QA Job Trends in Ballymena

Quality Assurance (QA)
County Antrim > Ballymena

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Ballymena requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QA 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Ballymena 21.43% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 75.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median annual salary £77,500 £82,801 £58,800
% change year-on-year -6.40% +40.82% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Ballymena

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 Ballymena.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Ballymena 28.57% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median annual salary £45,000 £75,000 £54,408
% change year-on-year -40.00% +37.85% +8.82%

QA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ballymena 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 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Legal Technology
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript