QA Jobs in the Thames Valley

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 22 50
Rank change year-on-year -46 +28 -10
Permanent jobs citing QA 239 548 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.56% 9.17% 5.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.43% 41.61% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 135 140 211
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,688 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £56,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £92,500
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
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 940 1,317 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.98% 22.04% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 544 511 642
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -11.82% -
75th Percentile £63,748 £66,250 £73,688
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire -27 111 £50,000 -9.09% 26
Oxfordshire -29 79 £52,293 -7.03% 25
Buckinghamshire -47 49 £47,500 +9.33% 22
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (2.09%) Kinematics
1 5 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.67%) CMS
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) nginx
3 2 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 64 (26.78%) Azure
2 55 (23.01%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (14.23%) AWS
4 24 (10.04%) GCP
5 19 (7.95%) SaaS
6 10 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.09%) GitHub
9 4 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.67%) Serverless
10 3 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.84%) Asana
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.84%) Basecamp
11 2 (0.84%) Smartsheet
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.42%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.42%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.09%) 5G
2 5 (2.09%) Bluetooth
2 5 (2.09%) Firewall
2 5 (2.09%) GSM
2 5 (2.09%) Internet
2 5 (2.09%) ISDN
2 5 (2.09%) LTE
2 5 (2.09%) PSTN
2 5 (2.09%) RFID
2 5 (2.09%) UMTS
2 5 (2.09%) Wireless
3 3 (1.26%) DNS
3 3 (1.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.84%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) MQTT
5 1 (0.42%) RS-485
5 1 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.04%) BigQuery
1 24 (10.04%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (10.04%) Looker
2 19 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.09%) Big Data
5 3 (1.26%) EDRMS
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.26%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.84%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.84%) MySQL
6 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.37%) Selenium
2 15 (6.28%) Git
3 13 (5.44%) JIRA
4 12 (5.02%) WebDriver
5 11 (4.60%) NUnit
5 11 (4.60%) Visual Studio
6 9 (3.77%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.77%) TestRail
7 8 (3.35%) Jenkins
8 6 (2.51%) Bugzilla
8 6 (2.51%) Zephyr
9 5 (2.09%) LabVIEW
10 4 (1.67%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.26%) JDeveloper
12 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.84%) Postman
12 2 (0.84%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.42%) Appium
13 1 (0.42%) Mockito
13 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 88 (36.82%) Social Skills
2 77 (32.22%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (13.81%) Retail
4 32 (13.39%) Manufacturing
5 25 (10.46%) Billing
6 17 (7.11%) Finance
6 17 (7.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (5.44%) Legal
8 11 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.60%) Marketing
9 10 (4.18%) Electronics
10 9 (3.77%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.93%) Back Office
11 7 (2.93%) Police
12 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.51%) Multimedia
13 5 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.67%) Games
15 3 (1.26%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 32 (13.39%) Analyst
2 29 (12.13%) QA Engineer
3 26 (10.88%) Data Manager
4 25 (10.46%) Engineering Manager
5 24 (10.04%) Developer
6 16 (6.69%) Lead
7 15 (6.28%) Quality Manager
7 15 (6.28%) Senior
8 14 (5.86%) Software Developer
8 14 (5.86%) Test Analyst
9 12 (5.02%) Business Analyst
9 12 (5.02%) Quality Engineer
9 12 (5.02%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.18%) Operations Analyst
10 10 (4.18%) Operations Business Analyst
10 10 (4.18%) Systems Developer
11 9 (3.77%) Administrator
11 9 (3.77%) QA Technician
11 9 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (3.35%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.23%) .NET
2 23 (9.62%) .NET Core
3 21 (8.79%) JSON
4 17 (7.11%) CSS
5 16 (6.69%) XML
6 14 (5.86%) Web Services
7 10 (4.18%) HTML
8 7 (2.93%) Playwright
9 6 (2.51%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.09%) React
10 5 (2.09%) WPF
11 4 (1.67%) Middleware
12 3 (1.26%) Node.js
13 2 (0.84%) EDI
13 2 (0.84%) Jest
14 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
14 1 (0.42%) OAuth
14 1 (0.42%) RESTful
14 1 (0.42%) Spring
14 1 (0.42%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.95%) Management Information System
3 16 (6.69%) Biopharmaceutical
4 11 (4.60%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.77%) IoT
5 9 (3.77%) Life Science
6 8 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.51%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.51%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.51%) Learning Management System
7 6 (2.51%) SCORM
8 5 (2.09%) Acoustics
8 5 (2.09%) GNSS
8 5 (2.09%) Satnav
9 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.26%) Pharmacovigilance
10 3 (1.26%) SCADA
10 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.93%) Linux
2 4 (1.67%) Windows
3 3 (1.26%) Android
3 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (39.33%) Agile
2 72 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (28.45%) DevOps
4 59 (24.69%) Project Management
5 50 (20.92%) Test Automation
6 43 (17.99%) Scrum
7 40 (16.74%) CI/CD
8 28 (11.72%) Line Management
9 27 (11.30%) Backlog Management
9 27 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (11.30%) Product Backlog
10 26 (10.88%) Business Strategy
10 26 (10.88%) Data Modelling
11 25 (10.46%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (10.04%) Data Engineering
12 24 (10.04%) ETL
13 21 (8.79%) Test Scripting
14 20 (8.37%) Analytics
14 20 (8.37%) Manual Testing
15 19 (7.95%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.74%) C#
2 36 (15.06%) SQL
3 26 (10.88%) JavaScript
4 15 (6.28%) Python
5 9 (3.77%) Java
6 8 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.51%) C
7 6 (2.51%) C++
7 6 (2.51%) VB.NET
8 5 (2.09%) XAML
9 4 (1.67%) Perl
10 3 (1.26%) Bash
10 3 (1.26%) Go
10 3 (1.26%) PHP
10 3 (1.26%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) Groovy
11 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (30.54%) Degree
2 17 (7.11%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.44%) ISTQB
4 9 (3.77%) DBS Check
4 9 (3.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 8 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.84%) ISEB
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.60%) ISO 9001
2 8 (3.35%) ISO 14001
3 7 (2.93%) ISO 22301
3 7 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.93%) NEBOSH
4 6 (2.51%) GxP
4 6 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.67%) GMP
6 3 (1.26%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.84%) GRC
7 2 (0.84%) PMO
7 2 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.42%) COSHH
8 1 (0.42%) GDPR
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 8 (3.35%) Firmware
2 6 (2.51%) Docker
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.51%) Ansible
3 5 (2.09%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (1.67%) Terraform
5 3 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.04%) Google
3 9 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.51%) SAP
6 5 (2.09%) HP
6 5 (2.09%) Oracle
7 2 (0.84%) Sun
8 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.42%) IBM
8 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft