QA Manager Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Manager
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Manager salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 575 848
Rank change year-on-year -50 +273 +174
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Manager 49 282 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.100% 0.31% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.33% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 18 168 40
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £40,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -25.49% -1.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £70,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £46,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% -28.85% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,614 86,442 76,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 94.73% 91.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,551 63,791 50,241
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

QA Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured QA Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Manager in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +33 25 £76,250 +90.63% 6
North West +31 25 £76,250 +154.17% 4
London +54 12 £45,000 -35.71% 8
South West +102 8 £72,500 +38.10% 1
East of England +28 2 - -
South East +30 1 £60,000 +9.09% 4
QA Manager
UK

QA Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 June 2025, QA Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring QA Manager in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) QA
2 27 (55.10%) Manufacturing
2 27 (55.10%) Degree
2 27 (55.10%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (55.10%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (42.86%) Analytical Thinking
3 21 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
3 21 (42.86%) Logistics
3 21 (42.86%) IBM Domino
4 18 (36.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (32.65%) GMP
6 13 (26.53%) Finance
7 10 (20.41%) Retail
7 10 (20.41%) Internal Audit
7 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
7 10 (20.41%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (12.24%) Biochemistry
8 6 (12.24%) Google
8 6 (12.24%) Process Improvement
8 6 (12.24%) Test Strategy
8 6 (12.24%) Chemistry
8 6 (12.24%) CAPA
8 6 (12.24%) Change Management
8 6 (12.24%) GLP
8 6 (12.24%) SAP
8 6 (12.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (10.20%) Agile
9 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
9 5 (10.20%) Data Management

QA Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (42.86%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.08%) Azure
1 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (4.08%) PaaS
2 1 (2.04%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
1 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 27 (55.10%) Analytical Skills
1 27 (55.10%) Manufacturing
2 13 (26.53%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Retail
3 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (12.24%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (10.20%) Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) Playwright
2 1 (2.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.04%) Derivative
1 1 (2.04%) Equities
1 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (2.04%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (42.86%) Analytical Thinking
2 21 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
2 21 (42.86%) Logistics
3 18 (36.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (20.41%) Internal Audit
4 10 (20.41%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (12.24%) Biochemistry
5 6 (12.24%) CAPA
5 6 (12.24%) Change Management
5 6 (12.24%) Chemistry
5 6 (12.24%) Process Improvement
5 6 (12.24%) Test Strategy
6 5 (10.20%) Agile
6 5 (10.20%) Data Management
6 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.16%) Coaching
7 4 (8.16%) Data Governance
7 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
8 3 (6.12%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.08%) Python
2 1 (2.04%) C#
2 1 (2.04%) C++
2 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (55.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (32.65%) GMP
3 6 (12.24%) GLP
4 4 (8.16%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Google
1 6 (12.24%) SAP
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint