QA Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 45 54
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -38
Permanent jobs citing QA 17 37 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.95% 4.23% 2.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.37% 28.24% 27.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16 19 9
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,000 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -2.78% -13.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £50,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £36,500 £61,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -36.36% +22.22%

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 76 131 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.74% 14.99% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 54 52 38
10th Percentile - £30,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,370 £34,000 £32,754
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £64,375 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,575 £80,000 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

QA job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 2026. 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 +9 14 £60,000 +67.83% 13
Peterborough -20 1 £30,000 -14.29% 11
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JMeter
1 2 (11.76%) Postman
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Test Automation Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Test Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Lead
2 7 (41.18%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior Test Engineer
3 6 (35.29%) Python Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Business Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst Team Leader
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Business Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) QA Leader
6 1 (5.88%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) React
1 4 (23.53%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) e-Learning
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) PropTech
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) Requirements Gathering
1 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
2 7 (41.18%) API Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) Test Strategy
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (23.53%) Kanban
4 4 (23.53%) OO
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Product Vision
4 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 4 (23.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (23.53%) Scrum-ban
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) UX Design
4 4 (23.53%) Web Development
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) DBS Check
2 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes