QA Jobs in London

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 +10
Permanent jobs citing QA 760 1,413 5,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.66% 5.21% 7.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.05% 34.24% 45.47%
Number of salaries quoted 496 1,053 2,232
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,631 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £86,563 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,034 4,127 12,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.63% 15.22% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,028 3,111 5,563
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in London

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Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA in London

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Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in London

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Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Central London -22 123 £65,000 -13.33% 27
South London -20 50 £65,000 +36.84% 3
West London -49 16 £85,000 +80.85% 27
East London +31 14 £65,000 +66.67% 8
North London +8 7 £50,000 +7.53% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (2.50%) Apache
2 15 (1.97%) Confluence
3 13 (1.71%) CMS
4 12 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.32%) Drupal
7 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.05%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.92%) IIS
9 6 (0.79%) nginx
10 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.26%) Moodle
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.13%) SAS
12 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) Notion
5 2 (0.26%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.13%) Blender
6 1 (0.13%) InDesign
6 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.13%) Sketch
6 1 (0.13%) UXPin
6 1 (0.13%) Windchill
6 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 11 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Lawson
4 3 (0.39%) Endur
5 2 (0.26%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.26%) Findur
5 2 (0.26%) Odoo
5 2 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 169 (22.24%) Azure
2 139 (18.29%) AWS
3 81 (10.66%) GCP
4 49 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (4.87%) Power Platform
6 30 (3.95%) SaaS
7 27 (3.55%) Serverless
8 24 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 15 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.58%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (1.32%) GitHub
13 10 (1.32%) Google Analytics
14 9 (1.18%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.05%) Azure Functions
15 8 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
16 7 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (0.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.05%) HTTP
1 8 (1.05%) Internet
2 5 (0.66%) SSH
3 4 (0.53%) DNS
4 3 (0.39%) SMTP
4 3 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.26%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.13%) DHCP
6 1 (0.13%) Firewall
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) ICMP
6 1 (0.13%) IPv4
6 1 (0.13%) IPv6
6 1 (0.13%) Multicast
6 1 (0.13%) Network Security
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.13%) VLAN
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 19 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.58%) Apache Hive
4 11 (1.45%) Power BI
5 10 (1.32%) Presto
6 9 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.05%) MySQL
8 6 (0.79%) SAP BW
9 5 (0.66%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.66%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.66%) Tableau
10 4 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.53%) Essbase
10 4 (0.53%) MS Access
11 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 78 (10.26%) JIRA
2 66 (8.68%) Git
3 38 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 34 (4.47%) Jenkins
5 32 (4.21%) Postman
6 28 (3.68%) Selenium
7 20 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.24%) JUnit
9 16 (2.11%) SpecFlow
10 9 (1.18%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.05%) Appium
11 8 (1.05%) JMeter
12 7 (0.92%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.92%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.79%) GitLab
13 6 (0.79%) LoadRunner
13 6 (0.79%) NeoLoad
13 6 (0.79%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.66%) fastlane
14 5 (0.66%) TestRail
General
1 298 (39.21%) Social Skills
2 174 (22.89%) Finance
3 124 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.42%) Manufacturing
5 57 (7.50%) Legal
6 49 (6.45%) Retail
7 48 (6.32%) Marketing
8 39 (5.13%) Front Office
9 38 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (4.87%) Banking
10 37 (4.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 33 (4.34%) Law
12 28 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (2.63%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.24%) Electronics
14 17 (2.24%) Police
15 16 (2.11%) Public Sector
16 14 (1.84%) Private Banking
17 12 (1.58%) Games
18 5 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 146 (19.21%) Senior
2 111 (14.61%) Developer
3 85 (11.18%) Lead
4 81 (10.66%) Software Engineer
5 75 (9.87%) QA Manager
6 60 (7.89%) Project Manager
7 53 (6.97%) Analyst
8 49 (6.45%) .NET Developer
9 42 (5.53%) Administrator
9 42 (5.53%) QA Engineer
