QA Job Trends in Kensington and Chelsea

Quality Assurance (QA)
Central London > Kensington and Chelsea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kensington and Chelsea requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QA 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kensington and Chelsea 33.33% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £125,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 - -
75th Percentile £135,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -15.63% +6.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Kensington and Chelsea

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 Kensington and Chelsea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kensington and Chelsea 66.67% 18.42% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £68,750 - -
25th Percentile £78,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 - £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.65%
75th Percentile £118,125 - £43,750
90th Percentile £128,250 - £49,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Kensington and Chelsea

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

QA job vacancy trend in Kensington and Chelsea

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Salary Trend in Kensington and Chelsea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kensington and Chelsea citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kensington and Chelsea citing QA

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Job Locations in Kensington and Chelsea

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Kensington and Chelsea region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Chelsea - 1 £130,000 -
Kensington - 1 £130,000 -
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Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kensington and Chelsea 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Energy Derivatives
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google