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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 401 417
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 +41
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 382 297 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.67% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.72% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 141 110 311
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,897 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +9.79% -16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,313 £69,429
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,375 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +29.41% -15.00%

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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -24 331 £45,249 -11.71% 140
UK excluding London +24 292 £45,000 -18.18% 117
North of England -44 94 £56,500 +32.16% 36
Midlands +61 83 £45,000 +12.50% 31
Work from Home +23 80 £50,000 -20.00% 35
London -44 66 £70,500 +41.00% 33
North West +54 57 £60,000 -9.59% 21
West Midlands +22 51 £50,000 +25.00% 22
South East -28 38 £36,500 -40.41% 24
South West -30 33 £41,250 -11.29% 13
East Midlands +8 32 £29,000 -30.95% 9
Yorkshire -106 21 £56,500 +50.67% 11
North East -35 16 £34,500 -28.13% 4
Scotland +13 14 £42,500 -43.33% 1
Northern Ireland - 12 - - 1
East of England -12 10 £40,000 -60.00% 14
Wales -41 8 £25,400 -47.90% 3

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 7 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 46 (12.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Fusion 360
4 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (6.81%) SAP QM
2 19 (4.97%) SAP ERP
2 19 (4.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.57%) Q-Pulse
3 6 (1.57%) SAP PP
4 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.52%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.26%) FastStats
6 1 (0.26%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG-M
6 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 22 (5.76%) Azure
2 16 (4.19%) Power Platform
3 12 (3.14%) AWS
4 10 (2.62%) GCP
4 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (1.83%) SaaS
6 5 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.79%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.52%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.52%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.52%) Zapier
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.26%) Collibra
9 1 (0.26%) Dagster
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.26%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.05%) Network Security
2 2 (0.52%) Internet
3 1 (0.26%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.19%) Power BI
2 15 (3.93%) Metadata
3 7 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.05%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.79%) Tableau
6 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.52%) MySQL
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.52%) Power Query
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.26%) Big Data
7 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.05%) JIRA
2 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 181 (47.38%) Social Skills
2 140 (36.65%) Finance
3 123 (32.20%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (24.08%) Manufacturing
5 45 (11.78%) Influencing Skills
6 32 (8.38%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (6.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 20 (5.24%) Legal
9 18 (4.71%) Aerospace
9 18 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (4.45%) Banking
10 17 (4.45%) Retail
11 11 (2.88%) Electronics
12 9 (2.36%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.83%) Advertising
13 7 (1.83%) Law
14 6 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.57%) Local Government
15 5 (1.31%) Marketing
15 5 (1.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (18.85%) Head of QA
2 35 (9.16%) Quality Engineer
3 34 (8.90%) Senior
4 33 (8.64%) Technologist
5 28 (7.33%) Quality Manager
6 25 (6.54%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (5.24%) Lead
8 16 (4.19%) Administrator
8 16 (4.19%) Analyst
8 16 (4.19%) Systems Manager
9 13 (3.40%) Audit Manager
10 12 (3.14%) QA Officer
11 11 (2.88%) QA Manager
11 11 (2.88%) Senior Manager
11 11 (2.88%) Senior Quality Engineer
11 11 (2.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 10 (2.62%) Architect
12 10 (2.62%) Project Manager
13 9 (2.36%) Support Engineer
13 9 (2.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.97%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (1.57%) LangChain
2 6 (1.57%) LangGraph
2 6 (1.57%) PyTorch
2 6 (1.57%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.57%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.52%) Kafka
3 2 (0.52%) Web Services
4 1 (0.26%) .NET
4 1 (0.26%) ADO
4 1 (0.26%) IDoc
4 1 (0.26%) Java RMI
4 1 (0.26%) Playwright
4 1 (0.26%) PySpark
4 1 (0.26%) pytest
4 1 (0.26%) REST
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 79 (20.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.57%) Cyberattack
5 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.31%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.05%) FMCG
7 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.05%) Life Science
8 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.52%) IVR
9 2 (0.52%) PMI
9 2 (0.52%) Robotics
10 1 (0.26%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.26%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.26%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (45.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 128 (33.51%) QMS
3 96 (25.13%) Analytics
4 92 (24.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 91 (23.82%) Root Cause Analysis
6 87 (22.77%) Actionable Insight
7 86 (22.51%) Change Management
8 84 (21.99%) Service Delivery
9 81 (21.20%) PRINCE2
10 76 (19.90%) Customer Experience
11 72 (18.85%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 45 (11.78%) Roadmaps
13 44 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (10.73%) Coaching
15 39 (10.21%) Internal Audit
16 37 (9.69%) Decision-Making
17 36 (9.42%) AI
18 33 (8.64%) Project Management
19 32 (8.38%) ERP
20 31 (8.12%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.66%) SQL
2 11 (2.88%) Python
3 9 (2.36%) ABAP
4 1 (0.26%) C#
4 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.26%) Scala
4 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (18.85%) IRCA
2 55 (14.40%) Degree
3 19 (4.97%) DBS Check
4 18 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.36%) ACCA
5 9 (2.36%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.09%) Postgraduate
6 8 (2.09%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.57%) CISSP
8 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.31%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.05%) CCSP
10 4 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.05%) CRISC
10 4 (1.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.79%) CCA
11 3 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (46.07%) QA
2 113 (29.58%) ISO 9001
3 88 (23.04%) GDPR
4 46 (12.04%) Data Quality
5 23 (6.02%) Accessibility
6 19 (4.97%) GMP
7 12 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (1.31%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.31%) COSHH
9 5 (1.31%) GxP
9 5 (1.31%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.31%) NIST
10 4 (1.05%) IFRS
10 4 (1.05%) ISO 13485
11 3 (0.79%) GLP
11 3 (0.79%) Good Clinical Practice
11 3 (0.79%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.52%) GAMP
12 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.79%) Terraform
2 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.99%) SAP
3 7 (1.83%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.05%) Google
6 3 (0.79%) Databricks
6 3 (0.79%) Informatica
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle
7 2 (0.52%) Workday
8 1 (0.26%) Genesys
8 1 (0.26%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.26%) Sage
8 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software