10 31 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
11 29 (3.82%) QA Leader
11 29 (3.82%) Senior Developer
12 27 (3.55%) Architect
12 27 (3.55%) Software Manager
13 26 (3.42%) .NET Software Developer
13 26 (3.42%) .NET Software Engineer
13 26 (3.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 26 (3.42%) Finance Manager
13 26 (3.42%) Software Asset Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (14.61%) .NET
2 84 (11.05%) React
3 59 (7.76%) .NET Core
4 57 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 47 (6.18%) HTML
6 45 (5.92%) CSS
7 44 (5.79%) REST
8 40 (5.26%) .NET Framework
9 33 (4.34%) GraphQL
10 32 (4.21%) RESTful
11 30 (3.95%) Vue
12 26 (3.42%) jQuery
12 26 (3.42%) Redux
13 25 (3.29%) ASP.NET
14 24 (3.16%) Node.js
15 23 (3.03%) Lambda Expressions
16 22 (2.89%) Entity Framework
16 22 (2.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 20 (2.63%) http4s
17 20 (2.63%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.37%) Life Science
2 41 (5.39%) Derivative
3 40 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 40 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.82%) Equities
5 29 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 28 (3.68%) Fixed Income
7 25 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.50%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.97%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.58%) Blog
11 12 (1.58%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.45%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.45%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.32%) IoT
13 10 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.82%) Linux
2 20 (2.63%) Android
3 18 (2.37%) Windows
4 15 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.92%) Unix
5 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Rocky
6 1 (0.13%) tvOS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (31.71%) Agile
2 154 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
3 138 (18.16%) DevOps
4 135 (17.76%) Test Automation
5 126 (16.58%) Software Engineering
6 121 (15.92%) CI/CD
7 113 (14.87%) Project Management
8 99 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 96 (12.63%) Scrum
10 79 (10.39%) TDD
11 77 (10.13%) Full Stack Development
12 76 (10.00%) Quality Management
13 70 (9.21%) Mentoring
14 64 (8.42%) Roadmaps
15 63 (8.29%) Risk Management
16 62 (8.16%) Microservices
16 62 (8.16%) QMS
17 59 (7.76%) Analytics
17 59 (7.76%) Computer Science
18 53 (6.97%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 116 (15.26%) C#
2 112 (14.74%) JavaScript
3 111 (14.61%) Python
4 103 (13.55%) SQL
5 102 (13.42%) Java
6 71 (9.34%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.34%) Kotlin
8 24 (3.16%) Scala
9 14 (1.84%) C++
9 14 (1.84%) PL/1
10 6 (0.79%) Haskell
10 6 (0.79%) Ruby
10 6 (0.79%) Rust
11 5 (0.66%) Bash
11 5 (0.66%) Go
11 5 (0.66%) Swift
12 4 (0.53%) Perl
12 4 (0.53%) PHP
12 4 (0.53%) VBA
13 2 (0.26%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 166 (21.84%) Degree
2 48 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (3.55%) Security Cleared
4 22 (2.89%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.50%) ISTQB
6 16 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 12 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.45%) PMP
8 11 (1.45%) SC Cleared
9 10 (1.32%) ISEB
10 8 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.92%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 6 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.53%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.53%) HNC
14 4 (0.53%) NVQ Level 3
15 3 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.61%) GMP
2 30 (3.95%) Good Clinical Practice
3 16 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.71%) GLP
5 11 (1.45%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.32%) PMO
7 8 (1.05%) ISO 9001
7 8 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.05%) Software Quality Assurance
8 7 (0.92%) GDPR
8 7 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.79%) MiFID
9 6 (0.79%) NIST
9 6 (0.79%) UCITS
10 4 (0.53%) GRC
11 3 (0.39%) COBIT
11 3 (0.39%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.39%) SLA
12 2 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 2 (0.26%) PMBOK
System Software
1 22 (2.89%) Docker
1 22 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.79%) Firmware
3 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) HDFS
5 2 (0.26%) Varnish
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 39 (5.13%) Terraform
2 32 (4.21%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.45%) Ansible
4 6 (0.79%) Puppet
5 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.39%) Istio
6 2 (0.26%) Kibana
6 2 (0.26%) Packer
7 1 (0.13%) Grafana
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) Nagios
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 122 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.71%) Google
3 18 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 18 (2.37%) SAP
4 17 (2.24%) Databricks
5 13 (1.71%) Atlassian
6 12 (1.58%) Oracle
7 9 (1.18%) Adobe
8 8 (1.05%) Marketo
8 8 (1.05%) QAD
9 7 (0.92%) Bloomberg
9 7 (0.92%) CheckPoint
10 6 (0.79%) Aderant
10 6 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.66%) Sybase
11 5 (0.66%) UiPath
12 4 (0.53%) Adyen
12 4 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.53%) Cognos
12 4 (0.53%) JD Edwards