QA Jobs in Derbyshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 25 10
Rank change year-on-year -15 -15 +16
Permanent jobs citing QA 11 46 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 3.59% 5.74% 14.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.45% 36.51% 45.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5 46 21
10th Percentile £39,800 £36,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -15.29%
75th Percentile £47,500 £53,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £54,250 £58,750 -
East Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -1.04% +4.92%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 49 126 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 16.01% 15.73% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26 97 63
10th Percentile - £23,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £21,250 £29,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £50,125 £53,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £59,375 £59,250 £83,250
East Midlands median annual salary £42,000 £41,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% -13.68% +5.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Derbyshire

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Salary Trend in Derbyshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Derbyshire.

Salary trend for QA in Derbyshire

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Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Derbyshire

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Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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
Glossop - 3 - -
High Peak - 3 - -
Derby -5 2 £51,250 +7.89% 7
Chesterfield 0 1 £38,000 -6.17% 2
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East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Selenium
2 6 (54.55%) Bitbucket
2 6 (54.55%) Cucumber
2 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 6 (54.55%) Maven
2 6 (54.55%) SonarQube
2 6 (54.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Postman
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (36.36%) Corporate Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Retail
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Insight Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Insight Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) CSS
1 6 (54.55%) HTML
1 6 (54.55%) JPA
1 6 (54.55%) Kafka
1 6 (54.55%) React
1 6 (54.55%) Redux
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 4 (36.36%) CSS3
2 4 (36.36%) HTML5
2 4 (36.36%) Jest
2 4 (36.36%) REST
2 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 4 (36.36%) Sass
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
3 2 (18.18%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (54.55%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Front End Development
2 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (54.55%) Microservices
2 6 (54.55%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (54.55%) SDLC
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Responsive Web Design
3 4 (36.36%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (36.36%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Solace
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft