QA Jobs in Oxfordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 12 34
Rank change year-on-year -30 +22 -5
Permanent jobs citing QA 75 210 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.46% 13.27% 7.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.05% 50.00% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41 55 66
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £23,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -30.16% +43.18%
75th Percentile £57,547 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,500 £95,000
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
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 214 420 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.72% 26.53% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 128 123 158
10th Percentile £24,025 £29,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,875 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £64,125 £76,000 £86,500
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 Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Oxfordshire

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Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Oxfordshire

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Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Salary histogram for QA in Oxfordshire

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Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -18 37 £54,500 -5.22% 5
Wallingford - 12 £36,500 - 2
Banbury - 10 £35,000 - 3
Abingdon -10 2 £57,028 -0.82% 4
Bicester -12 2 £55,000 -12.00%
Kidlington - 1 £44,000 - 1
QA
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (2.67%) Apache
1 2 (2.67%) CMS
1 2 (2.67%) Kinematics
1 2 (2.67%) nginx
1 2 (2.67%) WordPress
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.67%) AWS
2 18 (24.00%) Azure
3 16 (21.33%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (21.33%) GCP
4 9 (12.00%) SaaS
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) DNS
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
1 2 (2.67%) Internet
1 2 (2.67%) RFID
1 2 (2.67%) SSL
1 2 (2.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.33%) BigQuery
1 16 (21.33%) Data Warehouse
1 16 (21.33%) Looker
2 2 (2.67%) Big Data
2 2 (2.67%) MySQL
2 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Selenium
2 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (37.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.33%) Billing
4 15 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 14 (18.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (10.67%) Marketing
7 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.33%) Electronics
8 4 (5.33%) Games
9 3 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (4.00%) Law
10 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.33%) Automotive
11 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (21.33%) Data Manager
1 16 (21.33%) Engineering Manager
2 15 (20.00%) Analyst
3 12 (16.00%) QA Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Business Analyst
5 10 (13.33%) Senior
6 9 (12.00%) Operations Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) Operations Business Analyst
7 8 (10.67%) Quality Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) ERP Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) ERP Business Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Manufacturing Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Systems Manager
9 4 (5.33%) QA Test Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Test Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Development Manager
10 3 (4.00%) Service Analyst
10 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Support Analyst
10 3 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) HTML
2 10 (13.33%) XML
3 8 (10.67%) CSS
4 7 (9.33%) JSON
5 3 (4.00%) .NET
6 2 (2.67%) EDI
6 2 (2.67%) WPF
7 1 (1.33%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.33%) OAuth
7 1 (1.33%) Playwright
7 1 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Product Ownership
2 14 (18.67%) Biopharmaceutical
3 9 (12.00%) Virtual Team
4 8 (10.67%) Management Information System
5 5 (6.67%) Life Science
6 3 (4.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.67%) GNSS
7 2 (2.67%) IoT
7 2 (2.67%) Molecular Biology
7 2 (2.67%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
1 5 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.67%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (44.00%) Project Management
3 24 (32.00%) Agile
4 21 (28.00%) DevOps
5 19 (25.33%) CI/CD
5 19 (25.33%) Line Management
6 17 (22.67%) Product Backlog
6 17 (22.67%) Scrum
7 16 (21.33%) Backlog Management
7 16 (21.33%) Business Strategy
7 16 (21.33%) Data Engineering
7 16 (21.33%) Data Modelling
7 16 (21.33%) ETL
7 16 (21.33%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (17.33%) Validation
9 11 (14.67%) CRM
9 11 (14.67%) Neuroscience
10 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (13.33%) Project Delivery
10 10 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.33%) SQL
2 6 (8.00%) C#
3 5 (6.67%) Python
4 3 (4.00%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) C
5 2 (2.67%) C++
5 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.67%) PHP
5 2 (2.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 26 (34.67%) Degree
2 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) GxP
1 5 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (5.33%) GMP
3 3 (4.00%) ISO 9001
3 3 (4.00%) SLA
4 2 (2.67%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.33%) COSHH
5 1 (1.33%) GDPR
5 1 (1.33%) ISO 13485
5 1 (1.33%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Firmware
1 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Ansible
1 2 (2.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Google
2 8 (10.67%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.67%) Sun
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle