QA Job Trends in London

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 72 84
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 -44
Permanent jobs citing QA 523 538 803
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.58% 4.29% 3.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.45% 25.41% 23.91%
Number of salaries quoted 342 388 633
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% -11.67%

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 2,689 2,117 3,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.29% 16.87% 14.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,793 1,284 2,492
10th Percentile £42,550 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

QA job vacancy trend in London

QA
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing QA

QA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in London

QA
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 12 May 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
Central London -10 77 £75,000 - 60
West London -17 21 £30,000 - 9
South London +18 9 £40,000 -31.42% 6
North London +8 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
East London -9 3 £30,000 -70.00% 9
QA
England

QA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (1.72%) Confluence
2 7 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.38%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) nginx
4 2 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) JBoss
5 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.76%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.57%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.57%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 86 (16.44%) Azure
2 73 (13.96%) AWS
3 36 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (6.69%) Power Platform
5 28 (5.35%) GitHub
5 28 (5.35%) SaaS
6 25 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (4.78%) GCP
6 25 (4.78%) Serverless
7 17 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (2.87%) Power Automate
10 14 (2.68%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (2.10%) Tricentis Tosca
12 9 (1.72%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (0.96%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.25%) Multicast
2 12 (2.29%) Broadband
3 4 (0.76%) DNS
3 4 (0.76%) VLAN
4 3 (0.57%) NGN
5 2 (0.38%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) LAN
5 2 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.38%) WAN
5 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) DMARC
6 1 (0.19%) Firewall
6 1 (0.19%) HTTP
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) LTE
6 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) VoIP
6 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.25%) Power BI
2 12 (2.29%) MySQL
3 10 (1.91%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.53%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.34%) Tableau
7 6 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.76%) Metadata
10 3 (0.57%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 55 (10.52%) Git
2 51 (9.75%) JIRA
3 40 (7.65%) Selenium
4 20 (3.82%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.44%) Postman
6 16 (3.06%) GitLab
7 13 (2.49%) Jenkins
7 13 (2.49%) SpecFlow
8 8 (1.53%) WebDriver
9 6 (1.15%) JMeter
10 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.96%) JUnit
10 5 (0.96%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.96%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.76%) TestRail
12 3 (0.57%) Appium
12 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.57%) WinDbg
General
1 216 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 192 (36.71%) Finance
3 89 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (16.25%) Banking
5 57 (10.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (9.75%) Retail
7 31 (5.93%) Local Government
8 23 (4.40%) Law
9 22 (4.21%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.25%) Marketing
11 16 (3.06%) French Language
11 16 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.87%) Legal
13 13 (2.49%) Health Technology
13 13 (2.49%) Public Sector
14 12 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (2.29%) Publishing
14 12 (2.29%) Tech for Good
15 9 (1.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 99 (18.93%) Senior
2 72 (13.77%) Lead
3 51 (9.75%) Analyst
4 47 (8.99%) Developer
5 35 (6.69%) QA Engineer
6 32 (6.12%) Tester
7 31 (5.93%) Consultant
8 26 (4.97%) QA Manager
9 25 (4.78%) Software Engineer
10 21 (4.02%) Test Manager
11 19 (3.63%) Python Engineer
11 19 (3.63%) Senior Consultant
12 18 (3.44%) React Developer
12 18 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (3.44%) Test Leader
13 16 (3.06%) Lead Developer
13 16 (3.06%) QA Automation Engineer
13 16 (3.06%) Quality Manager
14 15 (2.87%) C++ Software Engineer
14 15 (2.87%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.93%) RESTful
2 29 (5.54%) .NET
2 29 (5.54%) Playwright
3 26 (4.97%) REST
4 24 (4.59%) React
5 18 (3.44%) pytest
6 17 (3.25%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (3.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 14 (2.68%) Node.js
9 11 (2.10%) SOAP
10 8 (1.53%) Spring
10 8 (1.53%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.34%) JSON
11 7 (1.34%) Swagger
11 7 (1.34%) XML
12 6 (1.15%) Kafka
13 4 (0.76%) CSS
13 4 (0.76%) Django
13 4 (0.76%) STL
13 4 (0.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.31%) Security Posture
2 25 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.63%) Equities
4 17 (3.25%) Algorithms
4 17 (3.25%) Derivative
4 17 (3.25%) Fixed Income
5 16 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.10%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.10%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.34%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.96%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.76%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.12%) Linux
2 15 (2.87%) Windows
3 13 (2.49%) Android
4 10 (1.91%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.34%) CentOS
6 3 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.38%) Rocky
7 2 (0.38%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (26.20%) Agile
2 119 (22.75%) Test Automation
3 109 (20.84%) CI/CD
4 108 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 107 (20.46%) DevOps
6 101 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (14.72%) Mentoring
8 68 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
9 66 (12.62%) Project Management
10 63 (12.05%) Test Strategy
11 62 (11.85%) AI
12 59 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 49 (9.37%) SDLC
14 47 (8.99%) Software Engineering
15 46 (8.80%) Risk Management
15 46 (8.80%) User Acceptance Testing
16 45 (8.60%) Project Delivery
17 44 (8.41%) ITIL
17 44 (8.41%) Process Improvement
17 44 (8.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (16.83%) Python
2 62 (11.85%) SQL
3 44 (8.41%) TypeScript
4 41 (7.84%) C#
5 38 (7.27%) Java
6 32 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.97%) C++
8 15 (2.87%) Bash
9 8 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.34%) Go
11 5 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.38%) Groovy
14 2 (0.38%) Perl
14 2 (0.38%) RPG
14 2 (0.38%) VBA
14 2 (0.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 68 (13.00%) Degree
2 46 (8.80%) CISSP
3 33 (6.31%) CISM
4 24 (4.59%) Master's Degree
5 20 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.63%) CRISC
7 18 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (3.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 17 (3.25%) CCSP
8 17 (3.25%) ISTQB
8 17 (3.25%) PMI Certification
8 17 (3.25%) Security Cleared
9 15 (2.87%) PMP
10 12 (2.29%) AWS Certification
11 11 (2.10%) MCSE
11 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.72%) SC Cleared
13 8 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.76%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 36 (6.88%) NIST
2 31 (5.93%) GDPR
3 25 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 19 (3.63%) Software Quality Assurance
5 16 (3.06%) GRC
5 16 (3.06%) NIST 800
6 14 (2.68%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.53%) GMP
8 8 (1.53%) PMO
9 6 (1.15%) SLA
10 4 (0.76%) MiFID
10 4 (0.76%) WCAG
11 3 (0.57%) ISO 13485
11 3 (0.57%) PERC
12 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.19%) Basel II
System Software
1 27 (5.16%) Docker
2 8 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.96%) IAG
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.63%) Terraform
3 17 (3.25%) Ansible
4 11 (2.10%) Grafana
5 7 (1.34%) Nagios
6 4 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.38%) Argo
7 2 (0.38%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.38%) Puppet
7 2 (0.38%) Rancher
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.19%) SCCM
8 1 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 58 (11.09%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.40%) ServiceNow
3 18 (3.44%) SAP
4 12 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.53%) Oracle
5 8 (1.53%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.53%) Splunk
6 6 (1.15%) Google
6 6 (1.15%) VMware
7 5 (0.96%) Rapid7
8 4 (0.76%) Databricks
8 4 (0.76%) Intapp
8 4 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.57%) Charles River
9 3 (0.57%) Pega
9 3 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.57%) SendGrid
9 3 (0.57%) Solace
9 3 (0.57%) Veeam