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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 41 23
Rank change year-on-year -18 -18 +19
Permanent jobs citing QA 137 316 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.06% 6.83% 8.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 31.28% 41.91% 46.80%
Number of salaries quoted 131 287 549
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,818 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £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 438 754 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 12.99% 16.29% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 359 666 1,087
10th Percentile £39,350 £44,125 £46,250
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 £87,500 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £101,250
Central London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +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 8 May 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 (3.65%) CMS
1 5 (3.65%) Drupal
1 5 (3.65%) IIS
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.46%) Moodle
4 1 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.46%) Trello
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.82%) SaaS
2 24 (17.52%) Azure
3 17 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.84%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.11%) Serverless
6 5 (3.65%) AWS
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.19%) IaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.46%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (1.46%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.46%) Azure App Service
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.46%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.46%) ClickUp
8 2 (1.46%) GCP
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.73%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.57%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.84%) Power BI
4 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.19%) Looker
6 3 (2.19%) MySQL
6 3 (2.19%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.19%) Tableau
7 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (40.15%) Cucumber
2 48 (35.04%) Jenkins
2 48 (35.04%) Postman
3 32 (23.36%) Selenium
4 23 (16.79%) Cypress.io
5 16 (11.68%) JIRA
6 13 (9.49%) Git
7 9 (6.57%) SpecFlow
8 8 (5.84%) TeamCity
9 5 (3.65%) Appium
10 3 (2.19%) JDeveloper
11 2 (1.46%) JBehave
11 2 (1.46%) JUnit
11 2 (1.46%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.73%) Charles Proxy
12 1 (0.73%) GitLab
12 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.73%) TestComplete
12 1 (0.73%) Tricentis qTest
12 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (14.60%) Finance
3 13 (9.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.30%) Legal
4 10 (7.30%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Banking
6 5 (3.65%) Law
7 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.92%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.19%) Retail
8 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Front Office
10 1 (0.73%) Games
10 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (30.66%) Senior
2 31 (22.63%) Lead
3 20 (14.60%) QA Engineer
4 17 (12.41%) Developer
5 10 (7.30%) .NET Developer
6 9 (6.57%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (6.57%) C# Developer
6 9 (6.57%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 9 (6.57%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (6.57%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 8 (5.84%) Analyst
7 8 (5.84%) Consultant
7 8 (5.84%) Support Consultant
8 7 (5.11%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.38%) Angular Developer
9 6 (4.38%) React Developer
10 5 (3.65%) QA Leader
10 5 (3.65%) Senior Support Consultant
10 5 (3.65%) Web Manager
10 5 (3.65%) Website Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (35.04%) REST
2 20 (14.60%) .NET
3 18 (13.14%) .NET Framework
4 17 (12.41%) CSS
4 17 (12.41%) HTML
5 15 (10.95%) React
6 12 (8.76%) Node.js
7 11 (8.03%) ASP.NET
7 11 (8.03%) WebdriverIO
8 10 (7.30%) jQuery
8 10 (7.30%) RESTful
8 10 (7.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 9 (6.57%) .NET Core
9 9 (6.57%) AngularJS
9 9 (6.57%) Entity Framework
9 9 (6.57%) GraphQL
9 9 (6.57%) Razor View Engine
10 8 (5.84%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.65%) Playwright
12 4 (2.92%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.92%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.46%) Derivative
5 2 (1.46%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.73%) Bitcoin
6 1 (0.73%) Blog
6 1 (0.73%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.38%) Windows
2 5 (3.65%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.19%) Linux
4 2 (1.46%) Android
4 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.46%) Debian
4 2 (1.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (43.07%) API Testing
2 54 (39.42%) CI/CD
3 47 (34.31%) Clean Code
3 47 (34.31%) SDET
4 46 (33.58%) Test Strategy
5 39 (28.47%) BDD
6 26 (18.98%) Agile
6 26 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (15.33%) DevOps
8 17 (12.41%) Data Modelling
9 16 (11.68%) Test Automation
10 14 (10.22%) TDD
11 13 (9.49%) Fintech
12 12 (8.76%) Manual Testing
13 11 (8.03%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.03%) Line Management
14 10 (7.30%) Full Stack Development
14 10 (7.30%) Mentoring
15 8 (5.84%) Analytics
15 8 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.47%) Java
2 38 (27.74%) JavaScript
3 35 (25.55%) SQL
4 24 (17.52%) C#
5 19 (13.87%) Python
6 3 (2.19%) Bash
6 3 (2.19%) Go
6 3 (2.19%) Perl
6 3 (2.19%) Ruby
6 3 (2.19%) Swift
6 3 (2.19%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.46%) PHP
8 1 (0.73%) C++
8 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.73%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (6.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.84%) Degree
2 8 (5.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.19%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.19%) COBIT
2 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.19%) GRC
2 3 (2.19%) NIST
3 2 (1.46%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.46%) PMO
4 1 (0.73%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.19%) Docker
3 1 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.84%) Aderant
3 4 (2.92%) Oracle
4 2 (1.46%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.73%) Databricks
5 1 (0.73%) IBM
5 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.73%) Pega
5 1 (0.73%) SAP
5 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.73%) Solace
5 1 (0.73%) Splunk
5 1 (0.73%) TIBCO