QA Jobs in England

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 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 61 51 48
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +13
Permanent jobs citing QA 2,814 3,903 9,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.59% 5.49% 6.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.80% 35.82% 38.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,596 2,046 4,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK 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
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10,499 10,896 25,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.40% 15.33% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,647 7,032 12,574
10th Percentile £27,400 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in England

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Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in England

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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 within the England 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
London -35 760 £65,000 -3.70% 142
North of England -18 506 £45,000 -18.18% 149
South East -12 499 £48,859 -11.17% 118
Midlands -5 461 £52,500 -4.55% 105
East of England +8 282 £42,500 +6.25% 47
South West 0 281 £44,000 -9.74% 90
North West -28 280 £45,000 -7.69% 86
West Midlands -15 265 £56,250 +2.27% 55
East Midlands -8 196 £45,000 -10.00% 49
Yorkshire -15 165 £45,000 -18.18% 41
North East -15 61 £41,774 -30.38% 28
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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 42 (1.49%) IIS
2 35 (1.24%) Confluence
2 35 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.92%) CMS
4 20 (0.71%) Apache
5 13 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.46%) Drupal
6 12 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.43%) Documentum
7 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.25%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.21%) nginx
10 4 (0.14%) TWiki
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.11%) WordPress
12 2 (0.071%) Moodle
12 2 (0.071%) SAS
Applications
1 115 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.21%) InfoPath
7 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.11%) Simulink
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.071%) Notion
9 2 (0.071%) OrCAD
9 2 (0.071%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.036%) Blender
10 1 (0.036%) UXPin
10 1 (0.036%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 33 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.43%) TrackWise
4 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.18%) Magento
5 5 (0.18%) Shopify
6 4 (0.14%) Lawson
6 4 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.14%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Primavera
7 3 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.071%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.071%) Findur
8 2 (0.071%) Odoo
8 2 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.071%) SAP MII
9 1 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.036%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 512 (18.19%) Azure
2 314 (11.16%) AWS
3 231 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (5.72%) GCP
5 147 (5.22%) SaaS
6 82 (2.91%) Power Platform
7 58 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 46 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (1.46%) Serverless
10 29 (1.03%) GitHub
11 27 (0.96%) Power Automate
12 25 (0.89%) Amazon S3
13 23 (0.82%) PowerApps
14 22 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (0.57%) PaaS
16 13 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (0.43%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
17 12 (0.43%) BrowserStack
18 11 (0.39%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (0.85%) Firewall
2 22 (0.78%) 3GPP
3 20 (0.71%) Internet
4 13 (0.46%) HTTP
5 11 (0.39%) DNS
6 9 (0.32%) VLAN
7 8 (0.28%) DHCP
7 8 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.28%) WAN
8 7 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (0.25%) RFID
9 6 (0.21%) 5G
9 6 (0.21%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.21%) Wireless
10 5 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (0.18%) NetScaler
10 5 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (0.18%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.18%) SSH
10 5 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 93 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (2.42%) BigQuery
3 68 (2.42%) Looker
4 52 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 44 (1.56%) Power BI
6 41 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (1.21%) MySQL
8 19 (0.68%) Tableau
9 18 (0.64%) Big Data
10 16 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (0.46%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.43%) Apache Hive
13 12 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
14 10 (0.36%) Data Mining
14 10 (0.36%) Presto
15 9 (0.32%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.32%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 166 (5.90%) JIRA
2 157 (5.58%) Selenium
3 152 (5.40%) Git
4 75 (2.67%) Postman
5 65 (2.31%) Cypress.io
6 62 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 58 (2.06%) Jenkins
8 37 (1.31%) SpecFlow
9 35 (1.24%) Visual Studio
10 32 (1.14%) Appium
11 27 (0.96%) Jasmine
11 27 (0.96%) JMeter
11 27 (0.96%) Karma Test Runner
11 27 (0.96%) TeamCity
11 27 (0.96%) WebDriver
12 23 (0.82%) JUnit
13 19 (0.68%) TestRail
14 17 (0.60%) GitLab
15 16 (0.57%) SoapUI
16 14 (0.50%) IntelliJ
General
1 948 (33.69%) Social Skills
2 435 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
3 402 (14.29%) Finance
4 378 (13.43%) Manufacturing
5 233 (8.28%) Legal
6 227 (8.07%) Pharmaceutical
7 208 (7.39%) Retail
8 157 (5.58%) Marketing
9 95 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 84 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 83 (2.95%) Telecoms
12 77 (2.74%) Aerospace
12 77 (2.74%) Law
13 67 (2.38%) Public Sector
14 65 (2.31%) Billing
15 64 (2.27%) Electronics
16 47 (1.67%) Banking
17 41 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
18 39 (1.39%) Front Office
