QA Jobs in Kent

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 52 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 -27 +20
Permanent jobs citing QA 11 57 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.33% 3.77% 8.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.58% 21.59% 35.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7 40 7
10th Percentile £30,500 £24,025 £31,150
25th Percentile £30,875 £26,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -1.33% -42.31%
75th Percentile £54,567 £68,125 £54,375
90th Percentile £63,300 £87,500 £70,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 95 264 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 11.50% 17.47% 24.62%
Number of salaries quoted 38 194 73
10th Percentile - £23,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,965 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £77,000
South East median annual salary £62,000 £46,000 £50,421
% change year-on-year +34.78% -8.77% -3.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Kent

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Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for QA in Kent

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Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Kent over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Kent

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Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Kent region over the 6 months to 17 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
Tunbridge Wells +2 2 £49,134 +78.67%
Maidstone - 2 £32,500 - 2
Margate - 2 - -
Snodland - 2 £31,000 -
Dartford +8 1 £45,000 - 2
QA
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Bluetooth
1 1 (9.09%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) PHPUnit
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) QA Tester
1 2 (18.18%) Quality Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Technical Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) Tester
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Development Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) QA Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) CakePHP
1 4 (36.36%) CSS
1 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) Laravel
2 2 (18.18%) LAMP
3 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 1 (9.09%) JPA
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) pytest
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) Redux
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Housing Association
1 1 (9.09%) IoT
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
2 4 (36.36%) System Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Validation
3 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) OOP
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Business Transformation
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) Product Management
5 1 (9.09%) Security Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Test Management
5 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
5 1 (9.09%) Time Management
5 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) PHP
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (9.09%) Automotive SPICE
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Functional Safety
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Solace