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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 425 415
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 +81
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 418 272 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.61% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 169 100 186
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £54,399
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +10.30% -9.34%
75th Percentile £57,250 £83,125 £78,564
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +15.38% -0.95%

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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +29 363 £45,000 -25.00% 208
UK excluding London +28 321 £45,000 -25.00% 178
North of England -42 101 £52,500 -20.89% 35
Midlands +35 84 £50,000 +19.05% 42
Work from Home -1 84 £50,000 -20.00% 58
London -27 74 £50,000 - 44
North West +54 62 £57,500 -13.36% 20
West Midlands +18 60 £50,000 +25.00% 24
South East -25 47 £36,500 -41.60% 46
South West -41 36 £41,250 -17.50% 14
East Midlands -9 24 £29,000 -33.63% 18
Yorkshire -96 22 £53,250 -23.93% 11
North East -38 17 £34,500 -28.13% 5
Scotland +24 16 £57,500 -39.47% 6
Northern Ireland - 16 - - 6
East of England -6 15 £40,000 -60.00% 32
Wales -59 6 - - 2

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 11 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 46 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.74%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (5.74%) SAP QM
2 19 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (4.07%) SAP ERP
4 8 (1.91%) SAP PP
5 6 (1.44%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.96%) Primavera
6 4 (0.96%) SAP EHS
7 3 (0.72%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.24%) FastStats
9 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 34 (8.13%) Azure
2 32 (7.66%) Power Platform
3 20 (4.78%) AWS
4 15 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
5 10 (2.39%) GCP
6 8 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.67%) SaaS
8 5 (1.20%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.96%) Smartsheet
10 3 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.72%) Collibra
10 3 (0.72%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.48%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.48%) GitHub
11 2 (0.48%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.48%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.96%) Network Security
2 2 (0.48%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.66%) Power BI
2 17 (4.07%) Metadata
3 14 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.91%) Power Query
4 8 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.20%) Tableau
7 3 (0.72%) MySQL
7 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.24%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (2.63%) JIRA
2 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 177 (42.34%) Social Skills
2 152 (36.36%) Finance
3 142 (33.97%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (25.84%) Manufacturing
5 35 (8.37%) Influencing Skills
6 34 (8.13%) Legal
7 30 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
7 30 (7.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 29 (6.94%) Aerospace
9 25 (5.98%) Retail
10 19 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (4.07%) Banking
12 14 (3.35%) Public Sector
13 10 (2.39%) Electronics
14 7 (1.67%) Advertising
14 7 (1.67%) Fire and Rescue
14 7 (1.67%) Law
14 7 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.44%) Military
16 5 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (17.22%) Head of QA
2 39 (9.33%) Quality Engineer
3 34 (8.13%) Lead
3 34 (8.13%) Senior
4 33 (7.89%) Quality Manager
5 27 (6.46%) Systems Engineer
5 27 (6.46%) Technologist
6 17 (4.07%) Analyst
7 16 (3.83%) QA Manager
8 14 (3.35%) Systems Manager
9 13 (3.11%) Administrator
9 13 (3.11%) Project Manager
9 13 (3.11%) QA Officer
10 11 (2.63%) Data Manager
10 11 (2.63%) Senior Quality Engineer
10 11 (2.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 10 (2.39%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 10 (2.39%) Operations Manager
12 9 (2.15%) QA Engineer
12 9 (2.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.07%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (2.15%) LangChain
2 9 (2.15%) LangGraph
2 9 (2.15%) PyTorch
2 9 (2.15%) scikit-learn
2 9 (2.15%) TensorFlow
3 3 (0.72%) Java RMI
4 2 (0.48%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (0.48%) Kafka
4 2 (0.48%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.24%) ADO
5 1 (0.24%) CSS
5 1 (0.24%) EDI
5 1 (0.24%) IDoc
5 1 (0.24%) NestJS
5 1 (0.24%) Playwright
5 1 (0.24%) PySpark
5 1 (0.24%) pytest
5 1 (0.24%) SvelteKit
5 1 (0.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (18.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (4.78%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.15%) PMI
6 8 (1.91%) Driving Licence
6 8 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.44%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.20%) Blog
9 4 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.96%) FMCG
9 4 (0.96%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.72%) Biopharmaceutical
10 3 (0.72%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.48%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.48%) Autonomous Agent
11 2 (0.48%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (47.61%) Continuous Improvement
2 139 (33.25%) QMS
3 100 (23.92%) Analytics
4 95 (22.73%) Service Delivery
5 93 (22.25%) Change Management
5 93 (22.25%) Root Cause Analysis
6 91 (21.77%) Actionable Insight
6 91 (21.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 89 (21.29%) PRINCE2
8 78 (18.66%) Customer Experience
9 72 (17.22%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 66 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (15.79%) Roadmaps
11 61 (14.59%) Decision-Making
12 54 (12.92%) AI
13 48 (11.48%) ERP
14 44 (10.53%) Project Management
15 40 (9.57%) Agile
16 39 (9.33%) Data Governance
17 37 (8.85%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.50%) SQL
2 22 (5.26%) Python
3 7 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (1.44%) ABAP
5 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.24%) Perl
6 1 (0.24%) Scala
6 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 77 (18.42%) Degree
2 73 (17.46%) IRCA
3 24 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (4.31%) DBS Check
5 13 (3.11%) Postgraduate
6 12 (2.87%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.87%) Security Cleared
7 10 (2.39%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.67%) Chartered Engineer
8 7 (1.67%) CISSP
9 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.20%) ACCA
11 4 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.96%) CCSP
11 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.96%) CRISC
11 4 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 4 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (45.22%) QA
2 121 (28.95%) ISO 9001
3 90 (21.53%) GDPR
4 60 (14.35%) Data Quality
5 24 (5.74%) Accessibility
6 20 (4.78%) GMP
7 16 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.20%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.20%) GxP
10 5 (1.20%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.20%) PMO
11 4 (0.96%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.96%) NIST
12 3 (0.72%) COSHH
12 3 (0.72%) GLP
12 3 (0.72%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.48%) IFRS
13 2 (0.48%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 51 (12.20%) SAP
3 11 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.15%) Google
5 5 (1.20%) Oracle
5 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.72%) Databricks
6 3 (0.72%) Informatica
6 3 (0.72%) Sage
7 2 (0.48%) Avaya
7 2 (0.48%) Cisco
7 2 (0.48%) Genesys
7 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.24%) Remedy