QA Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 49 16
Rank change year-on-year +17 -33 +18
Permanent jobs citing QA 30 54 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.04% 3.27% 12.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.25% 31.40% 60.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12 35 17
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 -
25th Percentile £45,250 £36,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,000 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +55.17% -38.95%
75th Percentile £59,438 £69,375 £48,750
90th Percentile £64,500 £75,000 £73,500
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £43,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year +21.14% +2.94% -10.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 71 172 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.29% 10.42% 20.77%
Number of salaries quoted 40 125 70
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,820 £25,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,211 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.61% -3.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,738 £75,000 £70,400
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £44,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.34% -23.04% +15.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Cambridgeshire

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Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Cambridgeshire

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Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Cambridgeshire

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Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cambridge +25 15 £53,000 +24.71% 32
Peterborough +5 9 £50,000 - 3
St Neots - 1 - -
Huntingdon - 1 £65,000 -
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
2 2 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (3.33%) Asana
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (3.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (16.67%) Selenium
3 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) Maven
3 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.33%) Moq
4 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (23.33%) Law
4 6 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (16.67%) Banking
5 5 (16.67%) Legal
6 4 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (10.00%) Finance
8 1 (3.33%) Electronics
8 1 (3.33%) Military
8 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Lead
2 9 (30.00%) Senior
3 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Developer
6 3 (10.00%) QA Leader
6 3 (10.00%) QA Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) .NET
1 4 (13.33%) .NET Framework
1 4 (13.33%) Entity Framework
2 3 (10.00%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) Web Services
3 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (6.67%) CSS
3 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.67%) HTML
3 2 (6.67%) JPA
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (6.67%) LINQ
3 2 (6.67%) React
3 2 (6.67%) Redux
3 2 (6.67%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) Swagger
4 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) Biopharmaceutical
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Robotics
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
1 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
2 9 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 9 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 9 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (26.67%) Asset Management
3 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (23.33%) SDLC
5 6 (20.00%) DevOps
5 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (20.00%) Workflow
5 6 (20.00%) Workflow Management
6 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (13.33%) Project Management
6 4 (13.33%) TDD
6 4 (13.33%) Time Management
6 4 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) C#
3 4 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GMP
1 3 (10.00%) GxP
2 1 (3.33%) CDISC
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Autodesk
2 2 (6.67%) Solace
3 1 (3.33%) Facebook
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle