QA Job Trends in Banbury

Quality Assurance (QA)
Oxfordshire > Banbury

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Banbury citing QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	14	-	19
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing QA	9	0	1
As % of all permanent jobs in Banbury	5.70%	-	0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	69.23%	-	33.33%
Number of salaries quoted	9	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£40,000	-	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	-
90^th Percentile	£44,750	-	-
Oxfordshire median annual salary	£52,500	£46,250	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+13.51%	+2.78%	-36.51%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Banbury

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 citing quality assurance or compliance skills in Banbury.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing quality assurance or compliance skills	13	1	3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Banbury	8.23%	2.08%	2.83%
Number of salaries quoted	13	1	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	£71,250	£72,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£40,000	£72,500	£75,000
Median % change year-on-year	-44.83%	-3.33%	+15.38%
75^th Percentile	£61,250	£73,750	£77,500
90^th Percentile	£98,750	-	-
Oxfordshire median annual salary	£62,500	£41,500	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+50.60%	-20.95%	-4.55%

QA Job Vacancy Trend in Banbury

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

QA Salary Trend in Banbury

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Banbury citing QA.

QA Salary Histogram in Banbury

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Banbury over the 6 months to 14 November 2026.

QA Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Banbury

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, job vacancies citing QA also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Banbury region citing QA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	100.0%	9
2	Agile	11.1%	1
2	CI/CD	11.1%	1
2	Code Quality	11.1%	1
2	DevOps	11.1%	1
2	High Availability	11.1%	1
2	JavaScript	11.1%	1
2	QA Automation	11.1%	1
2	Release Management	11.1%	1
2	SDET	11.1%	1
2	SDLC	11.1%	1
2	SGI	11.1%	1
2	Software Engineering	11.1%	1
2	Software Quality Assurance	11.1%	1
2	Software Testing	11.1%	1
2	Test Automation	11.1%	1
2	Test Strategy	11.1%	1
2	TypeScript	11.1%	1

QA Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Banbury by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Software Quality Assurance	11.1%	1