QA Jobs in the City of London

Quality Assurance (QA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 65 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 -20 -24
Permanent jobs citing QA 61 129 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.12% 3.86% 6.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.74% 31.16% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 42 124 255
10th Percentile £51,625 £42,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,438 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £108,125 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £112,500 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 309 414 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 15.80% 12.37% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 203 336 614
10th Percentile £41,350 £41,250 £43,339
25th Percentile £46,000 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £114,750 £105,000 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the City of London.

Salary trend for QA in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 8 (13.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.92%) CMS
3 2 (3.28%) CoreMedia CMS
3 2 (3.28%) Liferay
3 2 (3.28%) nginx
3 2 (3.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Elite 3E
1 2 (3.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.64%) Carpe Diem
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (6.56%) GCP
4 3 (4.92%) SaaS
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.28%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Serverless
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.64%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Multicast
2 2 (3.28%) DNS
2 2 (3.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) MySQL
2 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.28%) OLAP
3 2 (3.28%) OLTP
3 2 (3.28%) Power BI
3 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.64%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.64%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.64%) Metadata
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) JIRA
2 6 (9.84%) Git
3 3 (4.92%) Selenium
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.64%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.64%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.64%) Maven
5 1 (1.64%) Moq
5 1 (1.64%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.64%) TestRail
5 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.59%) Finance
3 13 (21.31%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Legal
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Retail
6 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Law
7 2 (3.28%) Local Government
7 2 (3.28%) Multimedia
7 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.64%) Back Office
8 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Developer
2 11 (18.03%) Analyst
3 9 (14.75%) Release Manager
3 9 (14.75%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) Business Analyst
5 7 (11.48%) Senior Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.92%) C++ Developer
9 3 (4.92%) C++ Software Developer
9 3 (4.92%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior C++ Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Service Manager
9 3 (4.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) CSS
1 7 (11.48%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (11.48%) HTML
2 4 (6.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 4 (6.56%) Node.js
2 4 (6.56%) React
2 4 (6.56%) REST
3 3 (4.92%) .NET
3 3 (4.92%) Middleware
3 3 (4.92%) OAuth
3 3 (4.92%) OAuth2
3 3 (4.92%) Playwright
3 3 (4.92%) pytest
3 3 (4.92%) Spring
4 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.28%) Jest
4 2 (3.28%) JSON
4 2 (3.28%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (3.28%) Material-UI
4 2 (3.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Algorithms
1 12 (19.67%) Fixed Income
1 12 (19.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (14.75%) Data Structures
2 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.20%) Derivative
3 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) Equities
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.64%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.64%) FMCG
6 1 (1.64%) FPGA
6 1 (1.64%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) CentOS
3 2 (3.28%) Rocky
4 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (34.43%) DevOps
2 20 (32.79%) Agile
3 13 (21.31%) Software Engineering
4 10 (16.39%) Computer Science
4 10 (16.39%) Integration Testing
4 10 (16.39%) Observability
4 10 (16.39%) Regression Testing
5 9 (14.75%) Design Patterns
5 9 (14.75%) Low Latency
5 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
5 9 (14.75%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (13.11%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
6 8 (13.11%) User Experience
7 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.84%) Data Security
8 6 (9.84%) Document Management
8 6 (9.84%) Systems Analysis
8 6 (9.84%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) Python
2 12 (19.67%) SQL
3 9 (14.75%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) C#
4 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.84%) C++
6 5 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.28%) CCSP
4 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.28%) CISM
4 2 (3.28%) CISSP
4 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) ISEB
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
1 3 (4.92%) Software Quality Assurance
2 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.28%) GDPR
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) NIST
2 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) CDISC
3 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Ansible
2 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Nagios
3 3 (4.92%) Terraform
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) Rapid7
4 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
4 2 (3.28%) VMware
5 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.64%) FactSet
5 1 (1.64%) Okta
5 1 (1.64%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) Workday
5 1 (1.64%) Zscaler