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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 56 10
Rank change year-on-year +15 -46 +27
Permanent jobs citing QA 29 50 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 4.05% 4.58% 21.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.32% 28.25% 84.42%
Number of salaries quoted 20 26 46
10th Percentile £31,700 £35,000 £13,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,125 £53,750
90th Percentile - £61,250 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £54,694 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +15.15% -1.04% +5.49%

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 136 177 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 18.99% 16.21% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 50 106 59
10th Percentile £31,100 £25,250 £13,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £26,750 £36,359
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £36,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -19.44% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £56,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,625 £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 17 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 17 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 +8 10 £55,000 +50.68% 1
Leicester +28 5 £32,000 -37.56% 9
Market Harborough - 3 £45,000 - 3
Coalville - 3 £40,000 - 4
Wigston +4 1 - -
Lutterworth -22 1 £30,000 -
Hinckley -29 1 - -
QA
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 (20.69%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Dynamics 365
1 10 (34.48%) Power Automate
1 10 (34.48%) Power Platform
1 10 (34.48%) PowerApps
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.45%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Power BI
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Bitbucket
1 6 (20.69%) Cucumber
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
1 6 (20.69%) Maven
1 6 (20.69%) Selenium
1 6 (20.69%) SonarQube
1 6 (20.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (13.79%) Postman
3 2 (6.90%) JMeter
3 2 (6.90%) LoadRunner
3 2 (6.90%) Subversion
3 2 (6.90%) TortoiseSVN
4 1 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
1 9 (31.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (20.69%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
1 10 (34.48%) Power Platform Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) CRM Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Quality Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) QA Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) ICT Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Applications Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) QA Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Software Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Tester
7 1 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) CSS
2 6 (20.69%) Hibernate
2 6 (20.69%) HTML
2 6 (20.69%) JPA
2 6 (20.69%) Kafka
2 6 (20.69%) React
2 6 (20.69%) Redux
2 6 (20.69%) Spring
2 6 (20.69%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.90%) Playwright
3 2 (6.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Product Ownership
2 6 (20.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) CRM
2 9 (31.03%) Agile
2 9 (31.03%) SDLC
3 8 (27.59%) DevOps
4 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
5 6 (20.69%) Clean Code
5 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
5 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.69%) Front End Development
5 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (20.69%) Microservices
5 6 (20.69%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
5 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
5 6 (20.69%) TDD
6 4 (13.79%) API Testing
7 3 (10.34%) Case Management
7 3 (10.34%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) C#
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) ISO 14001
1 1 (3.45%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Solace
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft