QA Jobs in the City of London

Quality Assurance (QA)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 36 22
Rank change year-on-year -20 -14 +25
Permanent jobs citing QA 147 381 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.40% 7.71% 8.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 32.74% 44.98% 47.67%
Number of salaries quoted 139 349 540
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,136 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 449 847 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 13.44% 17.14% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 371 749 1,075
10th Percentile £39,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £104,000 £100,000
Central London median annual salary £68,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% - +7.69%

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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 18 April 2024.

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 5 (3.40%) CMS
1 5 (3.40%) Drupal
1 5 (3.40%) IIS
1 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Moodle
3 1 (0.68%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Trello
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.21%) SaaS
2 21 (14.29%) Azure
3 13 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.76%) Serverless
5 5 (3.40%) AWS
6 3 (2.04%) GCP
6 3 (2.04%) IaaS
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.36%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (1.36%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.36%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.36%) ClickUp
8 1 (0.68%) Azure App Service
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.12%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.76%) Power BI
4 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.72%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.04%) Looker
6 3 (2.04%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.04%) Tableau
7 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.36%) MySQL
7 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (45.58%) Cucumber
2 58 (39.46%) Postman
3 57 (38.78%) Jenkins
4 38 (25.85%) Selenium
5 30 (20.41%) Cypress.io
6 12 (8.16%) JIRA
7 11 (7.48%) Git
8 10 (6.80%) SpecFlow
9 8 (5.44%) Appium
9 8 (5.44%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.04%) JDeveloper
11 2 (1.36%) JBehave
11 2 (1.36%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.68%) Bugzilla
12 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.68%) JMeter
12 1 (0.68%) JUnit
12 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (13.61%) Finance
3 13 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.80%) Legal
5 8 (5.44%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.76%) Social Skills
7 6 (4.08%) Banking
7 6 (4.08%) Law
8 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.72%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.04%) Retail
9 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Back Office
11 1 (0.68%) Front Office
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (33.33%) Senior
2 36 (24.49%) Lead
3 21 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 14 (9.52%) Developer
5 9 (6.12%) Analyst
6 8 (5.44%) Consultant
6 8 (5.44%) Support Consultant
7 7 (4.76%) .NET Developer
7 7 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Angular Developer
8 6 (4.08%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (4.08%) C# Developer
8 6 (4.08%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 6 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (4.08%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 6 (4.08%) QA Leader
8 6 (4.08%) React Developer
9 5 (3.40%) Senior Support Consultant
9 5 (3.40%) Web Manager
9 5 (3.40%) Website Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (38.78%) REST
2 16 (10.88%) .NET
3 15 (10.20%) .NET Framework
4 14 (9.52%) CSS
4 14 (9.52%) HTML
4 14 (9.52%) WebdriverIO
5 13 (8.84%) React
6 9 (6.12%) Node.js
7 8 (5.44%) Gherkin
7 8 (5.44%) RESTful
8 7 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.76%) jQuery
8 7 (4.76%) Playwright
8 7 (4.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 6 (4.08%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.08%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.08%) pytest
9 6 (4.08%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (4.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.80%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.72%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.36%) Blog
4 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.68%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) Windows
1 5 (3.40%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.04%) Android
2 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.36%) Debian
3 2 (1.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (49.66%) API Testing
2 65 (44.22%) CI/CD
3 60 (40.82%) Clean Code
3 60 (40.82%) SDET
4 56 (38.10%) Test Strategy
5 48 (32.65%) BDD
6 29 (19.73%) Agile
7 26 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.24%) DevOps
9 16 (10.88%) Fintech
10 15 (10.20%) Test Automation
11 14 (9.52%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.52%) Manual Testing
12 13 (8.84%) Data Modelling
13 12 (8.16%) Mentoring
14 11 (7.48%) Line Management
15 10 (6.80%) TDD
16 8 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (5.44%) Project Delivery
17 7 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.29%) Java
2 43 (29.25%) JavaScript
3 32 (21.77%) SQL
4 23 (15.65%) C#
5 22 (14.97%) Python
6 6 (4.08%) Swift
7 3 (2.04%) Bash
7 3 (2.04%) Go
7 3 (2.04%) Perl
7 3 (2.04%) PHP
7 3 (2.04%) Ruby
7 3 (2.04%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.68%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (6.80%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.44%) Degree
4 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.04%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.04%) COBIT
3 3 (2.04%) GRC
3 3 (2.04%) NIST
4 2 (1.36%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.04%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.44%) Aderant
3 4 (2.72%) Oracle
4 2 (1.36%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.68%) Databricks
5 1 (0.68%) Google
5 1 (0.68%) IBM
5 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.68%) Pega
5 1 (0.68%) SAP
5 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.68%) Solace
5 1 (0.68%) Spotify
5 1 (0.68%) TIBCO