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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 372 360
Rank change year-on-year -54 -12 +148
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 442 342 559
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.69% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.78% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 217 98 166
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,856 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £43,861 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £97,650 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +29.03% -13.49%

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 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -61 395 £45,000 -25.00% 347
UK excluding London -44 339 £45,000 -25.00% 283
North of England -67 95 £52,500 -20.89% 56
Work from Home -23 90 £50,000 -23.08% 136
Midlands +18 88 £45,000 +2.99% 59
London -47 83 £50,000 -2.44% 119
West Midlands +17 65 £50,000 +25.00% 31
South East -78 62 £40,000 -37.25% 66
North West +40 61 £52,500 -25.73% 33
South West -46 36 £42,500 -15.00% 27
East of England -13 25 £40,000 +8.84% 34
East Midlands -17 23 £42,500 -6.37% 28
Yorkshire -106 21 £53,250 -3.18% 17
Scotland +20 16 £70,000 +41.61% 32
North East -54 13 £34,500 -28.13% 7
Northern Ireland - 10 - - 7
Wales -66 7 £30,196 -36.39% 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 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.23%) Confluence
3 1 (0.23%) IIS
3 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 45 (10.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.71%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (4.75%) SAP QM
2 17 (3.85%) SAP ERP
3 15 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.58%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.13%) Primavera
5 5 (1.13%) SAP EHS
6 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.90%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.68%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.68%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.23%) FastStats
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 47 (10.63%) Azure
2 40 (9.05%) Power Platform
3 27 (6.11%) AWS
4 17 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 16 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (3.39%) GCP
7 6 (1.36%) SaaS
8 5 (1.13%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.13%) Smartsheet
9 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.90%) Collibra
9 4 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.90%) Network Security
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.05%) Power BI
2 22 (4.98%) Metadata
3 19 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (1.81%) Power Query
5 8 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.13%) Tableau
7 4 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (0.90%) GIS
7 4 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.68%) MySQL
8 3 (0.68%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (3.39%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) MLflow
3 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 174 (39.37%) Social Skills
2 138 (31.22%) Finance
3 128 (28.96%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (27.83%) Manufacturing
5 49 (11.09%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (9.28%) Aerospace
6 41 (9.28%) Legal
7 28 (6.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (5.88%) Retail
10 22 (4.98%) Banking
11 19 (4.30%) Electronics
12 15 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (3.39%) Law
13 11 (2.49%) Military
13 11 (2.49%) Public Sector
14 9 (2.04%) Aviation
15 8 (1.81%) Fire and Rescue
16 7 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 46 (10.41%) Quality Engineer
2 43 (9.73%) Lead
3 36 (8.14%) Head of QA
4 34 (7.69%) Quality Manager
5 33 (7.47%) Senior
6 28 (6.33%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (4.52%) QA Manager
8 19 (4.30%) Technologist
9 18 (4.07%) Analyst
9 18 (4.07%) QA Engineer
10 16 (3.62%) Administrator
10 16 (3.62%) Data Manager
11 15 (3.39%) Operations Manager
12 13 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 13 (2.94%) QA Officer
12 13 (2.94%) Software Engineer
13 10 (2.26%) IT Manager
13 10 (2.26%) Project Manager
14 9 (2.04%) Senior Manager
14 9 (2.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.17%) PyTorch
1 14 (3.17%) SAP Fiori
1 14 (3.17%) scikit-learn
1 14 (3.17%) TensorFlow
2 13 (2.94%) LangChain
2 13 (2.94%) LangGraph
3 4 (0.90%) EDI
4 3 (0.68%) Java RMI
4 3 (0.68%) Terraform
5 2 (0.45%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (0.45%) Kafka
5 2 (0.45%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.23%) gRPC
6 1 (0.23%) NumPy
6 1 (0.23%) ONNX
6 1 (0.23%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.23%) Pandas
6 1 (0.23%) PySpark
6 1 (0.23%) pytest
6 1 (0.23%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.95%) Analytical Mindset
2 39 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.94%) Driving Licence
5 13 (2.94%) PMI
6 11 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.81%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.36%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.13%) Blog
11 5 (1.13%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.90%) BYOD
12 4 (0.90%) Culture of Ownership
12 4 (0.90%) FMCG
12 4 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.68%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (43.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 137 (31.00%) QMS
3 84 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (16.52%) Decision-Making
5 72 (16.29%) Roadmaps
6 71 (16.06%) Service Delivery
7 69 (15.61%) Analytics
7 69 (15.61%) Root Cause Analysis
8 64 (14.48%) Actionable Insight
8 64 (14.48%) AI
9 59 (13.35%) Change Management
9 59 (13.35%) PRINCE2
10 54 (12.22%) ERP
11 52 (11.76%) Project Management
11 52 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 46 (10.41%) Data Governance
12 46 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (9.95%) Internal Audit
14 43 (9.73%) Risk Management
15 42 (9.50%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.56%) SQL
2 27 (6.11%) Python
3 8 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.68%) ABAP
5 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.23%) Perl
6 1 (0.23%) Scala
6 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (23.98%) Degree
2 38 (8.60%) IRCA
3 26 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 24 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (4.98%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.30%) DBS Check
7 15 (3.39%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.94%) HNC
9 12 (2.71%) Postgraduate
10 8 (1.81%) Chartered Engineer
10 8 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.58%) CISSP
11 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.58%) HND
11 7 (1.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.90%) CCSP
13 4 (0.90%) CRISC
13 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (38.24%) QA
2 113 (25.57%) ISO 9001
3 67 (15.16%) Data Quality
4 65 (14.71%) GDPR
5 29 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (5.20%) Accessibility
7 18 (4.07%) GMP
8 12 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.36%) ISO 14001
10 6 (1.36%) NIST
11 5 (1.13%) Automotive SPICE
11 5 (1.13%) ISO 26262
11 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 5 (1.13%) PMO
12 4 (0.90%) AQAP
12 4 (0.90%) GxP
12 4 (0.90%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.90%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.68%) GLP
System Software
1 2 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 54 (12.22%) SAP
3 14 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.71%) Oracle
5 10 (2.26%) Google
6 6 (1.36%) Rockwell
6 6 (1.36%) Siemens
7 5 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.90%) Informatica
9 3 (0.68%) Databricks
9 3 (0.68%) NCR
9 3 (0.68%) Sage
9 3 (0.68%) Veritas
10 2 (0.45%) Avaya
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco
10 2 (0.45%) Genesys
10 2 (0.45%) NEC
10 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.23%) EMC
11 1 (0.23%) Epicor