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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 392 365
Rank change year-on-year -35 -27 +143
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 422 322 567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.65% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.73% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 204 99 175
10th Percentile £30,040 £29,050 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,875 £40,000
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 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £97,600 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £59,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +21.65% -11.82%

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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 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 3 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 -27 377 £45,000 -25.00% 366
UK excluding London -31 325 £45,000 -23.73% 305
North of England -51 93 £52,500 -20.89% 66
Work from Home -16 86 £50,000 -23.08% 139
Midlands +23 85 £45,000 +2.99% 66
London -46 77 £50,000 -4.76% 121
West Midlands +17 62 £50,000 +25.00% 34
North West +38 60 £52,500 -25.73% 39
South East -69 60 £40,000 -37.25% 62
South West -47 35 £41,250 -17.50% 26
East Midlands -4 23 £42,500 -6.37% 32
East of England -16 21 £40,000 +8.84% 37
Yorkshire -112 21 £53,250 -3.18% 21
Scotland +24 16 £70,000 +41.61% 38
North East -48 12 £34,500 -28.13% 7
Northern Ireland - 10 - - 10
Wales -60 5 £32,000 -1.54% 8

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 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 44 (10.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.64%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (4.98%) SAP QM
2 15 (3.55%) SAP ERP
2 15 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.66%) SAP PP
4 5 (1.18%) Primavera
4 5 (1.18%) SAP EHS
5 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.71%) Q-Pulse
6 3 (0.71%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.47%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.24%) FastStats
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
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
8 1 (0.24%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 44 (10.43%) Azure
2 38 (9.00%) Power Platform
3 25 (5.92%) AWS
4 17 (4.03%) Microsoft Purview
5 14 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.08%) GCP
7 6 (1.42%) SaaS
8 5 (1.18%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.18%) Smartsheet
9 4 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.95%) Collibra
9 4 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.71%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.47%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.47%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.47%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.95%) Network Security
2 2 (0.47%) Internet
2 2 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.00%) Power BI
2 22 (5.21%) Metadata
3 16 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (1.66%) Power Query
5 7 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.18%) Tableau
7 4 (0.95%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (0.95%) GIS
7 4 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.71%) MySQL
9 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (3.55%) JIRA
2 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 166 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 129 (30.57%) Finance
3 126 (29.86%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (27.96%) Manufacturing
5 45 (10.66%) Organisational Skills
6 38 (9.00%) Legal
7 36 (8.53%) Aerospace
8 29 (6.87%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (6.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 25 (5.92%) Retail
11 20 (4.74%) Banking
12 19 (4.50%) Electronics
13 14 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (3.32%) Law
14 10 (2.37%) Military
14 10 (2.37%) Public Sector
15 8 (1.90%) Aviation
16 7 (1.66%) Fire and Rescue
16 7 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 46 (10.90%) Quality Engineer
2 42 (9.95%) Lead
3 36 (8.53%) Head of QA
4 35 (8.29%) Quality Manager
5 31 (7.35%) Senior
6 28 (6.64%) Systems Engineer
7 21 (4.98%) QA Manager
8 20 (4.74%) Technologist
9 18 (4.27%) QA Engineer
10 17 (4.03%) Analyst
11 16 (3.79%) Data Manager
12 15 (3.55%) Operations Manager
13 14 (3.32%) Administrator
14 12 (2.84%) QA Officer
15 11 (2.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 11 (2.61%) Software Engineer
16 9 (2.13%) IT Manager
16 9 (2.13%) Project Manager
16 9 (2.13%) Senior Quality Engineer
16 9 (2.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.32%) SAP Fiori
2 11 (2.61%) LangChain
2 11 (2.61%) LangGraph
2 11 (2.61%) PyTorch
2 11 (2.61%) scikit-learn
2 11 (2.61%) TensorFlow
3 4 (0.95%) EDI
4 3 (0.71%) Java RMI
4 3 (0.71%) Terraform
5 2 (0.47%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (0.47%) Kafka
5 2 (0.47%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.24%) IDoc
6 1 (0.24%) NestJS
6 1 (0.24%) Playwright
6 1 (0.24%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.24%) PySpark
6 1 (0.24%) pytest
6 1 (0.24%) SAP ALE
6 1 (0.24%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 33 (7.82%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.08%) PMI
6 11 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.61%) Driving Licence
6 11 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.66%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.66%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.42%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.42%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.18%) Blog
11 4 (0.95%) BYOD
11 4 (0.95%) Culture of Ownership
11 4 (0.95%) FMCG
11 4 (0.95%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.71%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (44.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 135 (31.99%) QMS
3 82 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (17.06%) Decision-Making
5 69 (16.35%) Roadmaps
6 67 (15.88%) Analytics
6 67 (15.88%) Root Cause Analysis
7 66 (15.64%) Service Delivery
8 64 (15.17%) Actionable Insight
9 58 (13.74%) AI
9 58 (13.74%) Change Management
9 58 (13.74%) PRINCE2
10 52 (12.32%) ERP
11 51 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 50 (11.85%) Project Management
13 45 (10.66%) Data Governance
14 42 (9.95%) Customer Experience
14 42 (9.95%) Internal Audit
14 42 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 40 (9.48%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.40%) SQL
2 23 (5.45%) Python
3 7 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.71%) ABAP
5 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.24%) Perl
6 1 (0.24%) Scala
6 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 96 (22.75%) Degree
2 38 (9.00%) IRCA
3 24 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (4.98%) Security Cleared
5 18 (4.27%) DBS Check
5 18 (4.27%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.55%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.84%) Postgraduate
8 11 (2.61%) HNC
9 8 (1.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 7 (1.66%) Chartered Engineer
10 7 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.42%) CISSP
11 6 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.42%) HND
12 4 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.95%) CCSP
12 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (39.34%) QA
2 107 (25.36%) ISO 9001
3 65 (15.40%) Data Quality
4 60 (14.22%) GDPR
5 26 (6.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (5.45%) Accessibility
7 17 (4.03%) GMP
8 12 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.18%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.18%) ISO 14001
10 5 (1.18%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 5 (1.18%) NIST
10 5 (1.18%) PMO
11 4 (0.95%) AQAP
11 4 (0.95%) GxP
12 3 (0.71%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.71%) GLP
12 3 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 2 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 67 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 52 (12.32%) SAP
3 13 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.84%) Oracle
5 10 (2.37%) Google
6 5 (1.18%) Rockwell
6 5 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.18%) Siemens
7 4 (0.95%) Informatica
8 3 (0.71%) Databricks
8 3 (0.71%) NCR
8 3 (0.71%) Sage
8 3 (0.71%) Veritas
9 2 (0.47%) Avaya
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco
9 2 (0.47%) Genesys
9 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.24%) EMC
10 1 (0.24%) Epicor
10 1 (0.24%) IFS