18 39 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 358 (12.72%) Senior
2 334 (11.87%) Developer
3 280 (9.95%) Lead
4 250 (8.88%) Analyst
5 240 (8.53%) QA Manager
6 231 (8.21%) Project Manager
7 162 (5.76%) QA Engineer
8 143 (5.08%) Quality Manager
9 124 (4.41%) Software Engineer
10 107 (3.80%) Business Analyst
11 101 (3.59%) QA Specialist
12 90 (3.20%) Engineering Manager
13 82 (2.91%) .NET Developer
13 82 (2.91%) Quality Engineer
14 80 (2.84%) QA Officer
15 78 (2.77%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 71 (2.52%) C# Developer
16 71 (2.52%) Tester
17 69 (2.45%) Data Manager
18 67 (2.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (10.13%) .NET
2 163 (5.79%) React
3 136 (4.83%) AngularJS
4 129 (4.58%) HTML
5 123 (4.37%) CSS
6 107 (3.80%) REST
7 101 (3.59%) .NET Core
8 89 (3.16%) JSON
9 87 (3.09%) XML
10 79 (2.81%) ASP.NET
11 76 (2.70%) .NET Framework
12 74 (2.63%) Web Services
13 62 (2.20%) RESTful
14 56 (1.99%) jQuery
15 53 (1.88%) SOAP
16 51 (1.81%) Node.js
17 50 (1.78%) Vue
18 46 (1.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 44 (1.56%) GraphQL
20 41 (1.46%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 185 (6.57%) Product Ownership
2 140 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 95 (3.38%) Life Science
4 70 (2.49%) Driving Licence
5 59 (2.10%) Mobile App
6 56 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 45 (1.60%) Derivative
8 43 (1.53%) Hedge funds
9 37 (1.31%) IoT
10 31 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.07%) Equities
11 30 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 28 (1.00%) Fixed Income
13 27 (0.96%) Onboarding
14 25 (0.89%) Client/Server
15 24 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
16 23 (0.82%) Algorithms
16 23 (0.82%) Biopharmaceutical
16 23 (0.82%) Blog
17 22 (0.78%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 102 (3.62%) Windows
2 83 (2.95%) Linux
3 46 (1.63%) Android
4 36 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (0.36%) Unix
7 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.32%) Windows NT
8 9 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.18%) AIX
11 4 (0.14%) VMS
11 4 (0.14%) Windows Vista
12 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.036%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (27.47%) Agile
2 583 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
3 488 (17.34%) Project Management
4 438 (15.57%) DevOps
5 409 (14.53%) Test Automation
6 350 (12.44%) Mentoring
7 342 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 329 (11.69%) Coaching
9 311 (11.05%) CI/CD
10 308 (10.95%) Scrum
11 255 (9.06%) Software Testing
12 236 (8.39%) SDLC
13 223 (7.92%) Line Management
14 221 (7.85%) Software Engineering
15 217 (7.71%) QMS
16 188 (6.68%) Analytics
17 170 (6.04%) Computer Science
18 164 (5.83%) Roadmaps
19 161 (5.72%) Process Improvement
20 158 (5.61%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 328 (11.66%) SQL
2 321 (11.41%) C#
3 313 (11.12%) JavaScript
4 214 (7.60%) Python
5 193 (6.86%) Java
6 133 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 53 (1.88%) C++
8 43 (1.53%) Kotlin
9 42 (1.49%) C
10 41 (1.46%) VB
11 36 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.10%) PHP
12 31 (1.10%) VB6
13 28 (1.00%) VB.NET
13 28 (1.00%) VBA
14 25 (0.89%) Scala
15 18 (0.64%) PL/1
16 16 (0.57%) PowerShell
17 15 (0.53%) Go
18 11 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 749 (26.62%) Degree
2 144 (5.12%) Security Cleared
3 136 (4.83%) HNC
4 109 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.84%) SC Cleared
6 72 (2.56%) ISTQB
7 55 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.31%) DBS Check
10 33 (1.17%) PMI Certification
11 26 (0.92%) PMP
12 21 (0.75%) ISEB
12 21 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.50%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.50%) PhD
15 13 (0.46%) MBA
16 12 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.28%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (5.61%) GMP
2 42 (1.49%) Good Clinical Practice
3 39 (1.39%) ISO 9001
4 36 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.24%) Data Quality
6 31 (1.10%) PMO
7 29 (1.03%) GDPR
8 24 (0.85%) GxP
9 23 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 23 (0.82%) NCSC
10 22 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
11 19 (0.68%) ISO 14001
11 19 (0.68%) SLA
12 15 (0.53%) NEBOSH
13 14 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.46%) GLP
14 13 (0.46%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.36%) ISO 13485
16 9 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 77 (2.74%) Docker
2 30 (1.07%) Firmware
3 22 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.71%) Active Directory
5 12 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.25%) vSphere
7 6 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.18%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.071%) HDFS
9 2 (0.071%) Varnish
10 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.036%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 76 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.78%) Terraform
3 27 (0.96%) Ansible
4 13 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
5 11 (0.39%) SCCM
6 9 (0.32%) Puppet
6 9 (0.32%) Sysprep
6 9 (0.32%) WSUS
7 8 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (0.14%) Kibana
11 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.11%) Grafana
11 3 (0.11%) Istio
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.11%) Podman
12 2 (0.071%) Packer
13 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 364 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 138 (4.90%) Google
3 122 (4.34%) NEC
4 67 (2.38%) SAP
5 48 (1.71%) Oracle
6 34 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 33 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 25 (0.89%) NCR
9 24 (0.85%) Databricks
10 19 (0.68%) Cisco
11 14 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 14 (0.50%) BT
11 14 (0.50%) VMware
12 13 (0.46%) Adobe
13 8 (0.28%) Marketo
13 8 (0.28%) QAD
13 8 (0.28%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.25%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.25%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.25%) EMC