QA Jobs in Birmingham

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 53 17
Rank change year-on-year -19 -36 +57
Permanent jobs citing QA 31 102 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.35% 3.53% 9.86%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.30% 25.50% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 18 92 80
10th Percentile £42,125 £37,500 £22,750
25th Percentile £45,875 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,800 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +6.91% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,938 £73,893
90th Percentile £88,833 £104,250 £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £53,688 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.26% -4.55% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 252 400 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.12% 13.85% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 112 307 288
10th Percentile £41,375 £36,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,468 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,438 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,833 £86,485 £84,125
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +8.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Birmingham

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Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for QA in Birmingham

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Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Datadog
3 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (9.68%) Figma
3 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) MySQL
1 3 (9.68%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) GitLab
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 5 (16.13%) Selenium
3 3 (9.68%) Postman
3 3 (9.68%) WebDriver
4 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.45%) NUnit
4 2 (6.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.23%) Appium
5 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.23%) TestComplete
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Automotive
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Games
5 2 (6.45%) Law
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
1 8 (25.81%) Lead
2 6 (19.35%) Test Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Product Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Project Director
3 3 (9.68%) Project Leader
3 3 (9.68%) SAP Project Leader
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Lead Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Lead PHP Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Lead Test Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) PHP Developer
4 2 (6.45%) QA Officer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
2 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.68%) Entity Framework
2 3 (9.68%) Playwright
2 3 (9.68%) React
3 2 (6.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) Bootstrap
4 1 (3.23%) CherryPy
4 1 (3.23%) Flask
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) Jest
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) Redux
4 1 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.68%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.68%) Driving Licence
2 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Android
1 3 (9.68%) Apple iOS
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Agile
2 11 (35.48%) Project Management
3 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.81%) DevOps
4 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
5 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
5 7 (22.58%) SDLC
5 7 (22.58%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (19.35%) Scrum
6 6 (19.35%) Test Scripting
7 5 (16.13%) API Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Kanban
7 5 (16.13%) Roadmaps
7 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.90%) Manual Testing
8 4 (12.90%) TDD
8 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) C#
2 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
3 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) PHP
4 2 (6.45%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) ISTQB
2 4 (12.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) CBAP
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GMP
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
1 3 (9.68%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) SAP
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) UiPath