QA Jobs in Kent

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 25 62
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 -13
Permanent jobs citing QA 57 96 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 3.86% 8.39% 4.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.67% 35.96% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 40 7 12
10th Percentile £24,025 - £42,125
25th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £37,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -42.31% +44.44%
75th Percentile £68,125 £54,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £74,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 263 267 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 17.79% 23.34% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 195 73 105
10th Percentile £23,000 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £27,965 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £78,250
South East median annual salary £45,250 £50,173 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.81% -4.43% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Kent

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Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for QA in Kent

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Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Kent over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Kent

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Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 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
Tunbridge Wells - 13 £27,500 - 1
Tonbridge - 5 £32,500 - 1
West Malling -6 4 £37,000 -
Dartford - 4 - -
Broadstairs - 3 £22,000 -
Chatham - 2 £86,000 - 1
Sittingbourne - 2 £26,250 - 1
Whitstable - 2 £50,000 -
QA
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (7.02%) CMS
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (1.75%) AWS
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Power BI
1 9 (15.79%) Tableau
2 6 (10.53%) EDMS
3 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.02%) PowerPivot
5 2 (3.51%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) eggPlant
General
1 38 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (26.32%) Finance
3 15 (26.32%) Marketing
4 10 (17.54%) Legal
5 8 (14.04%) Manufacturing
6 6 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (7.02%) Police
8 2 (3.51%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.75%) Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (14.04%) Senior
2 6 (10.53%) Developer
2 6 (10.53%) Document Controller
2 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 5 (8.77%) Head of Engineering
4 4 (7.02%) Administrator
4 4 (7.02%) Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Head of QA
4 4 (7.02%) Head of Support
4 4 (7.02%) QA Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Quality Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Technologist
5 3 (5.26%) Digital Executive
5 3 (5.26%) IT Technician
5 3 (5.26%) QA Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Senior IT Technician
5 3 (5.26%) Senior Technician
6 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) QA Officer
6 2 (3.51%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) .NET
2 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Taxonomies
2 8 (14.04%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.53%) Housing Association
4 5 (8.77%) Mobile App
5 4 (7.02%) IoT
5 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.51%) Clustering
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (3.51%) Replication
7 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.82%) Computer Science
2 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (22.81%) Analytics
3 13 (22.81%) Decision-Making
4 11 (19.30%) Agile
4 11 (19.30%) Data Governance
4 11 (19.30%) Data Management
4 11 (19.30%) Data Modelling
4 11 (19.30%) Project Management
5 10 (17.54%) Coaching
5 10 (17.54%) Mathematics
5 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
5 10 (17.54%) Regulatory Compliance
6 9 (15.79%) Contract Negotiation
6 9 (15.79%) Culture Change
6 9 (15.79%) Data Acquisition
6 9 (15.79%) Data Analytics
6 9 (15.79%) Data Strategy
6 9 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 9 (15.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) SQL
2 5 (8.77%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) PL/1
4 3 (5.26%) C++
4 3 (5.26%) Java
4 3 (5.26%) VB
5 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (19.30%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Master's Degree
2 9 (15.79%) MBA
2 9 (15.79%) PhD
3 6 (10.53%) HNC
4 4 (7.02%) EMC Certification
5 1 (1.75%) ISEB
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) Data Quality
2 10 (17.54%) GDPR
3 9 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 9 (15.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle
2 4 (7.02%) EMC
3 1 (1.75%) Citrix
3 1 (1.75%) VMware