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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 369 351
Rank change year-on-year -52 -18 +170
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 442 345 565
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.79% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 234 92 165
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,550 £30,900
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.37% +8.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £78,005
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £59,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +26.88% -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 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £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 18 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 18 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 -51 401 £45,000 -14.29% 421
UK excluding London -70 336 £45,000 -23.73% 308
Work from Home -1 93 £50,000 -21.57% 151
Midlands +25 90 £45,000 +2.99% 55
London -37 87 £50,000 - 131
North of England -79 85 £52,500 -14.63% 68
South East -88 66 £40,000 -38.46% 74
West Midlands +6 64 £47,500 +18.75% 34
North West +35 55 £52,500 -30.00% 36
South West -64 34 £40,000 +2.56% 38
East of England 0 32 £42,500 +15.65% 40
East Midlands -23 26 £42,500 -6.37% 21
Yorkshire -109 19 £53,250 - 22
Scotland +17 17 £60,000 +21.38% 25
North East -60 11 £38,209 -20.40% 11
Wales -66 6 £28,392 -40.19% 7
Northern Ireland -72 6 - - 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 14 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.23%) IIS
3 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 48 (10.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (7.01%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.71%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (4.30%) SAP QM
2 17 (3.85%) SAP ERP
3 13 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.58%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.13%) Primavera
5 5 (1.13%) SAP EHS
5 5 (1.13%) SAP R/3
6 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.90%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.68%) Sage 200
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 45 (10.18%) Azure
2 44 (9.95%) Power Platform
3 25 (5.66%) AWS
4 18 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 14 (3.17%) GCP
7 6 (1.36%) SaaS
8 5 (1.13%) Smartsheet
9 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.90%) Collibra
9 4 (0.90%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.90%) Network Security
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) Wireless
3 1 (0.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.95%) Power BI
2 24 (5.43%) Metadata
3 22 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.04%) Power Query
5 9 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.13%) SAP BW
6 5 (1.13%) Tableau
7 4 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (0.90%) GIS
7 4 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.45%) MySQL
8 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.23%) EDMS
9 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (0.68%) Git
3 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.45%) MLflow
4 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 167 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 124 (28.05%) Manufacturing
3 123 (27.83%) Finance
4 111 (25.11%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (12.67%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (10.41%) Legal
7 44 (9.95%) Aerospace
8 27 (6.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 26 (5.88%) Retail
10 24 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (4.98%) Banking
12 19 (4.30%) Electronics
13 18 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (3.39%) Law
14 15 (3.39%) Public Sector
15 11 (2.49%) Military
16 10 (2.26%) Aviation
17 9 (2.04%) Fire and Rescue
18 7 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (1.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 44 (9.95%) Lead
1 44 (9.95%) Quality Engineer
2 37 (8.37%) Senior
3 35 (7.92%) Quality Manager
4 26 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
5 21 (4.75%) QA Manager
6 19 (4.30%) Analyst
6 19 (4.30%) QA Engineer
7 18 (4.07%) Administrator
7 18 (4.07%) Technologist
8 16 (3.62%) Data Manager
9 14 (3.17%) Operations Manager
10 13 (2.94%) Compliance Manager
10 13 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 13 (2.94%) Software Engineer
11 12 (2.71%) Head of QA
11 12 (2.71%) IT Manager
11 12 (2.71%) QA Officer
12 11 (2.49%) Senior Manager
13 10 (2.26%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.39%) PyTorch
1 15 (3.39%) scikit-learn
1 15 (3.39%) TensorFlow
2 13 (2.94%) LangChain
2 13 (2.94%) LangGraph
3 12 (2.71%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.13%) EDI
5 3 (0.68%) Java RMI
5 3 (0.68%) Terraform
6 2 (0.45%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (0.45%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.45%) gRPC
6 2 (0.45%) Hugging Face
6 2 (0.45%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.45%) NumPy
6 2 (0.45%) ONNX
6 2 (0.45%) OpenCV
6 2 (0.45%) Pandas
7 1 (0.23%) Playwright
7 1 (0.23%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.44%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 18 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.85%) Driving Licence
6 13 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.94%) PMI
7 11 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.81%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.81%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.58%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.36%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.13%) Blog
13 4 (0.90%) BYOD
13 4 (0.90%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.90%) FMCG
14 3 (0.68%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (42.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 143 (32.35%) QMS
3 91 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 70 (15.84%) Roadmaps
6 66 (14.93%) AI
7 57 (12.90%) Service Delivery
8 56 (12.67%) ERP
9 54 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 52 (11.76%) Project Management
11 48 (10.86%) Analytics
11 48 (10.86%) Internal Audit
12 47 (10.63%) Coaching
12 47 (10.63%) Data Governance
12 47 (10.63%) Risk Management
13 46 (10.41%) Root Cause Analysis
14 41 (9.28%) Agile
15 40 (9.05%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (8.60%) Actionable Insight
16 38 (8.60%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.24%) SQL
2 27 (6.11%) Python
3 9 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.23%) ABAP
5 1 (0.23%) Perl
5 1 (0.23%) Scala
5 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 118 (26.70%) Degree
2 35 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.75%) DBS Check
6 15 (3.39%) IRCA
6 15 (3.39%) PMI Certification
7 14 (3.17%) HNC
8 12 (2.71%) Postgraduate
9 8 (1.81%) Chartered Engineer
9 8 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.58%) HND
11 6 (1.36%) ACCA
11 6 (1.36%) CISSP
11 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 4 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (33.48%) QA
2 98 (22.17%) ISO 9001
3 65 (14.71%) Data Quality
4 46 (10.41%) GDPR
5 33 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (5.20%) Accessibility
7 17 (3.85%) GMP
8 12 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (2.04%) ISO 14001
10 8 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (1.36%) ISO 22301
11 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 6 (1.36%) NIST
11 6 (1.36%) PCI DSS
12 5 (1.13%) PMO
13 4 (0.90%) AQAP
13 4 (0.90%) Automotive SPICE
13 4 (0.90%) ECSS
13 4 (0.90%) ISO 26262
14 3 (0.68%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 75 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 54 (12.22%) SAP
3 16 (3.62%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.71%) Oracle
5 10 (2.26%) Google
6 7 (1.58%) Rockwell
6 7 (1.58%) Siemens
7 5 (1.13%) Sage
7 5 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.90%) Informatica
9 3 (0.68%) NCR
9 3 (0.68%) Veritas
10 2 (0.45%) Avaya
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco
10 2 (0.45%) Databricks
10 2 (0.45%) Genesys
10 2 (0.45%) NEC
10 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.45%) Thales
10 2 (0.45%) Xero