QA Jobs in Devon

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 63 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 -17 +10
Permanent jobs citing QA 7 14 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 1.54% 1.65% 4.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.45% 14.43% 29.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 15
10th Percentile £46,750 £23,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £53,521 £26,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £26,500 £36,277
Median % change year-on-year +132.62% -26.95% -15.64%
75th Percentile £69,511 £40,000 £46,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £48,019 £50,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 67 97 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 14.76% 11.43% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 21 54 70
10th Percentile - £26,250 -
25th Percentile £29,750 £26,313 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £29,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +51.26% -33.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,337 £47,188
90th Percentile £68,750 - £55,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,396 £51,959
% change year-on-year +14.51% +0.84% +3.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Devon

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Salary Trend in Devon

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

Salary trend for QA in Devon

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Salary Histogram in Devon

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

Salary histogram for QA in Devon

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Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Devon region over the 6 months to 6 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
Plymouth +19 3 £61,644 +95.70% 6
Exeter +12 1 £40,000 -11.11% 7
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) HSRP
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
3 1 (14.29%) Locust
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
3 1 (14.29%) TestRail
3 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
3 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) QA Automation
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Network Design
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification