QA Job Trends in Coventry

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 34 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing QA 5 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 2.38% 2.87% 0.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 17.65% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,200 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,512 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -43.32% +46.34%
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,825 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 15 34 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 7.14% 16.27% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 32
10th Percentile £42,250 £42,200 £26,275
25th Percentile £49,375 £46,250 £36,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £66,250 £56,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £67,750 £62,250 £84,625
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

QA job vacancy trend in Coventry

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Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) JPA
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Redux
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Budget Management
3 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (60.00%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Solace