QA Job Trends in Bradford

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -4
Permanent jobs citing QA 7 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Bradford 4.05% 1.28% 4.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.00% 16.67% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £54,000 - -
25th Percentile £58,125 £41,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -37.04% +125.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £43,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,000 - £76,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £63,250 £44,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +42.94% -34.44% +22.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 28 6 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bradford 16.18% 7.69% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 17
10th Percentile £31,900 - £45,600
25th Percentile £50,688 £35,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £38,750 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +67.74% -31.42% +15.31%
75th Percentile £81,250 £46,875 £71,250
90th Percentile - £52,500 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,958 £52,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year -2.94% -11.85% +13.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

QA job vacancy trend in Bradford

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Salary Trend in Bradford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Bradford

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Bradford over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Bradford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) HCL Notes
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Advertising
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (28.57%) WCF
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) LDAP
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) MVC
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) B2C
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Lotus
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) New Relic
3 1 (14.29%) Sage