QA Jobs in Central London

Quality Assurance (QA)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 59 39
Rank change year-on-year -25 -20 -13
Permanent jobs citing QA 84 161 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.31% 4.26% 6.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.29% 31.38% 41.89%
Number of salaries quoted 47 141 323
10th Percentile £45,050 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,500 £112,500 £102,500
London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +3.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 414 513 869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 16.30% 13.56% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 208 406 751
10th Percentile £42,350 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,125 £105,000 £102,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Central London

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Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for QA in Central London

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Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Central London

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Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
City of London -31 54 £75,000 - 30
Camden - 12 - - 1
Southwark - 5 - -
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 7 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.57%) CMS
3 2 (2.38%) CoreMedia CMS
3 2 (2.38%) Liferay
3 2 (2.38%) nginx
3 2 (2.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.19%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.19%) Azure
2 13 (15.48%) GitHub
2 13 (15.48%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (13.10%) AWS
4 9 (10.71%) GCP
5 3 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.38%) SaaS
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.19%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.19%) Serverless
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) Multicast
2 2 (2.38%) DNS
2 2 (2.38%) VLAN
3 1 (1.19%) Firewall
3 1 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) MySQL
2 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.95%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.38%) Power BI
5 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.19%) EDRMS
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.19%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.19%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.19%) OLAP
6 1 (1.19%) OLTP
6 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (20.24%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) Gradle
3 9 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 6 (7.14%) JIRA
5 6 (7.14%) Maven
6 5 (5.95%) Postman
7 4 (4.76%) SoapUI
8 3 (3.57%) Selenium
9 2 (2.38%) GitLab
9 2 (2.38%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.19%) Eclipse
10 1 (1.19%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (1.19%) Moq
10 1 (1.19%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.29%) Banking
2 12 (14.29%) Finance
2 12 (14.29%) Games
3 10 (11.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (4.76%) Fire and Rescue
4 4 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.76%) Legal
5 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.57%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.38%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.38%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Back Office
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Senior
2 23 (27.38%) Developer
3 15 (17.86%) Analyst
4 12 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.71%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.52%) Lead
6 8 (9.52%) Senior Software Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Software Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Android Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Data Manager
7 7 (8.33%) iOS Android Developer
7 7 (8.33%) iOS Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Lead Android Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Lead Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Lead iOS Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Senior Manager
8 6 (7.14%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 6 (7.14%) Release Manager
9 5 (5.95%) QA Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (9.52%) React
2 7 (8.33%) Spring
2 7 (8.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 6 (7.14%) CSS
3 6 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (7.14%) HTML
4 5 (5.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 5 (5.95%) Kafka
4 5 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (5.95%) RESTful
5 4 (4.76%) pytest
5 4 (4.76%) REST
6 3 (3.57%) .NET
6 3 (3.57%) Middleware
6 3 (3.57%) Node.js
7 2 (2.38%) JSON
7 2 (2.38%) OAuth
7 2 (2.38%) Web Services
7 2 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Mobile Games
2 10 (11.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (10.71%) Algorithms
3 9 (10.71%) Fixed Income
4 7 (8.33%) Mobile App
5 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 6 (7.14%) Derivative
5 6 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.57%) Equities
6 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.38%) FPGA
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.19%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 7 (8.33%) Android
2 7 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.76%) CentOS
4 2 (2.38%) Rocky
4 2 (2.38%) Windows
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) Agile
2 30 (35.71%) DevOps
3 22 (26.19%) Computer Science
4 21 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 21 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 21 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 19 (22.62%) CI/CD
5 19 (22.62%) Design Patterns
5 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.62%) Validation
6 15 (17.86%) Project Management
7 13 (15.48%) Migration
8 12 (14.29%) B2B
8 12 (14.29%) Data Collection
8 12 (14.29%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
8 12 (14.29%) Integration Testing
8 12 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 12 (14.29%) Software Testing
8 12 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
8 12 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.19%) SQL
2 18 (21.43%) Java
2 18 (21.43%) Python
3 7 (8.33%) C++
3 7 (8.33%) Kotlin
3 7 (8.33%) Objective-C
3 7 (8.33%) Swift
4 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.95%) C#
6 4 (4.76%) Bash
7 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (34.52%) Degree
2 15 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (5.95%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.33%) Good Clinical Practice
3 5 (5.95%) PMO
4 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.38%) GMP
4 2 (2.38%) SLA
4 2 (2.38%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.19%) CDISC
5 1 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.95%) Argo
4 4 (4.76%) Ansible
4 4 (4.76%) Nagios
5 3 (3.57%) Grafana
6 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) New Relic
2 6 (7.14%) Google
3 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.38%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.38%) Splunk
6 2 (2.38%) VMware
7 1 (1.19%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.19%) FactSet
7 1 (1.19%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.19%) SAP