Quality Management Job Trends

Quality Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Quality Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 357 346
Rank change year-on-year -60 -11 +166
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 456 357 539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.72% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.81% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 262 88 158
10th Percentile £30,171 £29,006 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,700 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -18.67% +12.90% -11.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Quality Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quality Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Quality Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Quality Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quality Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quality Management

Quality Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Management over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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
England -39 417 £45,000 -10.00% 552
UK excluding London -86 343 £42,700 -18.67% 467
Work from Home -5 105 £50,000 -23.08% 252
London -32 96 £55,000 +10.00% 156
Midlands +21 90 £42,500 -2.73% 69
North of England -82 81 £52,500 -4.55% 107
South East -83 78 £45,000 -30.77% 103
West Midlands +9 63 £45,000 +12.50% 38
North West +10 51 £52,500 -12.50% 56
South West -54 33 £36,000 +28.57% 39
East of England -11 32 £40,959 +11.45% 57
East Midlands -18 27 £42,500 -6.37% 31
Scotland +1 18 £60,000 +21.38% 59
Yorkshire -104 18 £53,250 - 35
North East -53 12 £41,919 -12.67% 16
Wales -68 7 £32,000 -32.59% 23
Northern Ireland -80 4 - - 14

Quality Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.88%) Confluence
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (3.73%) SAP QM
2 15 (3.29%) SAP ERP
3 12 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.97%) SAP PP
5 6 (1.32%) SAP R/3
6 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (1.10%) Primavera
6 5 (1.10%) Q-Pulse
6 5 (1.10%) SAP EHS
7 3 (0.66%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.66%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.44%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.22%) FastStats
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 56 (12.28%) Power Platform
2 51 (11.18%) Azure
3 29 (6.36%) AWS
4 19 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (3.73%) GCP
7 7 (1.54%) SaaS
8 6 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.10%) Smartsheet
10 4 (0.88%) Collibra
10 4 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.88%) GitHub
10 4 (0.88%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.44%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.44%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.88%) Network Security
2 2 (0.44%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) Wireless
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.28%) Power BI
2 27 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.70%) Metadata
4 16 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (2.19%) Power Query
7 6 (1.32%) GIS
7 6 (1.32%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.10%) Tableau
9 4 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.44%) MySQL
11 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (3.73%) JIRA
2 10 (2.19%) Git
3 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.44%) MLflow
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 172 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 127 (27.85%) Manufacturing
3 116 (25.44%) Finance
4 108 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (10.75%) Legal
7 46 (10.09%) Aerospace
8 27 (5.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (5.92%) Public Sector
9 26 (5.70%) Retail
10 23 (5.04%) Banking
11 21 (4.61%) Electronics
12 20 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (3.29%) Law
15 11 (2.41%) Military
16 10 (2.19%) Aviation
16 10 (2.19%) Fire and Rescue
17 7 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (9.65%) Lead
2 42 (9.21%) Senior
3 41 (8.99%) Quality Engineer
4 36 (7.89%) Quality Manager
5 22 (4.82%) Systems Engineer
6 21 (4.61%) QA Engineer
7 20 (4.39%) Analyst
7 20 (4.39%) Data Manager
8 19 (4.17%) Administrator
8 19 (4.17%) QA Manager
9 16 (3.51%) Technologist
10 15 (3.29%) Compliance Manager
11 14 (3.07%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 14 (3.07%) Software Engineer
12 13 (2.85%) Consultant
13 12 (2.63%) Developer
13 12 (2.63%) IT Manager
13 12 (2.63%) Operations Manager
13 12 (2.63%) QA Officer
13 12 (2.63%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.51%) PyTorch
1 16 (3.51%) scikit-learn
1 16 (3.51%) TensorFlow
2 14 (3.07%) LangChain
2 14 (3.07%) LangGraph
3 9 (1.97%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.10%) EDI
5 4 (0.88%) Terraform
6 3 (0.66%) Java RMI
7 2 (0.44%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (0.44%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.44%) gRPC
7 2 (0.44%) Hugging Face
7 2 (0.44%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.44%) NumPy
7 2 (0.44%) ONNX
7 2 (0.44%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.44%) Pandas
7 2 (0.44%) REST
8 1 (0.22%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 66 (14.47%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.82%) Driving Licence
4 20 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.07%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.85%) PMI
7 12 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.19%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.75%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.54%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.32%) Cyberattack
13 5 (1.10%) Blog
13 5 (1.10%) Industry 4.0
14 4 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.88%) BYOD
14 4 (0.88%) Culture of Ownership
14 4 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (42.76%) Continuous Improvement
2 140 (30.70%) QMS
3 103 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (19.08%) Decision-Making
5 73 (16.01%) Roadmaps
6 69 (15.13%) AI
7 59 (12.94%) ERP
8 57 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 55 (12.06%) Service Delivery
10 54 (11.84%) Data Governance
11 52 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (11.40%) Coaching
12 50 (10.96%) Internal Audit
13 49 (10.75%) Project Management
13 49 (10.75%) Risk Management
14 47 (10.31%) Analytics
15 42 (9.21%) Agile
16 40 (8.77%) Information Security
17 38 (8.33%) ITIL
17 38 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.65%) SQL
2 31 (6.80%) Python
3 10 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.22%) Bicep
5 1 (0.22%) Perl
5 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.22%) Scala
5 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (27.19%) Degree
2 46 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 35 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (4.17%) DBS Check
6 16 (3.51%) HNC
7 14 (3.07%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.63%) Postgraduate
9 9 (1.97%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.75%) Chartered Engineer
11 7 (1.54%) ACCA
11 7 (1.54%) HND
12 6 (1.32%) CISSP
12 6 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.88%) CCSP
13 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.88%) IRCA
13 4 (0.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (30.04%) QA
2 94 (20.61%) ISO 9001
3 72 (15.79%) Data Quality
4 37 (8.11%) GDPR
5 34 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (5.48%) Accessibility
7 18 (3.95%) GMP
8 12 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (2.19%) ISO 14001
10 8 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.54%) ISO 22301
11 7 (1.54%) PCI DSS
12 6 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 6 (1.32%) NIST
13 5 (1.10%) ECSS
13 5 (1.10%) PMO
14 4 (0.88%) AQAP
14 4 (0.88%) Good Clinical Practice
14 4 (0.88%) ISO 19650
15 3 (0.66%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 2 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.22%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 80 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.40%) SAP
3 17 (3.73%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.07%) Oracle
5 10 (2.19%) Google
6 9 (1.97%) Rockwell
6 9 (1.97%) Siemens
7 6 (1.32%) Sage
8 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.88%) Informatica
9 4 (0.88%) Xero
10 3 (0.66%) Cisco
10 3 (0.66%) Databricks
10 3 (0.66%) Genesys
10 3 (0.66%) NCR
10 3 (0.66%) Veritas
11 2 (0.44%) Minitab
11 2 (0.44%) NEC
11 2 (0.44%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.44%) Thales