QA Jobs in Leeds

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 78 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 -44 +37
Permanent jobs citing QA 11 56 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.41% 2.32% 8.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% 20.59% 49.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6 46 81
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,813 £40,991 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £96,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £48,731
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.60% -2.54%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 99 272 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 12.66% 11.29% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 78 172 257
10th Percentile £37,100 £29,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £51,466 £38,890 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,622 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,500 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £87,250 £95,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £54,941
% change year-on-year +15.00% -8.99% +22.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Leeds

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Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for QA in Leeds

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Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) mabl
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (18.18%) Redis
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Postman
2 2 (18.18%) SoapUI
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Support
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) QA Officer
2 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Flask
2 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
2 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (18.18%) React
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) SOAP
2 2 (18.18%) Vue
3 1 (9.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Software Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
2 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Innovative Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Secure Coding
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Debt
3 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) Python
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 1 (9.09%) Go
6 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus