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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 359 352
Rank change year-on-year -67 -7 +162
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 453 343 552
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.69% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.78% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 257 89 159
10th Percentile £30,354 £29,150 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £78,005
90th Percentile £71,000 £95,000 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,519 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -15.20% +12.90% -11.43%

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 85,859 44,048 62,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.76% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,233 24,687 33,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,090
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 27 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 27 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 -40 414 £45,000 -12.20% 413
UK excluding London -73 342 £44,519 -15.20% 331
Work from Home -3 103 £50,000 -23.08% 136
Midlands +19 93 £42,500 -2.73% 53
London -28 93 £55,000 +10.00% 106
North of England -72 80 £52,500 -4.55% 74
South East -87 75 £45,000 -30.77% 81
West Midlands +11 66 £45,000 +12.50% 28
North West +18 51 £52,500 -19.23% 41
East of England -1 33 £41,919 +14.06% 45
South West -63 33 £37,500 -3.85% 32
East Midlands -17 27 £42,500 -6.37% 25
Scotland +31 18 £60,000 +21.38% 31
Yorkshire -97 18 £53,250 - 23
North East -55 11 £41,919 -12.67% 10
Wales -68 6 £30,196 -36.39% 12
Northern Ireland -85 4 - - 7

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 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.88%) Confluence
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 49 (10.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (3.75%) SAP QM
2 15 (3.31%) SAP ERP
3 11 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.77%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.10%) Primavera
5 5 (1.10%) SAP EHS
5 5 (1.10%) SAP R/3
6 4 (0.88%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.66%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.44%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.22%) FastStats
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 52 (11.48%) Power Platform
2 50 (11.04%) Azure
3 27 (5.96%) AWS
4 19 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.97%) Microsoft Purview
6 15 (3.31%) GCP
7 7 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.55%) SaaS
8 5 (1.10%) Smartsheet
9 4 (0.88%) Collibra
9 4 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.88%) GitHub
9 4 (0.88%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.44%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.44%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.44%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.88%) Network Security
2 2 (0.44%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) Wireless
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (11.48%) Power BI
2 26 (5.74%) Metadata
3 25 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (2.21%) Power Query
7 5 (1.10%) GIS
7 5 (1.10%) SAP BW
7 5 (1.10%) Tableau
8 4 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.44%) MySQL
10 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (3.97%) JIRA
2 8 (1.77%) Git
3 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.44%) MLflow
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 167 (36.87%) Social Skills
2 128 (28.26%) Manufacturing
3 114 (25.17%) Finance
4 106 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (12.80%) Organisational Skills
6 48 (10.60%) Legal
7 46 (10.15%) Aerospace
8 27 (5.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (5.96%) Retail
9 24 (5.30%) Public Sector
10 22 (4.86%) Banking
10 22 (4.86%) Electronics
11 21 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (3.31%) Law
14 11 (2.43%) Military
15 10 (2.21%) Aviation
15 10 (2.21%) Fire and Rescue
16 7 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 45 (9.93%) Lead
2 44 (9.71%) Quality Engineer
3 43 (9.49%) Senior
4 35 (7.73%) Quality Manager
5 25 (5.52%) Systems Engineer
6 20 (4.42%) Analyst
6 20 (4.42%) QA Engineer
6 20 (4.42%) QA Manager
7 19 (4.19%) Administrator
8 18 (3.97%) Data Manager
9 17 (3.75%) Technologist
10 15 (3.31%) Compliance Manager
11 13 (2.87%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 13 (2.87%) Operations Manager
11 13 (2.87%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.65%) Consultant
12 12 (2.65%) IT Manager
12 12 (2.65%) QA Officer
12 12 (2.65%) Senior Manager
13 11 (2.43%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.31%) PyTorch
1 15 (3.31%) scikit-learn
1 15 (3.31%) TensorFlow
2 13 (2.87%) LangChain
2 13 (2.87%) LangGraph
3 10 (2.21%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.10%) EDI
5 4 (0.88%) Terraform
6 3 (0.66%) Java RMI
7 2 (0.44%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (0.44%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.44%) gRPC
7 2 (0.44%) Hugging Face
7 2 (0.44%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.44%) NumPy
7 2 (0.44%) ONNX
7 2 (0.44%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.44%) Pandas
7 2 (0.44%) REST
8 1 (0.22%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 62 (13.69%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.64%) Driving Licence
4 19 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.87%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.87%) PMI
6 12 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.99%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.77%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.77%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.32%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.10%) Blog
13 4 (0.88%) BYOD
13 4 (0.88%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.88%) FMCG
13 4 (0.88%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (43.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 144 (31.79%) QMS
3 99 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (18.76%) Decision-Making
5 73 (16.11%) Roadmaps
6 68 (15.01%) AI
7 57 (12.58%) ERP
8 56 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (11.70%) Service Delivery
10 52 (11.48%) Data Governance
11 51 (11.26%) Coaching
11 51 (11.26%) Project Management
12 50 (11.04%) Internal Audit
13 48 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (10.60%) Risk Management
14 45 (9.93%) Analytics
15 42 (9.27%) Agile
16 39 (8.61%) Information Security
16 39 (8.61%) Project Delivery
17 38 (8.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (9.05%) SQL
2 29 (6.40%) Python
3 10 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.44%) 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
1 121 (26.71%) Degree
2 42 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.64%) DBS Check
6 15 (3.31%) HNC
7 14 (3.09%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.65%) Postgraduate
9 9 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.77%) ACCA
10 8 (1.77%) Chartered Engineer
10 8 (1.77%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.55%) HND
12 6 (1.32%) CISSP
12 6 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 4 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.88%) CCSP
14 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.88%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (30.68%) QA
2 94 (20.75%) ISO 9001
3 69 (15.23%) Data Quality
4 37 (8.17%) GDPR
5 34 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (5.52%) Accessibility
7 18 (3.97%) GMP
8 12 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (2.21%) ISO 14001
10 8 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.55%) ISO 22301
11 7 (1.55%) PCI DSS
12 6 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 6 (1.32%) NIST
13 5 (1.10%) ECSS
13 5 (1.10%) PMO
14 4 (0.88%) AQAP
14 4 (0.88%) ISO 19650
15 3 (0.66%) ISO 26262
15 3 (0.66%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.22%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 80 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.26%) SAP
3 16 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.09%) Oracle
5 10 (2.21%) Google
6 8 (1.77%) Rockwell
6 8 (1.77%) Siemens
7 6 (1.32%) Sage
8 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.88%) Informatica
9 4 (0.88%) Xero
10 3 (0.66%) Cisco
10 3 (0.66%) Genesys
10 3 (0.66%) NCR
10 3 (0.66%) Veritas
11 2 (0.44%) Avaya
11 2 (0.44%) Databricks
11 2 (0.44%) NEC
11 2 (0.44%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.44%) Thales