QA Job Trends in Canterbury

Quality Assurance (QA)
Kent > Canterbury

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Canterbury requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QA 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Canterbury 0.75% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median annual salary £45,000 £31,750 £37,000
% change year-on-year +41.73% -14.19% -41.27%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Canterbury

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 Canterbury.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Canterbury 3.73% - 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -15.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Canterbury

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

QA job vacancy trend in Canterbury

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Salary Trend in Canterbury

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Canterbury citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Canterbury citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canterbury 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI