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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 361 352
Rank change year-on-year -44 -9 +169
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 457 343 530
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.69% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.78% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 262 84 158
10th Percentile £30,171 £28,431 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,813 £40,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -6.82% -10.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £94,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,038 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -11.92% +7.53% -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 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
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 7 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 7 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 -41 419 £45,000 -10.00% 474
UK excluding London -58 343 £44,038 -11.92% 343
Work from Home -12 104 £50,000 -23.08% 155
London -43 98 £55,000 +10.00% 144
Midlands +31 90 £42,500 -2.73% 57
North of England -68 82 £51,500 -6.36% 82
South East -76 78 £45,000 -32.08% 92
West Midlands +3 63 £45,000 +12.50% 30
North West +20 51 £52,500 -12.50% 46
East of England -6 32 £40,959 +11.45% 45
South West -53 32 £32,000 +14.29% 29
East Midlands -10 27 £42,500 -6.37% 26
Scotland +4 18 £60,000 +21.38% 23
Yorkshire -90 18 £53,250 - 26
North East -59 13 £41,919 -12.67% 10
Wales -61 7 £32,000 -32.59% 10
Northern Ireland -78 4 - - 9

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 (3.06%) 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 (10.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (3.72%) SAP QM
2 15 (3.28%) SAP ERP
3 12 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.97%) SAP PP
5 6 (1.31%) SAP R/3
6 5 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (1.09%) Primavera
6 5 (1.09%) Q-Pulse
6 5 (1.09%) 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 (12.25%) Power Platform
2 52 (11.38%) Azure
3 29 (6.35%) AWS
4 20 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (4.16%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (3.72%) GCP
7 7 (1.53%) SaaS
8 6 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.09%) Smartsheet
10 4 (0.88%) Collibra
10 4 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.88%) GitHub
11 3 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.66%) Power Automate
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 3 (0.66%) Wireless
3 2 (0.44%) Firewall
3 2 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.22%) Broadband
4 1 (0.22%) DHCP
4 1 (0.22%) DNS
4 1 (0.22%) DSL
4 1 (0.22%) LAN
4 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.22%) VPN
4 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.25%) Power BI
2 27 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.69%) Metadata
4 16 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (2.19%) Power Query
7 7 (1.53%) GIS
8 6 (1.31%) SAP BW
9 5 (1.09%) Tableau
10 4 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.44%) MySQL
12 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.22%) EDMS
13 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.72%) JIRA
2 10 (2.19%) Git
3 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.44%) MLflow
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 170 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 128 (28.01%) Manufacturing
3 117 (25.60%) Finance
4 107 (23.41%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (11.60%) Organisational Skills
6 51 (11.16%) Legal
7 47 (10.28%) Aerospace
8 27 (5.91%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (5.91%) Public Sector
9 26 (5.69%) Retail
10 23 (5.03%) Banking
11 22 (4.81%) Electronics
12 20 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (3.28%) Law
14 11 (2.41%) Military
15 10 (2.19%) Aviation
15 10 (2.19%) Fire and Rescue
16 7 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (9.63%) Lead
2 43 (9.41%) Senior
3 40 (8.75%) Quality Engineer
4 38 (8.32%) Quality Manager
5 22 (4.81%) Data Manager
6 21 (4.60%) QA Engineer
6 21 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (4.38%) Analyst
8 19 (4.16%) QA Manager
9 17 (3.72%) Administrator
10 16 (3.50%) Compliance Manager
10 16 (3.50%) Technologist
11 14 (3.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 14 (3.06%) Software Engineer
12 13 (2.84%) Consultant
12 13 (2.84%) Senior Manager
13 12 (2.63%) Developer
13 12 (2.63%) IT Manager
13 12 (2.63%) QA Officer
14 11 (2.41%) Business Intelligence Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.50%) PyTorch
1 16 (3.50%) scikit-learn
1 16 (3.50%) TensorFlow
2 14 (3.06%) LangChain
2 14 (3.06%) LangGraph
3 9 (1.97%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.09%) 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 69 (15.10%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.03%) Driving Licence
4 21 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.84%) PMI
7 11 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.19%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.75%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.53%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.31%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.09%) Blog
12 5 (1.09%) Industry 4.0
13 4 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.88%) BYOD
13 4 (0.88%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (42.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 141 (30.85%) QMS
3 106 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (19.26%) Decision-Making
5 73 (15.97%) Roadmaps
6 69 (15.10%) AI
7 59 (12.91%) ERP
8 58 (12.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (12.25%) Data Governance
10 54 (11.82%) Coaching
10 54 (11.82%) Service Delivery
11 52 (11.38%) Business Intelligence
12 51 (11.16%) Risk Management
13 50 (10.94%) Internal Audit
14 47 (10.28%) Analytics
15 44 (9.63%) Project Management
16 43 (9.41%) Information Security
17 42 (9.19%) Agile
18 39 (8.53%) Root Cause Analysis
18 39 (8.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.63%) SQL
2 31 (6.78%) 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
1 123 (26.91%) Degree
2 46 (10.07%) Security Cleared
3 35 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (3.72%) DBS Check
6 16 (3.50%) HNC
7 14 (3.06%) 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 (1.53%) ACCA
11 7 (1.53%) HND
12 6 (1.31%) CISSP
12 6 (1.31%) 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 (29.98%) QA
2 93 (20.35%) ISO 9001
3 74 (16.19%) Data Quality
4 40 (8.75%) GDPR
5 34 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (5.47%) Accessibility
7 18 (3.94%) GMP
8 12 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (2.19%) ISO 14001
10 8 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.75%) ISO 22301
10 8 (1.75%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 6 (1.31%) NIST
12 5 (1.09%) ECSS
12 5 (1.09%) ISO 19650
12 5 (1.09%) PMO
13 4 (0.88%) AQAP
13 4 (0.88%) Good Clinical Practice
14 3 (0.66%) GxP
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 82 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.38%) SAP
3 17 (3.72%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.06%) Oracle
5 11 (2.41%) Google
6 9 (1.97%) Rockwell
6 9 (1.97%) Siemens
7 6 (1.31%) Sage
8 5 (1.09%) 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