QA Jobs in Leicestershire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 63 12
Rank change year-on-year +25 -51 +21
Permanent jobs citing QA 33 48 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 4.76% 4.20% 18.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.61% 26.67% 83.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24 26 40
10th Percentile £39,208 £35,000 £13,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £35,750 £29,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £58,375 £61,250 -
East Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -1.04% +6.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 124 180 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 17.87% 15.73% 22.19%
Number of salaries quoted 46 110 52
10th Percentile £38,184 £25,850 £13,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £26,750 £36,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £35,500 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +36.62% -21.55% +0.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £46,875 £57,813
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,125 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +5.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Leicestershire

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Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for QA in Leicestershire

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Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Leicestershire

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Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Loughborough +9 12 £55,000 +50.68% 4
Leicester +27 5 £51,250 - 79
Coalville - 5 £40,000 - 2
Market Harborough - 3 £45,000 - 3
Wigston +3 1 - -
Hinckley -26 1 - -
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East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Power Platform
2 12 (36.36%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (36.36%) Power Automate
2 12 (36.36%) PowerApps
3 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Azure
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) Power BI
2 7 (21.21%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 6 (18.18%) Cucumber
1 6 (18.18%) GitLab
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
1 6 (18.18%) Maven
1 6 (18.18%) Selenium
1 6 (18.18%) SonarQube
1 6 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) JMeter
2 2 (6.06%) LoadRunner
2 2 (6.06%) Postman
3 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
1 9 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
5 2 (6.06%) Social Housing
6 1 (3.03%) Automotive
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Power Platform Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Analyst
3 8 (24.24%) CRM Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Quality Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) QA Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) ICT Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Appian Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.03%) C# Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Lead
8 1 (3.03%) QA Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) QA Tester
8 1 (3.03%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) .NET
2 6 (18.18%) CSS
2 6 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 6 (18.18%) HTML
2 6 (18.18%) JPA
2 6 (18.18%) Kafka
2 6 (18.18%) React
2 6 (18.18%) Redux
2 6 (18.18%) Spring
2 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.06%) Playwright
3 2 (6.06%) Swagger
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth
4 1 (3.03%) OpenID
4 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (36.36%) CRM
3 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 10 (30.30%) SDLC
4 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 8 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
5 7 (21.21%) Clean Code
5 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) Microservices
5 7 (21.21%) TDD
6 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.18%) Front End Development
6 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 5 (15.15%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (9.09%) Case Management
9 3 (9.09%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) C#
2 8 (24.24%) SQL
3 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.03%) NVQ Level 4
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO 14001
1 1 (3.03%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Solace
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft