QA Jobs in Somerset

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 25 27 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +12
Permanent jobs citing QA 37 46 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 5.15% 7.74% 5.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 32.74% 44.66% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 17
10th Percentile £13,500 £31,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £14,750 £37,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £36,875 £58,125 £58,750
90th Percentile £48,250 £68,000 £61,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +15.61%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 113 103 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 15.72% 17.34% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 73 62 39
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,385 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £57,000 £60,625 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,750
South West median annual salary £50,500 £51,918 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% +3.84% +9.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Somerset

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Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for QA in Somerset

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Salary Histogram in Somerset

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

Salary histogram for QA in Somerset

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Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Somerset 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
Shepton Mallet - 10 £30,000 -
Bridgwater - 9 £60,000 - 8
Bath -22 8 - - 5
Street - 2 £24,750 - 3
Taunton +3 1 £15,000 -40.00%
Templecombe - 1 - - 3
Weston-super-Mare - 1 £35,000 - 3
Clevedon - 1 £15,000 -
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (2.70%) CMS
1 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) AWS
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
1 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
1 8 (21.62%) GCP
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) BigQuery
1 8 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (21.62%) Looker
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) gulp
1 1 (2.70%) JMeter
1 1 (2.70%) Selenium
1 1 (2.70%) SilkPerformer
1 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Billing
3 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.41%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Advertising
5 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.70%) Aviation
5 1 (2.70%) Games
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Administrator
2 12 (32.43%) Technical Administrator
3 8 (21.62%) Data Manager
3 8 (21.62%) Engineering Manager
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Assistant
5 2 (5.41%) Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Quality Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Technologist
6 1 (2.70%) Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Auditor
6 1 (2.70%) DBA
6 1 (2.70%) IT Technician
6 1 (2.70%) Product Manager
6 1 (2.70%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) QA Manager
6 1 (2.70%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Quality Auditor
6 1 (2.70%) Systems Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.70%) CSS
1 1 (2.70%) HTML
1 1 (2.70%) jQuery
1 1 (2.70%) React
1 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) BBC
3 1 (2.70%) Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.03%) Internal Audit
3 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
3 9 (24.32%) Data Modelling
3 9 (24.32%) Project Management
4 8 (21.62%) Agile
4 8 (21.62%) Backlog Management
4 8 (21.62%) Business Strategy
4 8 (21.62%) Data Engineering
4 8 (21.62%) DevOps
4 8 (21.62%) ETL
4 8 (21.62%) Line Management
4 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (21.62%) Product Backlog
4 8 (21.62%) Scrum
5 3 (8.11%) Mathematics
6 2 (5.41%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.70%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.70%) PHP
2 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) GMP
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) ISO 13485
2 1 (2.70%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.70%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Google
2 1 (2.70%) Fujitsu
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.70%) Thales