QA Jobs in Northamptonshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 42 32 55
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 0
Permanent jobs citing QA 22 30 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.15% 5.61% 1.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 32.84% 22.22% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £14,500 £25,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £76,250 £89,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £118,750 £61,000
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £49,000 £46,085
% change year-on-year -8.16% +6.33% -2.98%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 67 135 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 9.60% 25.23% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 42 41 68
10th Percentile £24,240 £25,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £24,807 £42,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.79% +5.56% +16.50%
75th Percentile £44,100 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,500 £65,750
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Northamptonshire

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Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Northamptonshire

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Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Salary histogram for QA in Northamptonshire

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Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -13 15 £45,000 -44.62% 4
Kettering -1 5 - -
Daventry - 1 £35,000 -
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East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
1 12 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) BigQuery
1 8 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (36.36%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (36.36%) Billing
2 5 (22.73%) Retail
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Data Manager
1 8 (36.36%) Engineering Manager
2 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce Executive
2 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce Tester
2 5 (22.73%) QA Tester
2 5 (22.73%) Tester
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Full Stack Developer
4 2 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (9.09%) 1st Line Technical Support
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) QA Officer
5 1 (4.55%) Service Desk Team Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) GraphQL
1 4 (18.18%) NestJS
1 4 (18.18%) Next.js
1 4 (18.18%) Node.js
1 4 (18.18%) React
2 3 (13.64%) Apollo GraphQL
2 3 (13.64%) Jest
2 3 (13.64%) Redux
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Online Banking
3 2 (9.09%) iPhone
4 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Agile
2 13 (59.09%) Project Management
3 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (40.91%) Scrum
5 8 (36.36%) Backlog Management
5 8 (36.36%) Business Strategy
5 8 (36.36%) Data Engineering
5 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 8 (36.36%) ETL
5 8 (36.36%) Line Management
5 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (36.36%) Product Backlog
6 5 (22.73%) B2B
6 5 (22.73%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (22.73%) Backlog Refinement
6 5 (22.73%) Release Management
6 5 (22.73%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Google
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle