QA Job Trends in Abingdon

Quality Assurance (QA)
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Abingdon requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Permanent jobs citing QA 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Abingdon 0.78% - 0.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.14% - 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £56,556
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.64%
Oxfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +56.25% -27.27%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Abingdon

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Abingdon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 14 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Abingdon 10.85% - 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.05%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - £55,434
Oxfordshire median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% +22.22% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Abingdon.

QA job vacancy trend in Abingdon

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Salary Trend in Abingdon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware