QA Jobs in Chester

Quality Assurance (QA)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 31 32
Rank change year-on-year +23 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing QA 4 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 12.12% 0.92% 2.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 66.67% 10.00% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £14,800 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £19,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £26,000 £22,000
Median % change year-on-year +101.92% +18.18% -48.24%
75th Percentile £56,250 £33,000 £45,000
90th Percentile - £37,200 £47,250
Cheshire median annual salary £52,500 £43,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% -12.50%

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 6 20 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 18.18% 9.17% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 9
10th Percentile £51,500 £25,800 -
25th Percentile £55,625 £32,500 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £53,029
90th Percentile - £71,915 £60,750
Cheshire median annual salary £48,306 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +20.77% -15.79% +18.75%

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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

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

Salary trend for QA in Chester

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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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) JPA
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Redux
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Sass
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Solace
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft