QA Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Permanent jobs citing QA 15 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedfordshire 5.19% - 3.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 45.45% - 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile £40,000 - £49,500
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.43%
75th Percentile £50,000 - £58,750
90th Percentile £68,000 - -
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +42.86% -39.13% +27.78%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 33 32 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 11.42% 7.92% 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18 16 34
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £46,250 £25,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £71,250 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +68.64% -13.33%
75th Percentile £55,250 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,375 £88,375 £76,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +8.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

QA job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

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Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Bedfordshire

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Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dunstable - 3 £45,000 - 2
Henlow - 3 £50,000 - 1
Leighton Buzzard - 3 £40,000 -
Luton - 2 £85,000 - 1
QA
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Metadata
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (13.33%) Electronics
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (13.33%) Marketing
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (13.33%) Retail
1 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) QA Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) QA Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Quality Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) JSON
1 3 (20.00%) Pandas
1 3 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Reference Data
1 3 (20.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Data Management
1 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (20.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (20.00%) RDF
1 3 (20.00%) Reference Data Management
1 3 (20.00%) Validation
2 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) Coaching
3 1 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Data Development
3 1 (6.67%) ETL
3 1 (6.67%) Kanban
3 1 (6.67%) People Management
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) SAP