QA Jobs in Bedford

Quality Assurance (QA)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedford requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Permanent jobs citing QA 4 0 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 5.88% - 29.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 40.00% - 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £43,500
25th Percentile - - £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.15%
75th Percentile - - £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary - £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +14.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedford

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 Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10 13 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 14.71% 9.03% 31.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 6
10th Percentile £59,750 £17,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £63,125 £21,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £22,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +211.11% -63.27% +15.57%
75th Percentile £75,625 £28,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £55,500 £82,500
Bedfordshire median annual salary £70,000 £42,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +65.68% -26.52% +8.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Bedford

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Salary Trend in Bedford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Bedford.

Salary trend for QA in Bedford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Product Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (50.00%) Life Science
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) People Management
2 2 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) QMS
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Design for Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) IEC 62304
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Solace