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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Permanent jobs citing QA 9 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 6.29% - 4.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 45.00% - 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £19,000 - £32,120
25th Percentile £44,125 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.71%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £48,750
90th Percentile £72,675 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £67,500 £48,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +39.90% +1.58% +7.95%

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 20 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 13.99% 3.95% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 13
10th Percentile £19,000 - £35,250
25th Percentile £36,125 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £42,500 £61,835
90th Percentile £71,250 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +32.87%

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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 6 November 2025.

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 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Backend Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Jest
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS3
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5
2 1 (11.11%) JPA
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Redux
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) IoT
2 2 (22.22%) CCTV
2 2 (22.22%) EPoS
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
4 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 1 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (11.11%) Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
7 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Elixir
1 5 (55.56%) Go
1 5 (55.56%) Ruby
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Solace