QA Jobs in Staffordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 28 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -9
Permanent jobs citing QA 54 39 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.05% 7.34% 5.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.00% 35.78% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 35 18 21
10th Percentile - - £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £22,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £61,500 £53,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £68,250 £65,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 200 109 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 18.71% 20.53% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 155 83 61
10th Percentile £23,700 £28,000 £25,125
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,000 £29,096
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,882 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £55,750 £58,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,750 £51,226 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.98% +7.84% +2.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Staffordshire

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Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Staffordshire

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Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Staffordshire

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Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Stoke-on-Trent +12 36 £32,882 -26.93% 14
Burton-upon-Trent -2 7 £100,000 +90.48% 2
Leek 0 3 - -
Cannock - 3 £45,000 -
Tamworth -16 2 £32,500 -7.14%
Burntwood - 1 £42,500 -
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West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (9.26%) Azure
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.41%) AWS
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) SD-WAN
1 3 (5.56%) VLAN
1 3 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Metadata
1 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.70%) Power BI
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
General
1 25 (46.30%) Manufacturing
1 25 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Finance
4 3 (5.56%) Police
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) QA Manager
1 9 (16.67%) Quality Manager
2 6 (11.11%) Head of Development
2 6 (11.11%) Head of Software Development
3 5 (9.26%) Product Manager
3 5 (9.26%) Support Officer
4 4 (7.41%) Senior
4 4 (7.41%) Senior Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Senior Product Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Bid Manager
6 2 (3.70%) QA Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Support Analyst
7 1 (1.85%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Software Tester
7 1 (1.85%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Test Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.70%) PACS
3 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) CCTV
4 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) QMS
2 14 (25.93%) Agile
3 10 (18.52%) ITSM
4 9 (16.67%) DevOps
5 8 (14.81%) Digital Strategy
5 8 (14.81%) Roadmaps
5 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (12.96%) Project Management
6 7 (12.96%) Service Delivery
7 6 (11.11%) B2C
7 6 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 6 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.11%) E-Commerce
7 6 (11.11%) Manual Testing
7 6 (11.11%) Performance Management
7 6 (11.11%) Product Management
7 6 (11.11%) SDLC
8 5 (9.26%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (9.26%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.70%) Ladder Logic
1 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.70%) Python
1 2 (3.70%) SQL
2 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Degree
2 5 (9.26%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.70%) APMP
3 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.93%) GMP
2 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (9.26%) GDPR
3 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (3.70%) IEC 61131
4 2 (3.70%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Avaya
2 3 (5.56%) Cisco
2 3 (5.56%) SolarWinds
2 3 (5.56%) Zscaler
3 2 (3.70%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.70%) Siemens