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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 46 45
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -18
Permanent jobs citing QA 17 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 3.48% 0.69% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 44.74% 10.53% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £38,650 - -
25th Percentile £43,750 £78,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £82,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £86,250 -
90th Percentile £67,500 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.31% +16.11% -40.00%

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 38 19 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 7.79% 6.57% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 32 16 32
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,177 £50,938 £54,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -25.00% +78.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,750 -
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +0.92% +5.83% -6.36%

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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 9 October 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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) ChatGPT
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Google Gemini
3 2 (11.76%) Google Sheets
3 2 (11.76%) Google Workspace
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) ESLint
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Storybook
2 2 (11.76%) Vite
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
1 7 (41.18%) PHP Developer
2 6 (35.29%) QA Manager
2 6 (35.29%) Quality Manager
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior PHP Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Junior
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) CSS
1 9 (52.94%) Laravel
1 9 (52.94%) Vue
2 8 (47.06%) Nuxt
3 7 (41.18%) CakePHP
3 7 (41.18%) HTML
3 7 (41.18%) HTML5
3 7 (41.18%) Symfony
4 4 (23.53%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) Node.js
5 2 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) CRM
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
3 7 (41.18%) Clean Code
3 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 7 (41.18%) Scrum
3 7 (41.18%) Technical Debt
3 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
4 6 (35.29%) SOLID
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Coaching
6 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Event-Driven
6 4 (23.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (23.53%) Software Architecture
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
1 9 (52.94%) PHP
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft