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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 53 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 -34 +38
Permanent jobs citing QA 32 113 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.48% 3.60% 8.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.97% 27.16% 39.19%
Number of salaries quoted 17 87 72
10th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,800 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +0.09% +17.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £105,000 £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £53,688 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.39% - +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 229 416 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.72% 13.25% 21.58%
Number of salaries quoted 112 297 261
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £45,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,100 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +3.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £89,833 £86,485 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £52,387 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.22% - +9.95%

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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 25 June 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 (9.38%) CMS
1 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) Datadog
3 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (9.38%) Figma
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) 3GPP
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) MySQL
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.13%) HBase
3 1 (3.13%) Impala
3 1 (3.13%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (3.13%) QlikView
3 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) SQLite
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) GitLab
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
1 6 (18.75%) Selenium
2 3 (9.38%) Postman
2 3 (9.38%) WebDriver
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) NUnit
3 2 (6.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.13%) Appium
4 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.13%) Git
4 1 (3.13%) TestComplete
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Automotive
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.25%) Law
5 2 (6.25%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Games
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Lead
2 7 (21.88%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Test Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Product Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Project Director
5 3 (9.38%) Project Leader
5 3 (9.38%) SAP Project Leader
6 2 (6.25%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Software Tester
7 1 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
2 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.38%) Entity Framework
2 3 (9.38%) Playwright
2 3 (9.38%) React
3 2 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.13%) Bootstrap
4 1 (3.13%) CherryPy
4 1 (3.13%) Flask
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) Jest
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) PySpark
4 1 (3.13%) Redux
4 1 (3.13%) Shiny
4 1 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.38%) Driving Licence
2 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Android
1 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) Project Management
3 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
5 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
7 6 (18.75%) API Testing
7 6 (18.75%) DevOps
7 6 (18.75%) Scrum
7 6 (18.75%) Test Scripting
8 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (15.63%) Kanban
8 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
8 5 (15.63%) SDLC
8 5 (15.63%) Software Testing
8 5 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 4 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) C#
2 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Python
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) PROC SQL
6 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CBAP
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
1 3 (9.38%) LXC
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Flume
2 1 (3.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Kibana
2 1 (3.13%) logstash
2 1 (3.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 6 (18.75%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) Informatica
2 1 (3.13%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) UiPath