10
Basingstoke 0 27 £63,500 -15.33% 9
Portsmouth -9 12 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Southampton -22 10 £60,500 +10.00% 8
Farnborough +12 6 £72,500 +141.67% 1
Eastleigh - 3 - - 1
Winchester -17 2 £43,064 -4.30% 3
Romsey - 2 £58,750 - 2
Aldershot +4 1 £60,000 +26.32%
Petersfield 0 1 £57,500 +10.58%
Fleet -6 1 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Hook -10 1 - - 1
Waterlooville - 1 £24,150 -
Bordon - 1 - - 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 5 (3.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 26 (15.66%) SaaS
2 15 (9.04%) AWS
3 14 (8.43%) Azure
4 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (2.41%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.20%) Serverless
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.60%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.61%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.61%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.41%) Redis
4 2 (1.20%) Big Data
4 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (30.12%) Selenium
2 11 (6.63%) JIRA
3 7 (4.22%) Git
4 4 (2.41%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.41%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.20%) GitLab
5 2 (1.20%) JBehave
5 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.20%) JUnit
5 2 (1.20%) Postman
5 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.20%) TestRail
6 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
General
1 57 (34.34%) Manufacturing
2 53 (31.93%) Electronics
3 21 (12.65%) Social Skills
4 20 (12.05%) Aerospace
5 19 (11.45%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.42%) Finance
8 7 (4.22%) Marketing
9 5 (3.01%) Banking
10 3 (1.81%) Automotive
10 3 (1.81%) Legal
10 3 (1.81%) Local Government
11 2 (1.20%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.20%) Aviation
11 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (22.29%) Quality Engineer
2 25 (15.06%) QA Engineer
3 23 (13.86%) Automation Tester
3 23 (13.86%) Tester
4 19 (11.45%) Analyst
5 18 (10.84%) QC Engineer
6 15 (9.04%) Lead
7 14 (8.43%) Developer
7 14 (8.43%) Test Engineer
8 12 (7.23%) QA Analyst
9 11 (6.63%) Test Analyst
10 9 (5.42%) QA Leader
10 9 (5.42%) QA Technician
10 9 (5.42%) QA Test Analyst
10 9 (5.42%) Senior
10 9 (5.42%) Software Test Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) Test Leader
11 8 (4.82%) QA Manager
11 8 (4.82%) Quality Manager
11 8 (4.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.02%) AngularJS
1 10 (6.02%) React
2 7 (4.22%) .NET
3 6 (3.61%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.61%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (3.61%) CSS
3 6 (3.61%) HTML
3 6 (3.61%) Node.js
3 6 (3.61%) Vue
4 5 (3.01%) HTML5
4 5 (3.01%) jQuery
4 5 (3.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 4 (2.41%) Spring
6 3 (1.81%) RESTful
7 2 (1.20%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.20%) Kafka
7 2 (1.20%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.61%) Augmented Reality
1 6 (3.61%) Virtual Reality
2 5 (3.01%) N-Tier
2 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.81%) IoT
3 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.60%) LIMS
5 1 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (46.39%) Collaborative Working
2 56 (33.73%) Test Automation
3 55 (33.13%) FMEA
3 55 (33.13%) Internal Audit
3 55 (33.13%) Product Requirements
4 41 (24.70%) Agile
5 40 (24.10%) Mentoring
6 38 (22.89%) Test Scripting
7 32 (19.28%) Software Testing
8 30 (18.07%) Requirements Analysis
9 25 (15.06%) Test Assurance
10 24 (14.46%) Actionable Insight
11 23 (13.86%) Coaching
11 23 (13.86%) Technical Analysis
12 20 (12.05%) Test Strategy
13 19 (11.45%) E-Commerce
13 19 (11.45%) Web Testing
14 18 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (7.23%) Project Management
15 12 (7.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.27%) C#
2 19 (11.45%) Java
3 16 (9.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.42%) C
4 9 (5.42%) C++
4 9 (5.42%) Embedded C
5 8 (4.82%) Python
6 5 (3.01%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.86%) DV Cleared
3 21 (12.65%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.42%) Degree
5 8 (4.82%) ISEB
6 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.81%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.61%) Docker
2 4 (2.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.20%) Ansible
2 2 (1.20%) Podman
2 2 (1.20%) Puppet
2 2 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (2.41%) Google
1 4 (2.41%) Oracle
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.60%) SAP