QA Jobs in the East Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 46 18
Rank change year-on-year -15 -28 +13
Permanent jobs citing QA 112 217 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.12% 4.34% 10.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.40% 34.66% 54.16%
Number of salaries quoted 40 137 95
10th Percentile £34,850 £32,000 £16,900
25th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £57,813 £58,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £74,125 £65,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 441 626 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.23% 12.51% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 188 397 191
10th Percentile £24,169 £24,240 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £29,750 £35,109
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,960 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,375 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,875 £63,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Northamptonshire -3 51 £29,621 -46.14% 72
Leicestershire +17 33 £55,000 +37.50% 78
Nottinghamshire +12 10 £50,944 -15.09% 79
Lincolnshire -3 9 £75,000 +87.50% 70
Derbyshire -18 9 £45,000 -5.26% 126
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 35 (31.25%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (40.18%) Azure
2 43 (38.39%) AWS
3 34 (30.36%) GCP
4 16 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 12 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (10.71%) Power Automate
5 12 (10.71%) PowerApps
6 5 (4.46%) SaaS
7 1 (0.89%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.89%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 13 (11.61%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.89%) LTE
3 1 (0.89%) VLAN
3 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (46.43%) Cucumber
2 43 (38.39%) Selenium
3 42 (37.50%) JIRA
4 39 (34.82%) Bitbucket
4 39 (34.82%) GitLab
4 39 (34.82%) Maven
4 39 (34.82%) SonarQube
4 39 (34.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (11.61%) Robot Framework
6 6 (5.36%) Postman
7 3 (2.68%) Git
8 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.79%) JMeter
8 2 (1.79%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.89%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.89%) Subversion
9 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 69 (61.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 44 (39.29%) Finance
3 39 (34.82%) Banking
4 26 (23.21%) Social Skills
5 17 (15.18%) Manufacturing
6 15 (13.39%) Telecoms
7 10 (8.93%) Retail
8 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (4.46%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.79%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.89%) Automotive
11 1 (0.89%) Billing
11 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.89%) Electronics
11 1 (0.89%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.89%) Law
11 1 (0.89%) Legal
11 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 19 (16.96%) Senior
3 15 (13.39%) Developer
4 14 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) Test Automation Engineer
6 12 (10.71%) Analyst
6 12 (10.71%) Power Platform Developer
7 8 (7.14%) CRM Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 6 (5.36%) QA Analyst
8 6 (5.36%) Quality Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Lead
9 5 (4.46%) QA Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) ICT Analyst
10 3 (2.68%) Risk Analyst
10 3 (2.68%) Tester
11 2 (1.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 2 (1.79%) Senior Developer
11 2 (1.79%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (36.61%) React
2 40 (35.71%) Redux
2 40 (35.71%) Spring
2 40 (35.71%) Spring Boot
3 39 (34.82%) CSS
3 39 (34.82%) HTML
3 39 (34.82%) JPA
3 39 (34.82%) Kafka
4 34 (30.36%) Hibernate
5 14 (12.50%) .NET
6 6 (5.36%) REST
7 5 (4.46%) CSS3
7 5 (4.46%) HTML5
7 5 (4.46%) Jest
7 5 (4.46%) RESTful
7 5 (4.46%) Sass
8 4 (3.57%) Swagger
9 2 (1.79%) Playwright
10 1 (0.89%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 39 (34.82%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (11.61%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.89%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.89%) IoT
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.89%) NHS
5 1 (0.89%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.50%) Windows
2 13 (11.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.89%) Test Automation
2 54 (48.21%) DevOps
3 49 (43.75%) Agile
4 43 (38.39%) SDLC
5 42 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 41 (36.61%) CI/CD
7 40 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (35.71%) Microservices
8 39 (34.82%) Containerisation
8 39 (34.82%) Front End Development
8 39 (34.82%) Performance Optimisation
9 37 (33.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (33.04%) Mentoring
10 35 (31.25%) Clean Code
10 35 (31.25%) TDD
11 23 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (15.18%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (14.29%) Test Management
14 15 (13.39%) Coaching
14 15 (13.39%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (48.21%) JavaScript
2 46 (41.07%) SQL
3 40 (35.71%) Java
4 16 (14.29%) C#
5 14 (12.50%) Python
6 13 (11.61%) Bash
6 13 (11.61%) PowerShell
7 7 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (2.68%) ISTQB
2 3 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.79%) PMP
3 2 (1.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.89%) CCNP
4 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.89%) ISEB
4 1 (0.89%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.89%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.89%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (34.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) Solace
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.79%) SAP