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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 367 349
Rank change year-on-year -54 -18 +169
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 462 350 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.79% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 266 81 157
10th Percentile £30,317 £29,438 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,038 £49,433 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +6.31% -10.14%

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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
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 £97,500
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 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 9 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 -37 423 £45,000 -10.00% 468
UK excluding London -70 350 £44,038 -10.91% 322
Work from Home +10 103 £50,000 -23.08% 146
London -30 96 £55,000 +10.00% 165
Midlands +25 91 £42,500 -2.73% 54
North of England -77 83 £50,500 -1.94% 75
South East -77 81 £45,000 -32.08% 81
West Midlands +10 65 £45,000 +12.50% 32
North West +20 52 £52,500 -4.55% 40
East of England -10 33 £40,959 +11.45% 43
South West -56 32 £32,000 +14.29% 30
East Midlands -15 26 £42,500 -6.37% 21
Scotland -8 18 £60,000 +21.38% 26
Yorkshire -90 17 £56,500 - 23
North East -54 14 £41,919 -12.67% 12
Wales -69 8 £30,196 -36.39% 11
Northern Ireland -76 4 - - 6

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 15 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.87%) Confluence
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 49 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.95%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 17 (3.68%) SAP QM
2 16 (3.46%) SAP ERP
3 12 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.95%) SAP PP
5 7 (1.52%) SAP R/3
6 6 (1.30%) Q-Pulse
7 5 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (1.08%) Primavera
7 5 (1.08%) SAP EHS
8 3 (0.65%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.65%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.43%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.22%) FastStats
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.34%) Power Platform
2 53 (11.47%) Azure
3 31 (6.71%) AWS
4 20 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (4.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 18 (3.90%) GCP
7 8 (1.73%) SaaS
8 6 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.08%) Smartsheet
10 4 (0.87%) Collibra
10 4 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.87%) GitHub
11 3 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.65%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.65%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.43%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) Network Security
2 3 (0.65%) Wireless
3 2 (0.43%) Firewall
3 2 (0.43%) 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 57 (12.34%) Power BI
2 29 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (5.84%) Metadata
4 16 (3.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (2.16%) Power Query
7 8 (1.73%) GIS
8 7 (1.52%) SAP BW
9 5 (1.08%) Tableau
10 4 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.43%) EDMS
12 2 (0.43%) MySQL
12 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.68%) JIRA
2 10 (2.16%) Git
3 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.43%) MLflow
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 170 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 129 (27.92%) Manufacturing
3 118 (25.54%) Finance
4 108 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (11.47%) Organisational Skills
6 51 (11.04%) Legal
7 48 (10.39%) Aerospace
8 27 (5.84%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (5.84%) Public Sector
9 24 (5.19%) Retail
10 23 (4.98%) Electronics
11 22 (4.76%) Banking
12 21 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (3.03%) Law
15 12 (2.60%) Military
16 10 (2.16%) Aviation
16 10 (2.16%) Fire and Rescue
17 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (9.74%) Lead
2 43 (9.31%) Senior
3 42 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
4 38 (8.23%) Quality Manager
5 23 (4.98%) QA Engineer
6 22 (4.76%) Data Manager
7 21 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (4.33%) Analyst
9 19 (4.11%) QA Manager
10 17 (3.68%) Administrator
11 16 (3.46%) Compliance Manager
12 15 (3.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 15 (3.25%) Software Engineer
12 15 (3.25%) Technologist
13 13 (2.81%) Consultant
13 13 (2.81%) Senior Manager
14 12 (2.60%) Developer
14 12 (2.60%) IT Manager
15 11 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 11 (2.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.68%) PyTorch
1 17 (3.68%) scikit-learn
1 17 (3.68%) TensorFlow
2 15 (3.25%) LangChain
2 15 (3.25%) LangGraph
3 9 (1.95%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.08%) EDI
5 4 (0.87%) Terraform
6 3 (0.65%) Java RMI
7 2 (0.43%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (0.43%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.43%) gRPC
7 2 (0.43%) Hugging Face
7 2 (0.43%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.43%) NumPy
7 2 (0.43%) ONNX
7 2 (0.43%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.43%) Pandas
7 2 (0.43%) REST
8 1 (0.22%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 71 (15.37%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.19%) Driving Licence
4 21 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.25%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.81%) PMI
7 11 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.16%) Operational Technology
9 9 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.73%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.73%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.52%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.30%) Cyberattack
13 5 (1.08%) Blog
13 5 (1.08%) Industry 4.0
14 4 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.87%) BYOD
14 4 (0.87%) Culture of Ownership
14 4 (0.87%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.87%) Windows
2 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (42.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 142 (30.74%) QMS
3 108 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (19.05%) Decision-Making
5 74 (16.02%) Roadmaps
6 71 (15.37%) AI
7 60 (12.99%) ERP
8 59 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (12.12%) Data Governance
10 55 (11.90%) Service Delivery
11 53 (11.47%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (11.47%) Coaching
12 51 (11.04%) Risk Management
13 50 (10.82%) Internal Audit
14 48 (10.39%) Analytics
15 45 (9.74%) Project Management
16 43 (9.31%) Information Security
17 41 (8.87%) Agile
18 39 (8.44%) ITIL
18 39 (8.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.74%) SQL
2 33 (7.14%) Python
3 10 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.43%) 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
1 127 (27.49%) Degree
2 47 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 36 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (3.68%) DBS Check
6 16 (3.46%) HNC
7 13 (2.81%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.60%) Postgraduate
9 9 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.73%) Chartered Engineer
10 8 (1.73%) HND
11 6 (1.30%) ACCA
11 6 (1.30%) CISSP
11 6 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.87%) CCSP
12 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.87%) IRCA
12 4 (0.87%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (30.52%) QA
2 94 (20.35%) ISO 9001
3 74 (16.02%) Data Quality
4 42 (9.09%) GDPR
5 34 (7.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (5.63%) Accessibility
7 17 (3.68%) GMP
8 12 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (2.16%) ISO 14001
10 8 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.73%) ISO 22301
10 8 (1.73%) PCI DSS
11 7 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 6 (1.30%) NIST
13 5 (1.08%) ECSS
13 5 (1.08%) ISO 19650
14 4 (0.87%) AQAP
14 4 (0.87%) Good Clinical Practice
14 4 (0.87%) PMO
15 3 (0.65%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 2 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.22%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 81 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 54 (11.69%) SAP
3 16 (3.46%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.03%) Oracle
5 11 (2.38%) Google
6 9 (1.95%) Rockwell
6 9 (1.95%) Siemens
7 7 (1.52%) Sage
8 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.87%) Informatica
9 4 (0.87%) Xero
10 3 (0.65%) Cisco
10 3 (0.65%) Databricks
10 3 (0.65%) Genesys
10 3 (0.65%) NCR
10 3 (0.65%) NEC
10 3 (0.65%) Veritas
11 2 (0.43%) Avaya
11 2 (0.43%) Minitab
11 2 (0.43%) Thales