QA Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing QA 45 14 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Lincolnshire 11.75% 6.76% 6.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 56.96% 35.90% 91.67%
Number of salaries quoted 37 6 7
10th Percentile £26,000 - -
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +19.40% -16.25%
75th Percentile £35,000 £50,625 £43,125
90th Percentile £43,750 £63,125 £45,750
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -22.22% -2.70% -11.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 79 39 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 20.63% 18.84% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 63 9 8
10th Percentile £26,000 - -
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,000 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +36.05% -18.33%
75th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £64,750 £51,375
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £48,628
% change year-on-year -11.11% -7.46% -2.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire.

QA job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

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Salary Trend in Lincolnshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Lincolnshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Lincolnshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Lincolnshire

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Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Grantham -1 16 £30,000 -33.33%
Lincoln +1 10 £35,000 - 10
Spalding +2 3 - - 3
QA
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (15.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (55.56%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) JIRA
General
1 25 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (55.56%) Retail
1 25 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Law
3 1 (2.22%) Local Government
3 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (55.56%) 2nd Line Support
2 19 (42.22%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 9 (20.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) ERP Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) ERP Support
3 9 (20.00%) SaaS Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) Software Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) Software Support Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Product Owner
5 6 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 6 (13.33%) Applications Support
5 6 (13.33%) Applications Support Technician
5 6 (13.33%) Support Technician
6 5 (11.11%) Lead
7 4 (8.89%) QA Leader
7 4 (8.89%) QA Team Leader
7 4 (8.89%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 25 (55.56%) Onboarding
2 7 (15.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 26 (57.78%) Mentoring
3 25 (55.56%) Analytical Thinking
3 25 (55.56%) CRM
3 25 (55.56%) Customer Service
3 25 (55.56%) Data Privacy
3 25 (55.56%) E-Commerce
3 25 (55.56%) ERP
3 25 (55.56%) Logistics
3 25 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (55.56%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (17.78%) Agile
5 7 (15.56%) Backlog Refinement
5 7 (15.56%) Product Backlog
5 7 (15.56%) Sprint Planning
5 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (15.56%) User Experience
6 1 (2.22%) Decision-Making
6 1 (2.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (2.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) C#
1 25 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) Degree
1 1 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow