QA Jobs in the East of England

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 81 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -70 +33
Permanent jobs citing QA 137 170 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.18% 2.69% 13.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.34% 25.91% 60.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58 97 44
10th Percentile - £26,700 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £59,813 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £66,500 £75,000 £87,125
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 377 656 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.49% 10.37% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 181 458 255
10th Percentile £28,750 £24,790 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -23.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,000
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for QA in the East of England

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bedfordshire +24 53 - - 144
Hertfordshire +36 30 £35,000 -36.36% 266
Cambridgeshire +12 27 £53,000 +17.78% 167
Norfolk -1 12 £65,000 +62.50% 75
Suffolk -34 8 £59,000 +110.71% 78
Essex -8 7 £53,000 +41.33% 206
East Anglia - 2 £73,000 - 822
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 13 (9.49%) Confluence
2 8 (5.84%) WordPress
3 2 (1.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.73%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.25%) AWS
2 24 (17.52%) Azure
3 13 (9.49%) GCP
4 4 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.19%) Serverless
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.73%) Asana
6 1 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.73%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (0.73%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.73%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.73%) Figma
6 1 (0.73%) GitHub
6 1 (0.73%) SaaS
6 1 (0.73%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.95%) TCP/IP
1 15 (10.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.73%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.73%) MySQL
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (21.90%) Cucumber
2 29 (21.17%) JIRA
3 25 (18.25%) Selenium
4 15 (10.95%) Bitbucket
4 15 (10.95%) GitLab
4 15 (10.95%) Maven
4 15 (10.95%) Robot Framework
4 15 (10.95%) SonarQube
4 15 (10.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (3.65%) Git
6 4 (2.92%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.73%) JMeter
7 1 (0.73%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.73%) Moq
7 1 (0.73%) Postman
7 1 (0.73%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (46.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 53 (38.69%) Social Skills
3 34 (24.82%) Manufacturing
4 24 (17.52%) Banking
5 22 (16.06%) Finance
6 17 (12.41%) Law
6 17 (12.41%) Telecoms
7 16 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (10.22%) Legal
9 9 (6.57%) Aerospace
9 9 (6.57%) Aviation
10 7 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.19%) Electronics
12 3 (2.19%) Marketing
12 3 (2.19%) Retail
13 2 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.73%) Military
14 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (37.23%) Senior
2 18 (13.14%) Software Engineer
3 15 (10.95%) Test Automation Engineer
3 15 (10.95%) Test Engineer
4 13 (9.49%) Coordinator
4 13 (9.49%) Developer
4 13 (9.49%) QA Engineer
5 10 (7.30%) ERP Support
5 10 (7.30%) Lead
5 10 (7.30%) Web Developer
6 9 (6.57%) Senior QA Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.41%) React
2 16 (11.68%) CSS
2 16 (11.68%) HTML
2 16 (11.68%) Redux
3 15 (10.95%) JPA
3 15 (10.95%) Kafka
3 15 (10.95%) Spring
3 15 (10.95%) Spring Boot
4 13 (9.49%) Hibernate
5 5 (3.65%) .NET
5 5 (3.65%) REST
5 5 (3.65%) RESTful
6 4 (2.92%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.92%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.19%) Jest
7 3 (2.19%) Sass
7 3 (2.19%) Web Services
8 2 (1.46%) CSS3
8 2 (1.46%) Playwright
8 2 (1.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Product Ownership
2 17 (12.41%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (10.95%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.57%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.19%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.46%) Life Science
6 2 (1.46%) Robotics
7 1 (0.73%) BBC
7 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.41%) Windows
2 16 (11.68%) Linux
3 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.53%) Mentoring
2 45 (32.85%) Agile
2 45 (32.85%) DevOps
3 42 (30.66%) Test Automation
4 41 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (21.17%) CAD
5 29 (21.17%) Design for Manufacturing
6 28 (20.44%) CI/CD
7 26 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (18.25%) Project Management
9 22 (16.06%) Software Engineering
10 20 (14.60%) SDLC
11 19 (13.87%) Coaching
11 19 (13.87%) Microservices
11 19 (13.87%) Process Improvement
11 19 (13.87%) System Testing
12 18 (13.14%) Front End Development
12 18 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (13.14%) Test Management
13 17 (12.41%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (24.82%) JavaScript
2 30 (21.90%) SQL
3 21 (15.33%) Python
4 17 (12.41%) Bash
5 16 (11.68%) PowerShell
6 15 (10.95%) Java
7 8 (5.84%) PHP
8 5 (3.65%) C#
8 5 (3.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.73%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (51.82%) Degree
2 9 (6.57%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.19%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.73%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.19%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.19%) GMP
1 3 (2.19%) GxP
2 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.46%) IEC 62304
2 2 (1.46%) ISO 13485
2 2 (1.46%) PMO
3 1 (0.73%) CDISC
3 1 (0.73%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.73%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (13.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (11.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (10.95%) Solace
2 5 (3.65%) VMware
3 4 (2.92%) Autodesk
3 4 (2.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.46%) Google
5 1 (0.73%) ANSYS
5 1 (0.73%) Facebook
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle
5 1 (0.73%) Sage
5 1 (0.73%) SAP