QA Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 53 73
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 -22
Permanent jobs citing QA 16 24 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 2.47% 3.81% 3.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.24% 46.15% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £37,500 - £16,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £40,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +73.73%
75th Percentile £59,375 £65,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £70,625 £71,750 £89,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £56,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -6.25% +26.32%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 66 52 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.19% 8.25% 14.43%
Number of salaries quoted 44 26 99
10th Percentile £35,536 £31,375 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +46.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £61,123
90th Percentile £81,375 £73,750 £76,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

QA job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

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Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Gloucestershire

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Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Gloucester +14 8 £45,000 +12.50% 6
Filton - 4 - - 1
Cheltenham 0 1 £60,000 - 9
QA
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Subversion
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) QA Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Trainer
4 2 (12.50%) Web Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Release Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 4 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) QMS
3 4 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 4 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Kanban
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Validation
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Go
2 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Argo
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Rancher
1 3 (18.75%) yum
2 2 (12.50%) FTK