QA Jobs in Leicester

Quality Assurance (QA)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 52 11
Rank change year-on-year +28 -41 +31
Permanent jobs citing QA 5 17 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 3.38% 2.85% 20.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.73% 21.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 25
10th Percentile £29,900 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £51,250 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.56% +12.64% +32.36%
75th Percentile £35,875 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £42,850 £75,625 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +37.50% -5.88% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 80 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 14.86% 13.42% 23.79%
Number of salaries quoted 16 49 32
10th Percentile £32,000 £24,500 £35,446
25th Percentile £42,188 £26,750 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £36,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.72% -20.88% -4.21%
75th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £64,148 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £46,750 £36,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +28.08% -18.89% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Leicester

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Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for QA in Leicester

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Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Leicester over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Software Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) JPA
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Redux
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) API Testing
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) FMEA
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Lean Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 14001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Solace