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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 73 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 -44 +42
Permanent jobs citing QA 14 56 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.80% 2.47% 8.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.84% 19.65% 52.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 42 81
10th Percentile £31,400 £39,775 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,813 £42,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £45,250 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £95,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.00% +5.26% -9.52%

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 109 285 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 14.03% 12.57% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 86 184 268
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,890 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,500 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,207 £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +22.22%

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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 14 May 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 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) Blender
2 2 (14.29%) Maya
3 1 (7.14%) ZBrush
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) mabl
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Games
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 2 (14.29%) Marketing
4 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Officer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Animator
4 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Games Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 2 (14.29%) Flask
2 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (14.29%) React
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Vue
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Animation
2 1 (7.14%) Interactive Media
2 1 (7.14%) State Machine
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Innovative Thinking
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Secure Coding
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Debt
5 2 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GMP
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus