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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 311 463
Rank change year-on-year -44 +152 -18
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 331 473 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.90% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.99% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 60 136 207
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £26,650
25th Percentile £41,875 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.19% -2.11% -11.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,425 £65,000
90th Percentile £94,775 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £42,161
% change year-on-year +7.53% +10.29% -11.24%

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 50,653 47,952 60,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.28% 91.49% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 29,910 23,033 46,850
10th Percentile £28,738 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 28 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Top 16 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 28 January 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
UK excluding London -11 246 £50,000 +7.53% 67
England -74 243 £62,500 +38.89% 75
South East +68 94 £62,500 +10.60% 22
Scotland +22 73 £40,000 -27.27% 3
London -31 71 £65,000 +0.23% 21
Work from Home +8 41 £75,000 +13.34% 19
North of England -56 32 £50,000 +25.00% 18
Midlands +5 23 £50,000 +25.00% 9
Yorkshire -31 18 - - 1
North West +1 14 £50,000 +25.00% 13
East Midlands -5 14 £45,390 +13.48% 4
South West -24 11 £59,000 +26.88% 7
West Midlands +20 9 £57,500 -20.69% 5
Northern Ireland - 8 - -
East of England -20 3 £28,500 -36.67% 7
Wales +2 2 £25,400 -67.75% 3

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 70 (21.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.30%) Confluence
2 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
2 1 (0.30%) IIS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 106 (32.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (24.17%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (21.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.21%) Fusion 360
5 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.30%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (19.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.72%) SAP PP
3 4 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.91%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.91%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.91%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.91%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.60%) C-CURE
5 2 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.60%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.30%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.30%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.30%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.78%) Azure
2 34 (10.27%) Power Platform
3 5 (1.51%) AWS
4 4 (1.21%) Entra ID
5 3 (0.91%) Collibra
5 3 (0.91%) GCP
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (0.60%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.30%) OCI
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle CX
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.30%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.30%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.30%) SaaS
7 1 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) Modbus
2 2 (0.60%) MQTT
2 2 (0.60%) RS-485
3 1 (0.30%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.30%) RS-232
3 1 (0.30%) VLAN
3 1 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.30%) Wireless
3 1 (0.30%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.27%) Power BI
2 30 (9.06%) Data Lake
3 28 (8.46%) SAP BW
4 10 (3.02%) Metadata
5 4 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.60%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.60%) Tableau
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.30%) MS Access
7 1 (0.30%) MySQL
7 1 (0.30%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 192 (58.01%) Social Skills
2 106 (32.02%) Manufacturing
3 105 (31.72%) Finance
4 61 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (16.62%) Marketing
6 27 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.14%) Retail
8 16 (4.83%) Law
9 14 (4.23%) Banking
10 13 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (3.32%) Electronics
11 11 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (2.42%) Legal
12 8 (2.42%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.51%) Automotive
13 5 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.91%) Back Office
14 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (49.24%) Senior
2 112 (33.84%) Quality Manager
3 99 (29.91%) Analyst
4 95 (28.70%) Senior Manager
5 86 (25.98%) Senior Quality Manager
6 78 (23.56%) QA Manager
7 64 (19.34%) Senior QA Manager
8 59 (17.82%) Senior Analyst
9 58 (17.52%) SAP Analyst
10 28 (8.46%) Report Analyst
10 28 (8.46%) Sustainability Analyst
11 25 (7.55%) Audit Manager
12 23 (6.95%) Senior Audit Manager
13 13 (3.93%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.63%) Project Manager
15 11 (3.32%) Lead
16 10 (3.02%) Systems Manager
17 9 (2.72%) Architect
17 9 (2.72%) Technologist
18 7 (2.11%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.60%) .NET
1 2 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.30%) CSS
2 1 (0.30%) HTML
2 1 (0.30%) Middleware
2 1 (0.30%) NestJS
2 1 (0.30%) REST
2 1 (0.30%) SAP CAF
2 1 (0.30%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.30%) SvelteKit
2 1 (0.30%) WCF
2 1 (0.30%) Web Services
2 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (1.81%) Data Structures
2 6 (1.81%) Life Science
3 5 (1.51%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.91%) CCTV
5 3 (0.91%) IoT
5 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (0.60%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.60%) IVR
6 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.60%) NHS
6 2 (0.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.60%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.60%) PDA
6 2 (0.60%) PMI
6 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.60%) SCADA
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.21%) Unix
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) Debian
3 1 (0.30%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (35.65%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (32.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 100 (30.21%) Coaching
4 93 (28.10%) Project Management
5 73 (22.05%) QMS
6 70 (21.15%) Six Sigma
7 65 (19.64%) Data Management
8 64 (19.34%) Analytics
8 64 (19.34%) Customer Experience
8 64 (19.34%) Due Diligence
8 64 (19.34%) Lean Six Sigma
8 64 (19.34%) Performance Improvement
9 58 (17.52%) Logistics
10 55 (16.62%) Technical Leadership
11 54 (16.31%) User Acceptance Testing
12 53 (16.01%) Impact Analysis
12 53 (16.01%) Translating Business Requirements
13 52 (15.71%) Incident Management
13 52 (15.71%) SAP Implementation
14 51 (15.41%) Decision Quality
Programming Languages
1 12 (3.63%) SQL
2 5 (1.51%) ABAP
3 3 (0.91%) C#
4 1 (0.30%) C
4 1 (0.30%) C++
4 1 (0.30%) Java
4 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.30%) Perl
4 1 (0.30%) Python
4 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (19.64%) Degree
2 64 (19.34%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 23 (6.95%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.34%) ACCA
5 14 (4.23%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.02%) HNC
6 10 (3.02%) HND
7 9 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.42%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.51%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 5 (1.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 5 (1.51%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
10 4 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.21%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.60%) City & Guilds
11 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (35.05%) QA
2 52 (15.71%) Data Quality
3 19 (5.74%) ISO 9001
4 15 (4.53%) IFRS
5 12 (3.63%) GDPR
6 11 (3.32%) ISO 13485
7 9 (2.72%) GMP
8 6 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (1.21%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.21%) GxP
11 2 (0.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.60%) GAMP
11 2 (0.60%) GRC
11 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.60%) PMO
11 2 (0.60%) SLA
12 1 (0.30%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Firmware
2 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (1.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.30%) Ansible
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.30%) MOM
Vendors
1 113 (34.14%) SAP
2 96 (29.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.42%) Oracle
4 5 (1.51%) Google
4 5 (1.51%) Informatica
4 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.21%) Workday
6 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.60%) IFS
8 1 (0.30%) Adobe
8 1 (0.30%) ANSYS
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco
8 1 (0.30%) EMC
8 1 (0.30%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.30%) Lotus
8 1 (0.30%) MikroTik
8 1 (0.30%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.30%) PTC
8 1 (0.30%) Siemens
8 1 (0.30%) TOWER Software