QA Job Trends in Chester

Quality Assurance (QA)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 26
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -4
Permanent jobs citing QA 15 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 10.49% 1.56% 2.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 57.69% 12.50% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 3
10th Percentile £28,400 - £14,140
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £17,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £22,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +131.28% -35.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £31,350
90th Percentile £71,250 - £36,540
Cheshire median annual salary £67,500 £48,750 £30,250
% change year-on-year +38.46% +61.16% -31.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 26 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 18.18% 12.50% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 18 4 10
10th Percentile £35,450 £40,875 £21,630
25th Percentile £43,375 £45,938 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +67.86% -11.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £40,000
90th Percentile £71,250 - £63,250
Cheshire median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% +14.29% -6.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

QA job vacancy trend in Chester

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Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Chester over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Chester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Backend Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) QA Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Security Support Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Support
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Backend Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Jest
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) Spring
1 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) CCTV
1 5 (33.33%) IoT
2 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) EPoS
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Android
1 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Elixir
1 5 (33.33%) Go
1 5 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (6.67%) Java
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Siemens
2 1 (6.67%) Google