QA Job Trends in Burton-upon-Trent

Quality Assurance (QA)
Staffordshire > Burton-upon-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Burton-upon-Trent requiring QA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing QA 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Burton-upon-Trent 1.06% 1.56% 1.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% 5.56% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +200.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £25,500
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £53,688 £60,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -10.52% +71.43% -24.32%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Burton-upon-Trent

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 Burton-upon-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8 18 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Burton-upon-Trent 8.51% 28.13% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 5
10th Percentile £46,100 £23,100 £29,200
25th Percentile £51,500 £24,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% +46.67%
75th Percentile £64,063 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,625 £63,750 £70,250
Staffordshire median annual salary £42,500 £28,119 £45,000
% change year-on-year +51.14% -37.51% +5.88%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Burton-upon-Trent

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Burton-upon-Trent.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Burton-upon-Trent

QA
Salary Trend in Burton-upon-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Burton-upon-Trent citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Burton-upon-Trent citing QA

QA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Burton-upon-Trent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft