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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 339 535
Rank change year-on-year +5 +196 -153
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 378 486 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.71% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.87% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 71 135 96
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £34,375
25th Percentile £42,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,425 £77,813
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £98,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,084 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% -11.60% +8.51%

All Process and 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 44,012 56,127 49,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.78% 82.46% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,595 29,580 38,351
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,871
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,625 £54,383 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.26% +3.59% -

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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
UK excluding London +87 304 £50,000 +10.90% 190
England -8 296 £50,000 -11.52% 217
South East +85 105 £68,750 +21.66% 92
North of England +35 87 £55,000 +29.41% 11
Yorkshire +66 71 - - 1
Scotland +36 71 £42,217 -14.71% 17
Work from Home +46 67 £65,000 +0.23% 89
London -83 63 £50,000 -28.57% 75
Midlands +38 20 £45,390 +0.49% 28
West Midlands +41 14 £42,695 -26.70% 13
South West +14 13 £59,000 +16.26% 21
North West +7 13 £56,500 +41.25% 8
East Midlands +19 6 £45,390 +13.48% 13
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 5
North East -5 3 £48,000 +41.18% 2
East of England -8 3 £36,750 -18.33% 17
Wales +7 1 £65,000 +109.68% 1

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 71 (18.78%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.06%) CMS
3 2 (0.53%) HCL Notes
3 2 (0.53%) IIS
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Apache
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 98 (25.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (21.16%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (19.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 74 (19.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.44%) SAP PP
3 12 (3.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (1.06%) Primavera
4 4 (1.06%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.79%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.79%) SAP EHS
5 3 (0.79%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.79%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.79%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.53%) C-CURE
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.53%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.53%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
7 1 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.26%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.05%) Power Platform
2 35 (9.26%) Azure
3 12 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (3.17%) GitHub
3 12 (3.17%) SaaS
4 5 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.06%) Collibra
6 3 (0.79%) AWS
6 3 (0.79%) Azure Stack
7 2 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.53%) GCP
8 1 (0.26%) Alation
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.26%) OCI
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (0.26%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.26%) Serverless
8 1 (0.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) 3GPP
1 4 (1.06%) Intranet
2 3 (0.79%) Internet
3 2 (0.53%) RS-485
4 1 (0.26%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) Modbus
4 1 (0.26%) RS-232
4 1 (0.26%) VLAN
4 1 (0.26%) VPN
4 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.26%) Wireless
4 1 (0.26%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.05%) Power BI
2 31 (8.20%) SAP BW
3 30 (7.94%) Data Lake
4 15 (3.97%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.06%) Metadata
6 4 (1.06%) Tableau
7 3 (0.79%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.53%) MySQL
9 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.26%) QlikView
9 1 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (0.26%) Git
General
1 192 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 168 (44.44%) Finance
3 153 (40.48%) Manufacturing
4 73 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (16.14%) Marketing
6 19 (5.03%) Retail
7 15 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.70%) Legal
9 12 (3.17%) Back Office
10 10 (2.65%) Law
10 10 (2.65%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.12%) Electronics
12 7 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.85%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.32%) Automotive
13 5 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.06%) Aviation
14 4 (1.06%) Games
15 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (39.68%) Senior
2 101 (26.72%) Analyst
3 85 (22.49%) Quality Manager
4 81 (21.43%) Senior Manager
5 76 (20.11%) Senior Quality Manager
6 64 (16.93%) QA Manager
6 64 (16.93%) Senior QA Manager
6 64 (16.93%) Systems Engineer
7 62 (16.40%) SAP Analyst
7 62 (16.40%) Senior Analyst
8 60 (15.87%) Automation Engineer
9 28 (7.41%) Report Analyst
9 28 (7.41%) Sustainability Analyst
10 20 (5.29%) Lead
11 15 (3.97%) Developer
12 13 (3.44%) Consultant
13 12 (3.17%) SAP Consultant
14 11 (2.91%) Dynamics NAV Developer
14 11 (2.91%) SaaS Developer
15 9 (2.38%) Senior Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.17%) XML
2 4 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (0.79%) RESTEasy
4 2 (0.53%) .NET
4 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (0.53%) WCF
5 1 (0.26%) CSS
5 1 (0.26%) HTML
5 1 (0.26%) NestJS
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.26%) SAPUI5
5 1 (0.26%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 70 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 62 (16.40%) Operational Technology
3 60 (15.87%) FMCG
3 60 (15.87%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 12 (3.17%) NHS
4 12 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.65%) Driving Licence
6 7 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.79%) CCTV
8 3 (0.79%) IoT
9 2 (0.53%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.53%) Life Science
9 2 (0.53%) PDA
9 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.26%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.26%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.26%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.26%) Debian
2 1 (0.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.26%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (48.68%) Problem-Solving
2 167 (44.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 117 (30.95%) Data Collection
4 93 (24.60%) Project Management
5 77 (20.37%) Coaching
6 76 (20.11%) Data Management
7 73 (19.31%) Six Sigma
8 68 (17.99%) Logistics
9 64 (16.93%) Customer Experience
9 64 (16.93%) Due Diligence
9 64 (16.93%) Lean Six Sigma
9 64 (16.93%) Performance Improvement
10 63 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 61 (16.14%) Budgeting
11 61 (16.14%) Energy Management
12 59 (15.61%) Incident Management
12 59 (15.61%) User Acceptance Testing
13 58 (15.34%) SAP Implementation
13 58 (15.34%) Translating Business Requirements
14 57 (15.08%) Decision Quality
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.70%) C#
1 14 (3.70%) SQL
2 12 (3.17%) C
2 12 (3.17%) Java
3 6 (1.59%) R
4 5 (1.32%) ABAP
5 2 (0.53%) C++
5 2 (0.53%) Python
5 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.26%) Perl
6 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (23.02%) Degree
2 65 (17.20%) HNC
3 64 (16.93%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 31 (8.20%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.38%) ACCA
7 9 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.12%) SAP Certification
9 5 (1.32%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.32%) HND
9 5 (1.32%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 5 (1.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 5 (1.32%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
10 4 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.79%) APMG
12 2 (0.53%) City & Guilds
13 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (26.72%) QA
2 51 (13.49%) Data Quality
3 39 (10.32%) ISO 9001
4 20 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.91%) PMO
6 9 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.38%) IFRS
7 8 (2.12%) GMP
8 6 (1.59%) ISO 14001
9 5 (1.32%) GDPR
9 5 (1.32%) GxP
9 5 (1.32%) ISO 13485
10 4 (1.06%) NCSC
11 3 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.53%) AQAP
12 2 (0.53%) GRC
12 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.53%) SLA
13 1 (0.26%) GLP
System Software
1 1 (0.26%) Docker
1 1 (0.26%) Firmware
1 1 (0.26%) iptables
Systems Management
1 2 (0.53%) Terraform
2 1 (0.26%) Ansible
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 117 (30.95%) SAP
2 101 (26.72%) Microsoft
3 60 (15.87%) Rockwell
3 60 (15.87%) Siemens
4 6 (1.59%) Oracle
5 5 (1.32%) Databricks
6 4 (1.06%) Google
6 4 (1.06%) IFS
6 4 (1.06%) Informatica
7 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.79%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.53%) Cognos
8 2 (0.53%) Lotus
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco
9 1 (0.26%) EMC
9 1 (0.26%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.26%) MikroTik