Quality Management Job Trends

Quality Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing Quality Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	399	344	335
Rank change year-on-year	-55	-9	+202
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management	521	372	488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.43%	0.74%	0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.58%	0.84%	0.87%
Number of salaries quoted	304	69	136
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£29,500	£30,875
25^th Percentile	£37,500	£42,500	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£45,000	£50,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	-10.00%	-9.09%	-
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£70,000	£72,425
90^th Percentile	£70,000	£86,500	£80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£43,000	£49,717	£45,169
% change year-on-year	-13.51%	+10.07%	-12.72%

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 citing process or methodology skills.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	89,607	44,194	56,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.59%	87.68%	82.52%
Number of salaries quoted	60,186	25,749	29,617
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£33,750
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,750	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£59,813	£54,441	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.87%	-9.27%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£46,500	£54,000
% change year-on-year	+18.28%	-13.89%	+2.86%

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 Salary Trend

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 31 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 31 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-17	475	£46,000	-8.00%	102
UK excluding London	-72	391	£43,000	-13.51%	99
London	-14	112	£55,000	+10.00%	20
Work from Home	-15	106	£50,000	-23.08%	28
South East	-78	97	£45,000	-34.55%	25
Midlands	+7	94	£42,500	-6.37%	24
North of England	-67	88	£50,000	-9.09%	16
West Midlands	-5	60	£47,500	+18.75%	14
North West	-11	52	£52,500	-7.08%	5
East of England	-10	40	£40,000	+8.84%	11
South West	-50	38	£42,500	+51.79%	13
East Midlands	-13	34	£42,500	-6.37%	10
Scotland	-44	19	£60,000	+21.38%	6
North East	-55	19	£44,250	-7.81%	6
Yorkshire	-97	17	£53,250	-	6
Wales	-62	11	£28,392	-56.32%	5
Northern Ireland	-81	4	-	-

Quality Management Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, job vacancies citing Quality Management also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing Quality Management.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	42.2%	220
2	QMS	31.7%	165
3	QA	30.9%	161
4	Degree	27.3%	142
5	Problem-Solving	23.0%	120
6	ISO 9001	21.3%	111
7	Microsoft	20.2%	105
8	Decision-Making	17.5%	91
9	Data Quality	15.5%	81
10	AI	15.4%	80
11	Roadmaps	14.4%	75
12	Stakeholder Management	12.9%	67
13	ERP	12.3%	64
14	Service Delivery	11.9%	62
15	Azure	11.7%	61
15	Coaching	11.7%	61
17	Power BI	11.5%	60
17	Power Platform	11.5%	60
19	Data Governance	11.3%	59
20	Business Intelligence	11.1%	58
21	Microsoft Excel	10.9%	57
21	Security Cleared	10.9%	57
23	SAP	10.7%	56
24	Internal Audit	10.4%	54
25	Risk Management	10.2%	53
26	SQL	10.0%	52
27	Analytics	9.8%	51
27	GDPR	9.8%	51
29	Microsoft Office	9.4%	49
29	Validation	9.4%	49

Quality Management Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	42.2%	220
2	QMS	31.7%	165
3	Problem-Solving	23.0%	120
4	Decision-Making	17.5%	91
5	AI	15.4%	80
6	Roadmaps	14.4%	75
7	Stakeholder Management	12.9%	67
8	ERP	12.3%	64
9	Service Delivery	11.9%	62
10	Coaching	11.7%	61
11	Data Governance	11.3%	59
12	Business Intelligence	11.1%	58
13	Internal Audit	10.4%	54
14	Risk Management	10.2%	53
15	Analytics	9.8%	51
16	Validation	9.4%	49
17	Root Cause Analysis	9.2%	48
18	Information Security	8.8%	46
19	Data Protection	8.3%	43
19	Technical Leadership	8.3%	43