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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 62 44
Rank change year-on-year -14 -18 -21
Permanent jobs citing QA 63 134 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.09% 4.01% 6.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.72% 31.31% 41.63%
Number of salaries quoted 45 128 276
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,950 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,438 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £112,500 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 304 428 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 14.92% 12.80% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 198 351 648
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £102,875
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 17 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 7 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.76%) CMS
3 2 (3.17%) CoreMedia CMS
3 2 (3.17%) Liferay
3 2 (3.17%) nginx
3 2 (3.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Elite 3E
1 2 (3.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.59%) Carpe Diem
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) AWS
3 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (6.35%) GCP
4 3 (4.76%) SaaS
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) Serverless
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.59%) IaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Multicast
2 2 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) VLAN
3 1 (1.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) MySQL
2 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.17%) OLAP
3 2 (3.17%) OLTP
3 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.59%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.59%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.59%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.59%) Metadata
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Power BI
4 1 (1.59%) Redis
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Git
1 6 (9.52%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Selenium
3 2 (3.17%) GitLab
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.59%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.59%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) Moq
4 1 (1.59%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.59%) Postman
4 1 (1.59%) TestRail
4 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Banking
2 15 (23.81%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Legal
4 4 (6.35%) Investment Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Retail
5 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.76%) Marketing
6 2 (3.17%) Law
6 2 (3.17%) Local Government
6 2 (3.17%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.59%) Back Office
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Analyst
1 12 (19.05%) Developer
2 9 (14.29%) Senior
3 8 (12.70%) Business Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Release Manager
4 7 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.76%) C++ Developer
8 3 (4.76%) C++ Software Developer
8 3 (4.76%) C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior C++ Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Service Manager
8 3 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (11.11%) CSS
2 7 (11.11%) HTML
3 5 (7.94%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 4 (6.35%) Node.js
4 4 (6.35%) Playwright
4 4 (6.35%) pytest
4 4 (6.35%) React
4 4 (6.35%) REST
5 3 (4.76%) Middleware
5 3 (4.76%) OAuth
5 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.76%) Spring
6 2 (3.17%) .NET
6 2 (3.17%) Jest
6 2 (3.17%) JSON
6 2 (3.17%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (3.17%) Material-UI
6 2 (3.17%) Web Services
6 2 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (17.46%) Algorithms
2 11 (17.46%) Fixed Income
3 8 (12.70%) Data Structures
3 8 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (9.52%) Derivative
5 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
6 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
7 3 (4.76%) Equities
8 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
8 2 (3.17%) FPGA
8 2 (3.17%) Low-Code
8 2 (3.17%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.59%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) CentOS
3 2 (3.17%) Rocky
4 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.33%) DevOps
2 20 (31.75%) Agile
3 13 (20.63%) Software Engineering
4 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
5 10 (15.87%) Computer Science
5 10 (15.87%) Low Latency
5 10 (15.87%) Mentoring
6 9 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 9 (14.29%) Integration Testing
6 9 (14.29%) Observability
6 9 (14.29%) Regression Testing
7 8 (12.70%) CI/CD
7 8 (12.70%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (12.70%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (12.70%) Software Testing
8 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (11.11%) User Experience
9 6 (9.52%) Document Management
9 6 (9.52%) Project Management
9 6 (9.52%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) Python
2 12 (19.05%) SQL
3 8 (12.70%) Java
4 7 (11.11%) C++
4 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.52%) C#
6 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.35%) Bash
8 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.17%) CCSP
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.17%) CISM
4 2 (3.17%) CISSP
4 2 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) SLA
1 3 (4.76%) Software Quality Assurance
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) CDISC
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Ansible
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.35%) Nagios
3 3 (4.76%) Terraform
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
4 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) Rapid7
4 2 (3.17%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.17%) Splunk
4 2 (3.17%) VMware
5 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.59%) FactSet
5 1 (1.59%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Workday