QA Jobs in Cambridge

Quality Assurance (QA)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 53 13
Rank change year-on-year +25 -40 +21
Permanent jobs citing QA 16 32 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 6.45% 3.15% 15.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% 33.33% 77.40%
Number of salaries quoted 8 21 3
10th Percentile £36,700 - £50,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £42,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -34.62% +23.81%
75th Percentile £54,750 £75,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £66,000 - £82,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £53,000 £45,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year +17.78% +55.17% -38.95%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 32 96 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 12.90% 9.44% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 19 75 22
10th Percentile - £24,467 £27,050
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £27,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.24% -6.11%
75th Percentile £63,125 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,000 £78,500 £85,625
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £53,000 £38,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +37.66% -3.75% -20.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Cambridge

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Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for QA in Cambridge

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Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Cambridge over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Serverless
2 1 (6.25%) Asana
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) Moq
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (43.75%) Law
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Legal
4 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) QA Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) QA Leader
3 3 (18.75%) QA Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Backend Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software QA Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
1 3 (18.75%) Entity Framework
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (12.50%) LINQ
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) FHIR
3 1 (6.25%) gRPC
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
3 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Robotics
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Biotechnology
4 3 (18.75%) Chemistry
4 3 (18.75%) Defect Tracking
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Internal Audit
4 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (18.75%) SDLC
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
4 3 (18.75%) Time Management
4 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C#
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GMP
1 3 (18.75%) GxP
2 1 (6.25%) CDISC
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) ANSYS