QA Jobs in Bristol

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 34 61
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 +76
Permanent jobs citing QA 120 204 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.72% 7.90% 4.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.32% 43.87% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 86 45 114
10th Percentile £31,625 £31,250 £35,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £80,125
South West median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bristol

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 474 465 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.69% 18.02% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 336 236 420
10th Percentile £36,000 £35,734 £31,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,202 £57,289 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% +7.86% +11.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £90,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Bristol

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Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for QA in Bristol

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Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Bristol over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (3.33%) CMS
1 4 (3.33%) Drupal
2 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.67%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.83%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.83%) Azure
2 33 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (25.00%) AWS
4 11 (9.17%) GCP
4 11 (9.17%) SaaS
5 5 (4.17%) IaaS
5 5 (4.17%) PaaS
6 2 (1.67%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.67%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (1.67%) Serverless
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.83%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.67%) BigQuery
3 8 (6.67%) Looker
4 5 (4.17%) Data Mining
4 5 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.67%) Tableau
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (17.50%) Visual Studio
2 13 (10.83%) Git
3 12 (10.00%) Selenium
4 5 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.17%) JIRA
5 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.50%) Appium
6 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.50%) JMeter
6 3 (2.50%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.67%) JDeveloper
7 2 (1.67%) Postman
7 2 (1.67%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.67%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.83%) Gatling
8 1 (0.83%) JBehave
8 1 (0.83%) JUnit
8 1 (0.83%) Moq
General
1 38 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (24.17%) Manufacturing
3 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.67%) Billing
6 8 (6.67%) Legal
6 8 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.00%) Publishing
8 5 (4.17%) Finance
9 4 (3.33%) Tech for Good
10 3 (2.50%) Automotive
10 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.50%) Local Government
11 2 (1.67%) Banking
11 2 (1.67%) Games
11 2 (1.67%) Law
11 2 (1.67%) Marketing
11 2 (1.67%) Military
11 2 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (22.50%) Developer
2 25 (20.83%) Lead
3 19 (15.83%) .NET Developer
3 19 (15.83%) Senior
4 12 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
5 10 (8.33%) QA Manager
5 10 (8.33%) Quality Manager
6 9 (7.50%) QA Leader
7 8 (6.67%) Data Manager
7 8 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Technologist
8 7 (5.83%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior .NET Software Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Associate Director
10 5 (4.17%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (4.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.67%) .NET
1 26 (21.67%) CSS
1 26 (21.67%) HTML
2 22 (18.33%) React
3 21 (17.50%) AngularJS
4 16 (13.33%) ASP.NET
5 15 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 15 (12.50%) jQuery
5 15 (12.50%) KnockoutJS
5 15 (12.50%) Vue
6 7 (5.83%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 6 (5.00%) WPF
7 6 (5.00%) XML
7 6 (5.00%) XSD
7 6 (5.00%) XSLT
8 5 (4.17%) Laravel
9 4 (3.33%) Playwright
9 4 (3.33%) REST
10 3 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.67%) Biopharmaceutical
3 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.00%) NHS
4 3 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.83%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.50%) Windows
2 2 (1.67%) Android
2 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.50%) Agile
2 42 (35.00%) DevOps
3 35 (29.17%) Scrum
4 31 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (17.50%) CI/CD
5 21 (17.50%) MVC
6 19 (15.83%) Design Patterns
7 16 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 16 (13.33%) Validation
8 15 (12.50%) Clean Code
8 15 (12.50%) Project Management
9 14 (11.67%) Computer Science
9 14 (11.67%) Mentoring
9 14 (11.67%) Secure Coding
10 13 (10.83%) Change Control
10 13 (10.83%) Coaching
10 13 (10.83%) ETL
10 13 (10.83%) Line Management
11 12 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (9.17%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 26 (21.67%) C#
3 8 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 7 (5.83%) Java
4 7 (5.83%) Python
5 6 (5.00%) SQL
6 5 (4.17%) PHP
7 4 (3.33%) Ruby
8 2 (1.67%) Bash
8 2 (1.67%) Go
8 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.67%) Perl
8 2 (1.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (25.83%) Degree
2 10 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.67%) MBA
4 2 (1.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.83%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) GMP
2 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.83%) SLA
Vendors
1 22 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.33%) Google
3 8 (6.67%) SAP
4 5 (4.17%) Oracle