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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 38 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +14
Permanent jobs citing QA 196 166 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.32% 6.71% 8.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 31.72% 51.55% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 95 86 151
10th Percentile £31,250 £13,500 £27,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,500 - £66,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

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 618 322 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.63% 13.01% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 308 191 406
10th Percentile £24,942 £25,000 £27,688
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £56,128
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +8 54 £65,750 +14.35% 5
Leicestershire -31 46 £53,750 -2.27% 10
Derbyshire +20 37 £45,000 -25.00% 9
Lincolnshire +5 30 £40,000 -16.67% 13
Nottinghamshire -35 24 £57,500 +15.00% 12
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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 6 (3.06%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.39%) Azure
2 23 (11.73%) AWS
3 18 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.10%) GCP
5 9 (4.59%) SaaS
6 2 (1.02%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (1.02%) PaaS
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.51%) FinancialForce
7 1 (0.51%) GitHub
7 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.14%) Firewall
2 5 (2.55%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (2.55%) DHCP
2 5 (2.55%) DNS
2 5 (2.55%) NetScaler
3 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.02%) Broadband
4 2 (1.02%) LAN
4 2 (1.02%) WAN
4 2 (1.02%) Wireless
5 1 (0.51%) Modbus
5 1 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.08%) BigQuery
3 8 (4.08%) Looker
4 2 (1.02%) MySQL
5 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.51%) Lumira
5 1 (0.51%) Power BI
5 1 (0.51%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.14%) Git
2 6 (3.06%) Jasmine
2 6 (3.06%) Karma Test Runner
3 3 (1.53%) JIRA
3 3 (1.53%) Selenium
4 2 (1.02%) gulp
4 2 (1.02%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.02%) TestRail
5 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.51%) JMeter
5 1 (0.51%) Postman
5 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.51%) TestComplete
General
1 62 (31.63%) Legal
2 61 (31.12%) Retail
3 20 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.12%) Manufacturing
5 10 (5.10%) Aerospace
6 9 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.08%) Billing
7 8 (4.08%) Finance
8 6 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.04%) Banking
10 3 (1.53%) Law
10 3 (1.53%) Marketing
10 3 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.02%) Games
11 2 (1.02%) iGaming
11 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Automotive
12 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (31.12%) Analyst
2 59 (30.10%) Business Analyst
3 40 (20.41%) Lead
4 33 (16.84%) Team Leader
5 30 (15.31%) Lead Business Analyst
6 29 (14.80%) QA Manager
7 28 (14.29%) Business Analyst Team Leader
8 25 (12.76%) Developer
9 15 (7.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (7.14%) Quality Manager
11 12 (6.12%) C# Developer
12 11 (5.61%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (4.59%) Data Manager
15 8 (4.08%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (4.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (4.08%) Engineering Manager
16 7 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.65%) .NET
2 11 (5.61%) React
3 9 (4.59%) AngularJS
4 8 (4.08%) Sass
4 8 (4.08%) SOAP
5 7 (3.57%) REST
6 6 (3.06%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.06%) ASP.NET
6 6 (3.06%) JSON
6 6 (3.06%) RxJS
6 6 (3.06%) Web Services
6 6 (3.06%) XML
6 6 (3.06%) XML Schema
7 5 (2.55%) Blazor
7 5 (2.55%) Next.js
8 4 (2.04%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.04%) NestJS
8 4 (2.04%) Node.js
9 3 (1.53%) Jest
9 3 (1.53%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.04%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.04%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.02%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.02%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.02%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.02%) FMCG
5 2 (1.02%) IoT
5 2 (1.02%) Online Games
5 2 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.51%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.73%) Linux
2 7 (3.57%) Windows
3 5 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.65%) ITIL
2 63 (32.14%) SDLC
2 63 (32.14%) Software Testing
3 61 (31.12%) Logistics
4 60 (30.61%) Coaching
4 60 (30.61%) Telematics
5 59 (30.10%) Business Analysis
5 59 (30.10%) Business Process Analysis
5 59 (30.10%) Business Process Improvement
5 59 (30.10%) Disaster Recovery
5 59 (30.10%) Feasibility Study
5 59 (30.10%) GAP Analysis
5 59 (30.10%) Impact Assessments
5 59 (30.10%) Process Improvement
5 59 (30.10%) Requirements Analysis
5 59 (30.10%) Resource Allocation
5 59 (30.10%) Stakeholder Analysis
6 36 (18.37%) Agile
7 32 (16.33%) DevOps
8 24 (12.24%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.16%) JavaScript
2 15 (7.65%) C#
3 11 (5.61%) SQL
3 11 (5.61%) TypeScript
4 7 (3.57%) VB
5 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.06%) VB.NET
5 6 (3.06%) VB6
6 3 (1.53%) C
6 3 (1.53%) C++
6 3 (1.53%) Embedded C
6 3 (1.53%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.02%) PHP
8 1 (0.51%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 75 (38.27%) Degree
2 5 (2.55%) CCNA
2 5 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
2 5 (2.55%) RHCSA
2 5 (2.55%) SC Cleared
2 5 (2.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.51%) ISEB
4 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.53%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) GDPR
2 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.51%) TickIT
System Software
1 14 (7.14%) Docker
2 5 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.55%) vSphere
2 5 (2.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.10%) Ansible
2 10 (5.10%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (2.55%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (2.04%) Terraform
5 1 (0.51%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.10%) Google
3 5 (2.55%) Cisco
3 5 (2.55%) Citrix
3 5 (2.55%) Dell
3 5 (2.55%) EMC
3 5 (2.55%) Red Hat
3 5 (2.55%) VMware
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe
4 1 (0.51%) AVEVA
4 1 (0.51%) Minitab
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle
4 1 (0.51%) Pardot
4 1 (0.51%) Rockwell
4 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.51%) SAP
4 1 (0.51%) Siemens