QA Job Trends in Basingstoke

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Permanent jobs citing QA 10 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 2.38% - 1.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% - 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £42,475 - -
25th Percentile - - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.33%
75th Percentile - - £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £41,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -2.94% -26.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 30 16 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 7.13% 5.30% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 26 13 34
10th Percentile - £38,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% -24.83% +72.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,900 £87,500
Hampshire median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £48,793
% change year-on-year +2.50% +2.47% -11.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

QA job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

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Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Basingstoke

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (10.00%) Google Sheets
2 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) QA Manager
1 6 (60.00%) Quality Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CakePHP
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
1 3 (30.00%) HTML5
1 3 (30.00%) Laravel
1 3 (30.00%) Nuxt
1 3 (30.00%) Symfony
1 3 (30.00%) Vue
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (30.00%) CRM
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Debt
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Coaching
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) SOLID
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft