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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Permanent jobs citing QA 8 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 6.84% - 5.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 53.33% - 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £35,100
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £65,000 £42,500 £22,700
% change year-on-year +52.94% +87.22% -43.25%

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 15 8 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 12.82% 4.21% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 15
10th Percentile £38,250 £37,895 £22,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £55,362 £27,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,490 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.70% +44.19% +35.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,915 £61,835
90th Percentile £71,250 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £52,500 £40,000 £49,502
% change year-on-year +31.25% -19.20% +41.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for QA 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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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
1 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Backend Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) JPA
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) Redux
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) CSS3
2 2 (25.00%) HTML5
2 2 (25.00%) Jest
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) IoT
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
4 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
5 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (37.50%) SDLC
5 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Elixir
1 5 (62.50%) Go
1 5 (62.50%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Solace