QA Job Trends in Cornwall

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Cornwall

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cornwall requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing QA 4 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Cornwall 2.29% 0.95% 3.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% 33.33% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £34,971 - £20,475
25th Percentile £38,732 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £26,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £27,800
South West median annual salary £45,000 £56,765 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +26.14% -5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cornwall

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 Cornwall.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 20 3 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cornwall 11.43% 2.86% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 18
10th Percentile £37,689 - £23,993
25th Percentile £45,000 £66,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £67,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +125.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £50,000 £68,750 £37,000
90th Percentile £110,000 - £38,143
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,396
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.97% -4.74%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cornwall

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cornwall.

QA job vacancy trend in Cornwall

QA
Salary Trend in Cornwall

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cornwall citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cornwall citing QA

QA
Salary Histogram in Cornwall

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Cornwall over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Cornwall

QA
Job Locations in Cornwall

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Cornwall region over the 6 months to 4 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bodmin - 2 £45,000 -
Truro - 1 £32,464 -
QA
South West

QA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cornwall by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) QA Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Quality Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) PDM
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Python