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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 47 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing QA 2 5 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 0.59% 0.95% 4.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.41% 10.42% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile - - £58,500
25th Percentile £78,750 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.89%
75th Percentile £86,250 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £41,250 £40,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -46.67% +50.00%

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 37 48 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 10.85% 9.16% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 33 33 50
10th Percentile £50,250 £35,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £56,500 £60,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +78.57% -11.58%
75th Percentile £59,500 £87,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £86,250 - £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +13.30%

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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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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Head of Development
1 2 (100.00%) Head of Software Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) Kendo UI
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (50.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree