QA Jobs in Bolton

Quality Assurance (QA)
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bolton 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 35 28 3
Rank change year-on-year -7 -25 -
Permanent jobs citing QA 9 2 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 6.47% 1.55% 44.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.65% 8.70% 92.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 2
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% -
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bolton

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 Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 51 23 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 36.69% 17.83% 48.23%
Number of salaries quoted 38 20 7
10th Percentile - £25,925 £24,000
25th Percentile £25,480 £31,250 £26,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £29,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +86.44% -41.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £69,375 £56,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £60,000
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% +3.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Bolton

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Salary Trend in Bolton

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

Salary trend for QA in Bolton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bolton 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (66.67%) MS Visio
1 6 (66.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (33.33%) Maven
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 3 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) JPA
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) Redux
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) CSS3
2 2 (22.22%) HTML5
2 2 (22.22%) Jest
2 2 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Sass
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Social Media
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Business Case
2 6 (66.67%) Business Process Improvement
2 6 (66.67%) Business Transformation
2 6 (66.67%) Change Management
2 6 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 6 (66.67%) Demand Management
2 6 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 6 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 6 (66.67%) Project Governance
2 6 (66.67%) Project Management
2 6 (66.67%) Project Planning
2 6 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 6 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (66.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) DBS Check
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
1 6 (66.67%) PMI Certification
1 6 (66.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Solace