QA Jobs in Belfast

Quality Assurance (QA)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 23 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 +53 -23
Permanent jobs citing QA 12 37 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 6.98% 7.24% 2.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.86% 63.79% 39.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 2
10th Percentile £67,250 £55,400 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,801 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile - £73,750 -
County Antrim median annual salary £82,801 £63,150 £65,000
% change year-on-year +31.12% -2.85% +23.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 28 58 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 16.28% 11.35% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 19 29
10th Percentile £64,129 £27,500 £33,600
25th Percentile £66,507 £30,248 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,901 £58,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.18% +17.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £92,396 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £71,750 £78,750
County Antrim median annual salary £78,901 £48,454 £50,000
% change year-on-year +62.84% -3.09% +21.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Belfast

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Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for QA in Belfast

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Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Belfast over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Boomi
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) Mocha
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) QA Officer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Business Development
3 2 (16.67%) CAPA
3 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Presales
3 2 (16.67%) QMS
3 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 2 (16.67%) System Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GMP
2 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow