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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 84 40
Rank change year-on-year +13 -44 +10
Permanent jobs citing QA 540 806 2,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.18% 3.41% 6.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.50% 23.94% 38.79%
Number of salaries quoted 390 633 1,283
10th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £106,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 2,118 3,367 5,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.38% 14.24% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 2,486 3,626
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £102,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
Central London -13 90 £75,000 - 53
West London +22 18 £30,000 -64.71% 36
South London -28 6 £58,322 +16.64% 15
North London +1 4 £65,000 +62.50% 2
East London -24 3 £100,000 +53.85% 14
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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 11 (2.04%) Confluence
2 9 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.11%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Liferay
4 5 (0.93%) nginx
5 4 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.37%) Appian
7 2 (0.37%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 25 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.93%) Trello
5 4 (0.74%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.74%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.37%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 9 (1.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.56%) CA PPM
4 3 (0.56%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.19%) Endur
6 1 (0.19%) Relativity
6 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (20.74%) Azure
2 73 (13.52%) AWS
3 39 (7.22%) GCP
4 36 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (5.74%) GitHub
6 28 (5.19%) Serverless
7 23 (4.26%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.22%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (2.04%) SaaS
12 10 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (1.48%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.30%) Power Automate
15 7 (1.30%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.22%) Multicast
2 11 (2.04%) Firewall
3 6 (1.11%) VLAN
4 4 (0.74%) DNS
4 4 (0.74%) HTTP
4 4 (0.74%) Network Security
5 3 (0.56%) BGP
5 3 (0.56%) HSRP
5 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.56%) WAN
5 3 (0.56%) Wireless
6 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.19%) DHCP
7 1 (0.19%) eduroam
7 1 (0.19%) Internet
7 1 (0.19%) Intranet
7 1 (0.19%) SSH
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) Value-Added Service
7 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (4.07%) Relational Database
3 20 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (3.52%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.52%) Power BI
5 18 (3.33%) MySQL
6 15 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 15 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.85%) RDBMS
9 9 (1.67%) Tableau
10 7 (1.30%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.93%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 4 (0.74%) Metadata
12 4 (0.74%) OLTP
13 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (8.70%) JIRA
2 45 (8.33%) Git
3 43 (7.96%) Selenium
4 25 (4.63%) Postman
5 22 (4.07%) Jenkins
6 16 (2.96%) GitLab
7 14 (2.59%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.22%) Gradle
8 12 (2.22%) JMeter
8 12 (2.22%) SoapUI
8 12 (2.22%) SpecFlow
9 11 (2.04%) Appium
10 9 (1.67%) JUnit
10 9 (1.67%) TestNG
11 7 (1.30%) Maven
11 7 (1.30%) MSTest
11 7 (1.30%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.11%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.11%) Mocha
13 5 (0.93%) Moq
General
1 227 (42.04%) Social Skills
2 161 (29.81%) Finance
3 109 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.19%) Manufacturing
5 53 (9.81%) Marketing
6 38 (7.04%) Banking
7 34 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (6.30%) Legal
8 30 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (5.56%) Publishing
9 29 (5.37%) Games
10 26 (4.81%) Public Sector
11 25 (4.63%) Retail
12 22 (4.07%) Health Technology
12 22 (4.07%) Telecoms
13 19 (3.52%) Electronics
13 19 (3.52%) Tech for Good
14 15 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (2.22%) Law
16 11 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (23.33%) Senior
2 102 (18.89%) Developer
3 58 (10.74%) Senior Developer
4 55 (10.19%) Lead
5 46 (8.52%) QA Engineer
6 45 (8.33%) Analyst
7 29 (5.37%) QA Officer
8 26 (4.81%) Consultant
9 24 (4.44%) Project Manager
10 23 (4.26%) Senior Manager
10 23 (4.26%) Support Manager
11 21 (3.89%) Business Analyst
11 21 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 20 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 20 (3.70%) Software Developer
13 19 (3.52%) Python Developer
13 19 (3.52%) Python Engineer
14 18 (3.33%) QA Leader
14 18 (3.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 17 (3.15%) Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.59%) React
2 31 (5.74%) .NET
2 31 (5.74%) RESTful
3 28 (5.19%) REST
4 25 (4.63%) pytest
5 24 (4.44%) Playwright
5 24 (4.44%) Swagger
6 23 (4.26%) CSS
6 23 (4.26%) HTML
7 18 (3.33%) Node.js
8 16 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (2.59%) Next.js
10 13 (2.41%) Web Services
11 11 (2.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 11 (2.04%) FastAPI
12 10 (1.85%) JSON
13 9 (1.67%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.67%) OAuth
13 9 (1.67%) XML
14 8 (1.48%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.81%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.63%) Mobile Games
3 18 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 16 (2.96%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.96%) Fixed Income
4 16 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.96%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.22%) Derivative
5 12 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.04%) Educational Technology
6 11 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 9 (1.67%) Equities
8 9 (1.67%) Life Science
9 8 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.48%) Digital Media
9 8 (1.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.59%) Linux
2 27 (5.00%) Android
3 25 (4.63%) Apple iOS
4 14 (2.59%) Windows
5 8 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.30%) CentOS
7 3 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.56%) Rocky
7 3 (0.56%) Unix
8 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (32.59%) Agile
2 147 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (21.85%) Test Automation
4 114 (21.11%) DevOps
5 105 (19.44%) Project Management
6 96 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 80 (14.81%) Mentoring
8 78 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (11.30%) Software Testing
10 59 (10.93%) Scrum
11 57 (10.56%) Computer Science
12 50 (9.26%) Software Engineering
13 49 (9.07%) Project Delivery
14 47 (8.70%) Test Scripting
15 41 (7.59%) Process Improvement
15 41 (7.59%) Quality Management
16 38 (7.04%) Roadmaps
17 37 (6.85%) Collaborative Working
17 37 (6.85%) ITIL
18 36 (6.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (20.74%) Python
2 93 (17.22%) SQL
3 60 (11.11%) Java
4 54 (10.00%) C#
4 54 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 40 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.70%) Swift
7 18 (3.33%) Kotlin
8 17 (3.15%) C++
8 17 (3.15%) Objective-C
9 11 (2.04%) Bash
10 9 (1.67%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.11%) PHP
12 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.56%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.56%) Go
13 3 (0.56%) Ruby
13 3 (0.56%) Scala
13 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 121 (22.41%) Degree
2 37 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 37 (6.85%) PMI Certification
3 34 (6.30%) PMP
4 29 (5.37%) ISTQB
5 23 (4.26%) CISSP
6 13 (2.41%) DBS Check
7 12 (2.22%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.22%) Security Cleared
8 9 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.30%) CCSAS
9 7 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.30%) ISEB
10 6 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.11%) CCNP
11 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.93%) CCSAM
11 5 (0.93%) CHECK Team Leader
11 5 (0.93%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.63%) GMP
2 22 (4.07%) GDPR
3 19 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.33%) PMO
5 12 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.85%) Software Quality Assurance
7 7 (1.30%) Good Clinical Practice
8 4 (0.74%) CDISC
8 4 (0.74%) P3O
8 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.74%) SLA
9 3 (0.56%) NCSC
10 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.19%) DICOM
11 1 (0.19%) HL7
11 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (7.59%) Docker
2 6 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.81%) Terraform
3 13 (2.41%) Ansible
4 10 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.48%) Argo
5 8 (1.48%) Grafana
6 7 (1.30%) Nagios
7 3 (0.56%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.37%) SCCM
9 1 (0.19%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.19%) Istio
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) logstash
9 1 (0.19%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.19%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (7.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.81%) Google
2 26 (4.81%) SAP
3 13 (2.41%) Adobe
4 12 (2.22%) New Relic
5 9 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.30%) Databricks
8 5 (0.93%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.74%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.74%) iManage
9 4 (0.74%) Intapp
9 4 (0.74%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.74%) Marketo
9 4 (0.74%) Planview
9 4 (0.74%) Rapid7
9 4 (0.74%) Splunk
10 3 (0.56%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.56%) IBM
10 3 (0.56%) VMware