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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 421 415
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +65
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 412 282 569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.57% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.63% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 159 108 274
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £27,375
25th Percentile £35,201 £37,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +15.69% -16.39%
75th Percentile £60,000 £85,000 £72,131
90th Percentile £87,500 £101,125 £88,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £57,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.05% +20.00% -9.26%

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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +25 360 £45,000 -18.18% 128
UK excluding London +33 307 £45,000 -21.05% 99
North of England -37 96 £55,000 +14.58% 21
Midlands +41 89 £45,000 +9.76% 30
Work from Home +7 82 £50,000 -20.00% 45
London -20 80 £50,000 - 41
North West +38 59 £60,000 -9.59% 10
West Midlands +25 58 £50,000 +25.00% 19
South East -17 41 £36,500 -41.60% 25
South West -37 33 £41,250 -14.51% 14
East Midlands -3 31 £29,000 -30.95% 10
Yorkshire -105 21 £53,250 +42.00% 12
North East -38 16 £34,500 -28.13% 2
Scotland +17 15 £45,000 -40.00% 3
East of England -8 14 £40,000 -60.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 13 - - 2
Wales -46 6 - - 1

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 12 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 55 (13.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (6.31%) SAP QM
2 21 (5.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (4.61%) SAP ERP
4 8 (1.94%) Q-Pulse
4 8 (1.94%) SAP PP
5 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.97%) Primavera
5 4 (0.97%) SAP EHS
6 3 (0.73%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.49%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.24%) FastStats
8 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-M
8 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 26 (6.31%) Power Platform
2 24 (5.83%) Azure
3 16 (3.88%) AWS
4 14 (3.40%) Microsoft Purview
5 12 (2.91%) GCP
6 7 (1.70%) SaaS
7 6 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.21%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.97%) Smartsheet
10 3 (0.73%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.49%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.49%) Collibra
11 2 (0.49%) GitHub
11 2 (0.49%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.49%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) Network Security
2 2 (0.49%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.31%) Power BI
2 17 (4.13%) Metadata
3 8 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.21%) Tableau
5 3 (0.73%) Power Query
5 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.49%) MySQL
6 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.24%) Big Data
7 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.24%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.70%) JIRA
2 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 185 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 149 (36.17%) Finance
3 130 (31.55%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (27.43%) Manufacturing
5 44 (10.68%) Influencing Skills
6 30 (7.28%) Legal
6 30 (7.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 27 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (6.07%) Retail
9 21 (5.10%) Aerospace
10 18 (4.37%) Banking
11 17 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.43%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.18%) Electronics
14 8 (1.94%) Law
15 7 (1.70%) Advertising
15 7 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.46%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.46%) Local Government
17 5 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (17.48%) Head of QA
2 36 (8.74%) Quality Engineer
2 36 (8.74%) Technologist
3 35 (8.50%) Quality Manager
4 34 (8.25%) Senior
5 25 (6.07%) Lead
5 25 (6.07%) Systems Engineer
6 19 (4.61%) Systems Manager
7 18 (4.37%) Administrator
8 16 (3.88%) Analyst
9 14 (3.40%) QA Officer
10 13 (3.16%) QA Manager
11 12 (2.91%) Project Manager
12 11 (2.67%) Data Manager
12 11 (2.67%) Senior Quality Engineer
12 11 (2.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 10 (2.43%) Audit Manager
14 9 (2.18%) Support Engineer
14 9 (2.18%) Technical Support
14 9 (2.18%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.61%) SAP Fiori
2 8 (1.94%) LangChain
2 8 (1.94%) LangGraph
2 8 (1.94%) PyTorch
2 8 (1.94%) scikit-learn
2 8 (1.94%) TensorFlow
3 3 (0.73%) Java RMI
4 2 (0.49%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (0.49%) Kafka
4 2 (0.49%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (0.49%) Web Services
5 1 (0.24%) .NET
5 1 (0.24%) ADO
5 1 (0.24%) IDoc
5 1 (0.24%) Playwright
5 1 (0.24%) PySpark
5 1 (0.24%) pytest
5 1 (0.24%) REST
5 1 (0.24%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 79 (19.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.43%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.46%) Cyberattack
5 6 (1.46%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.21%) Blog
6 5 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.21%) PMI
7 4 (0.97%) FMCG
7 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.49%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.49%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.49%) Life Science
9 2 (0.49%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.49%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (45.87%) Continuous Improvement
2 145 (35.19%) QMS
3 97 (23.54%) Analytics
4 94 (22.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 91 (22.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 90 (21.84%) Actionable Insight
7 87 (21.12%) Change Management
7 87 (21.12%) Service Delivery
8 81 (19.66%) PRINCE2
9 78 (18.93%) Customer Experience
10 72 (17.48%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 56 (13.59%) Roadmaps
12 55 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (12.62%) AI
14 51 (12.38%) Decision-Making
15 44 (10.68%) ERP
15 44 (10.68%) Internal Audit
16 39 (9.47%) Coaching
17 37 (8.98%) Project Management
18 35 (8.50%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 16 (3.88%) Python
2 13 (3.16%) SQL
3 8 (1.94%) ABAP
4 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.24%) C#
5 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.24%) Scala
5 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (17.48%) IRCA
2 64 (15.53%) Degree
3 18 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.13%) DBS Check
5 10 (2.43%) Postgraduate
6 8 (1.94%) ACCA
6 8 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.70%) Security Cleared
8 6 (1.46%) CISSP
8 6 (1.46%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.97%) CCSP
9 4 (0.97%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.97%) CRISC
9 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 3 (0.73%) CCA
10 3 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (45.87%) QA
2 113 (27.43%) ISO 9001
3 89 (21.60%) GDPR
4 53 (12.86%) Data Quality
5 25 (6.07%) Accessibility
6 21 (5.10%) GMP
7 14 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (1.21%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (1.21%) COSHH
8 5 (1.21%) GxP
8 5 (1.21%) ISO 26262
8 5 (1.21%) NIST
8 5 (1.21%) PMO
9 4 (0.97%) IFRS
10 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.73%) GLP
10 3 (0.73%) Good Clinical Practice
10 3 (0.73%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.21%) Terraform
2 3 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 50 (12.14%) SAP
3 8 (1.94%) Google
4 7 (1.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.73%) Databricks
6 3 (0.73%) Genesys
6 3 (0.73%) Sage
7 2 (0.49%) Avaya
7 2 (0.49%) Cisco
7 2 (0.49%) Informatica
7 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software