QA Jobs in Lancashire

Quality Assurance (QA)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 48 6
Rank change year-on-year -75 -42 +62
Permanent jobs citing QA 38 40 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.64% 3.06% 17.91%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% 27.97% 78.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 17
10th Percentile £39,250 £28,400 £35,130
25th Percentile £46,250 £30,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -15.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £53,750 £43,780 £61,250
90th Percentile - £45,000 £78,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +1.01%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 228 143 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.84% 10.92% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 94 100 46
10th Percentile £26,875 £25,000 £29,700
25th Percentile - £30,938 £40,209
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -20.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £55,350 £65,603 £77,500
North West median annual salary £47,683 £48,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -0.66% -3.03% -1.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Lancashire

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Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for QA in Lancashire

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Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Lancashire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Lancashire

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Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Chorley +3 6 £52,500 +250.00% 2
Blackburn -40 4 £47,500 +115.91%
Blackpool -31 2 - - 4
Carnforth - 1 £40,000 -
Lytham St Annes - 1 £35,000 - 2
QA
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 6 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) Azure
2 18 (47.37%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) GCP
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
1 3 (7.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (55.26%) Cucumber
2 18 (47.37%) Bitbucket
2 18 (47.37%) GitLab
2 18 (47.37%) JIRA
2 18 (47.37%) Maven
2 18 (47.37%) Selenium
2 18 (47.37%) SonarQube
2 18 (47.37%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (7.89%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.63%) Postman
4 1 (2.63%) TestComplete
General
1 23 (60.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 20 (52.63%) Finance
3 18 (47.37%) Banking
4 16 (42.11%) Retail
5 12 (31.58%) Corporate Banking
5 12 (31.58%) Investment Banking
6 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
8 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
9 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
9 2 (5.26%) Military
10 1 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Software Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Business Development Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Development Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Project Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Software Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Software Development Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Software Development Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Test Leader
5 3 (7.89%) Business Integration Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Integration Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 1 (2.63%) Quality Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) CSS
1 18 (47.37%) HTML
1 18 (47.37%) JPA
1 18 (47.37%) Kafka
1 18 (47.37%) React
1 18 (47.37%) Redux
1 18 (47.37%) Spring
1 18 (47.37%) Spring Boot
2 12 (31.58%) CSS3
2 12 (31.58%) HTML5
2 12 (31.58%) Jest
2 12 (31.58%) REST
2 12 (31.58%) RESTful
2 12 (31.58%) Sass
3 6 (15.79%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.63%) .NET
4 1 (2.63%) EDI
4 1 (2.63%) Laravel
4 1 (2.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (63.16%) Product Ownership
2 18 (47.37%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Agile
2 22 (57.89%) DevOps
2 22 (57.89%) Test Automation
3 19 (50.00%) SDLC
4 18 (47.37%) CI/CD
4 18 (47.37%) Containerisation
4 18 (47.37%) Front End Development
4 18 (47.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (47.37%) Mentoring
4 18 (47.37%) Microservices
4 18 (47.37%) Performance Optimisation
4 18 (47.37%) Software Engineering
5 12 (31.58%) Migration
5 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (31.58%) Responsive Web Design
5 12 (31.58%) Strategic Thinking
5 12 (31.58%) User Experience
6 8 (21.05%) Project Management
7 7 (18.42%) Software Testing
8 6 (15.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) JavaScript
2 20 (52.63%) SQL
3 18 (47.37%) Java
4 12 (31.58%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.53%) Python
6 3 (7.89%) Bash
6 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.53%) ITGC
3 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Solace
2 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) SAP