QA Job Trends in Bridgwater

Quality Assurance (QA)
Somerset > Bridgwater

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bridgwater requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QA 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Bridgwater 2.86% - 24.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.00% - 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
75th Percentile £42,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £15,000
% change year-on-year - +166.67% -72.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bridgwater

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 Bridgwater.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bridgwater 11.43% - 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £38,375 - -
25th Percentile £39,688 - £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 - £30,710
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.82%
75th Percentile £47,188 - £36,919
90th Percentile £48,125 - -
Somerset median annual salary £37,500 £55,000 £49,898
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.23% -0.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bridgwater

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

QA job vacancy trend in Bridgwater

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgwater 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB