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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Permanent jobs citing QA 6 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Abingdon 3.39% - 1.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.43% - 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54,031
25th Percentile £46,250 - £54,452
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 - £57,028
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £60,077
90th Percentile - - £60,781
Oxfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +38.89% -20.00%

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 28 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Abingdon 15.82% - 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21 0 6
10th Percentile £46,250 - £22,000
25th Percentile £65,000 - £29,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £55,855
90th Percentile - - £58,903
Oxfordshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +15.79% -5.00%

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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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Salary Histogram in Abingdon

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Abingdon over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Abingdon

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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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Software Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Life Science
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GitOps
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) CSQA
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware