QA Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 78 29
Rank change year-on-year +38 -49 +31
Permanent jobs citing QA 66 46 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.13% 2.28% 7.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 55.93% 15.49% 44.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 27 21
10th Percentile - £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £47,500 £42,894
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% +10.74% -22.01%
75th Percentile £106,875 £55,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £58,750 £61,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 118 297 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.97% 14.73% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 42 169 96
10th Percentile £26,075 £27,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,063 £52,500 £55,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £71,250 £69,375
South East median annual salary £62,000 £45,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year +37.02% -11.27% -2.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +13 3 - - 73
Newport Pagnell - 3 - -
Buckingham - 3 - -
Bletchley - 3 - - 1
Aylesbury +11 2 £50,000 - 2
Princes Risborough - 2 - -
High Wycombe +17 1 £95,000 +137.50% 65
Olney - 1 - -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.09%) Azure
2 5 (7.58%) AWS
3 4 (6.06%) GCP
4 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (37.88%) TCP/IP
1 25 (37.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (43.94%) Cucumber
2 25 (37.88%) Robot Framework
3 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
3 4 (6.06%) GitLab
3 4 (6.06%) JIRA
3 4 (6.06%) Maven
3 4 (6.06%) Selenium
3 4 (6.06%) SonarQube
3 4 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (90.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 31 (46.97%) Manufacturing
3 27 (40.91%) Social Skills
4 25 (37.88%) Telecoms
5 6 (9.09%) Finance
6 4 (6.06%) Banking
7 3 (4.55%) Retail
8 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Legal
8 2 (3.03%) Local Government
9 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (46.97%) Senior
2 25 (37.88%) Test Automation Engineer
2 25 (37.88%) Test Engineer
3 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
4 2 (3.03%) Project Manager
4 2 (3.03%) Records Manager
5 1 (1.52%) Head of Operations
5 1 (1.52%) Head of Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) CSS
1 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
1 4 (6.06%) HTML
1 4 (6.06%) JPA
1 4 (6.06%) Kafka
1 4 (6.06%) React
1 4 (6.06%) Redux
1 4 (6.06%) Spring
1 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (37.88%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (3.03%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.52%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.52%) FMCG
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (37.88%) Linux
1 25 (37.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (84.85%) Mentoring
2 31 (46.97%) CAD
2 31 (46.97%) Design for Manufacturing
3 29 (43.94%) DevOps
3 29 (43.94%) Test Automation
4 27 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (37.88%) Coaching
5 25 (37.88%) System Testing
5 25 (37.88%) Test Management
6 5 (7.58%) Agile
6 5 (7.58%) Software Engineering
7 4 (6.06%) Clean Code
7 4 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.06%) Customer Service
7 4 (6.06%) Front End Development
7 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (6.06%) Microservices
7 4 (6.06%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (6.06%) SDLC
7 4 (6.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) JavaScript
2 25 (37.88%) Bash
2 25 (37.88%) PowerShell
2 25 (37.88%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) Java
3 4 (6.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (84.85%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (6.06%) Solace
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle
2 1 (1.52%) Salesforce