QA Jobs in London

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 40 49
Rank change year-on-year -45 +9 +13
Permanent jobs citing QA 816 2,240 4,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.45% 6.37% 7.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.30% 38.66% 45.17%
Number of salaries quoted 647 1,317 2,087
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,628 £43,700
25th Percentile £53,136 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £53,150 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.42% - +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,358 5,794 10,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.20% 16.49% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,489 3,723 5,233
10th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,957 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -21 158 £75,000 - 39
South London -50 37 £50,000 +42.86% 9
West London -66 25 £85,000 +70.00% 33
East London +36 20 £65,000 +47.73% 10
North London -3 3 £40,000 -13.98% 4
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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 22 (2.70%) Confluence
2 20 (2.45%) Apache
3 17 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.08%) CMS
4 12 (1.47%) Drupal
5 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.98%) Apache Pig
6 8 (0.98%) IIS
7 7 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.37%) Moodle
9 3 (0.37%) nginx
9 3 (0.37%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.37%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 43 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.49%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.49%) Trello
6 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) Blender
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Notion
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Revit
7 1 (0.12%) Sketch
7 1 (0.12%) UXPin
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.49%) Lawson
5 3 (0.37%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.37%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.37%) Shopify
6 2 (0.25%) Endur
6 2 (0.25%) Primavera
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.12%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.12%) Findur
7 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 194 (23.77%) Azure
2 135 (16.54%) AWS
3 74 (9.07%) GCP
4 68 (8.33%) SaaS
5 55 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (5.76%) Power Platform
7 31 (3.80%) Serverless
8 24 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 11 (1.35%) GitHub
11 10 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.10%) Google Analytics
13 8 (0.98%) AWS CodeCommit
13 8 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (0.86%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (0.74%) Azure Functions
15 6 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.96%) Internet
2 5 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (0.61%) LAN
2 5 (0.61%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.61%) WAN
2 5 (0.61%) Wireless
3 4 (0.49%) SSH
4 3 (0.37%) HTTP
4 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.25%) SMTP
6 1 (0.12%) 3G
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.31%) Power BI
3 22 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.84%) Apache Hive
6 15 (1.84%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.84%) Tableau
7 14 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 14 (1.72%) MySQL
8 11 (1.35%) Big Data
8 11 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.98%) Looker
11 7 (0.86%) GIS
11 7 (0.86%) Presto
11 7 (0.86%) Redis
12 6 (0.74%) PowerPivot
12 6 (0.74%) SAP BW
12 6 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (11.15%) Cucumber
2 81 (9.93%) JIRA
3 69 (8.46%) Jenkins
4 62 (7.60%) Postman
5 61 (7.48%) Selenium
6 59 (7.23%) Git
7 40 (4.90%) Cypress.io
8 24 (2.94%) JUnit
9 18 (2.21%) SpecFlow
10 16 (1.96%) Appium
11 10 (1.23%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.10%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.10%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.98%) Checkstyle
13 8 (0.98%) TestRail
13 8 (0.98%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.86%) Mockito
15 6 (0.74%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 5 (0.61%) fastlane
General
1 238 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 198 (24.26%) Finance
3 105 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.37%) Front Office
5 47 (5.76%) Marketing
6 46 (5.64%) Legal
7 45 (5.51%) Law
8 44 (5.39%) Retail
9 35 (4.29%) Banking
9 35 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 28 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 22 (2.70%) Public Sector
14 21 (2.57%) Police
15 16 (1.96%) Electronics
15 16 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.98%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 155 (19.00%) Senior
2 142 (17.40%) Developer
3 126 (15.44%) Lead
4 76 (9.31%) Software Engineer
5 73 (8.95%) Analyst
6 67 (8.21%) Project Manager
7 62 (7.60%) .NET Developer
8 57 (6.99%) QA Engineer
9 46 (5.64%) .NET Software Developer
10 44 (5.39%) .NET Software Engineer
11 42 (5.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 42 (5.15%) QA Manager
12 34 (4.17%) Software Manager
13 33 (4.04%) QA Leader
14 32 (3.92%) Finance Manager
14 32 (3.92%) Software Asset Manager
15 30 (3.68%) Senior Developer
16 29 (3.55%) Architect
17 26 (3.19%) Senior Manager
18 24 (2.94%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (15.32%) .NET
2 88 (10.78%) React
3 78 (9.56%) REST
4 59 (7.23%) AngularJS
5 52 (6.37%) .NET Core
6 48 (5.88%) Redux
7 44 (5.39%) Vue
8 38 (4.66%) .NET Framework
9 37 (4.53%) ASP.NET
10 36 (4.41%) HTML
11 35 (4.29%) JSON
12 34 (4.17%) RESTful
13 32 (3.92%) CSS
14 28 (3.43%) Spring
15 26 (3.19%) Web Services
16 22 (2.70%) Spring Boot
17 18 (2.21%) Entity Framework
18 17 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
18 17 (2.08%) GraphQL
18 17 (2.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.46%) Product Ownership
2 50 (6.13%) Hedge funds
3 49 (6.00%) Derivative
4 48 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (5.64%) Fixed Income
6 42 (5.15%) Equities
6 42 (5.15%) Management Information System
7 35 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (3.06%) Client/Server
9 20 (2.45%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (2.21%) Mobile App
11 18 (2.21%) Virtual Team
12 17 (2.08%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.84%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.72%) PropTech
15 13 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
16 12 (1.47%) Driving Licence
17 11 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
18 10 (1.23%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.17%) Android
2 28 (3.43%) Apple iOS
3 23 (2.82%) Linux
4 17 (2.08%) Windows
5 8 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.37%) Debian
7 3 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (37.13%) Agile
2 171 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
3 166 (20.34%) DevOps
4 142 (17.40%) CI/CD
5 139 (17.03%) Software Engineering
6 138 (16.91%) Test Automation
7 132 (16.18%) Project Management
8 106 (12.99%) Test Strategy
9 100 (12.25%) Mentoring
10 93 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (11.40%) Scrum
11 91 (11.15%) Fintech
12 87 (10.66%) Full Stack Development
13 86 (10.54%) TDD
14 85 (10.42%) Computer Science
15 78 (9.56%) API Testing
16 76 (9.31%) Project Delivery
17 69 (8.46%) BDD
18 63 (7.72%) Roadmaps
19 60 (7.35%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 138 (16.91%) C#
2 132 (16.18%) SQL
3 130 (15.93%) Python
4 125 (15.32%) Java
4 125 (15.32%) JavaScript
5 79 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.06%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.21%) Scala
8 14 (1.72%) PL/1
9 13 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.47%) PHP
11 10 (1.23%) Ruby
11 10 (1.23%) Swift
12 7 (0.86%) Go
13 6 (0.74%) Dart
13 6 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.74%) Perl
13 6 (0.74%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.61%) R
15 4 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 195 (23.90%) Degree
2 58 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 26 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 23 (2.82%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.33%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.84%) DBS Check
7 15 (1.84%) ISTQB
7 15 (1.84%) PMP
8 10 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (1.10%) CREST Certified
9 9 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 8 (0.98%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.86%) NVQ Level 3
12 6 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.61%) CCNA
13 5 (0.61%) CCNP
13 5 (0.61%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.43%) Accessibility
2 21 (2.57%) Good Clinical Practice
3 20 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.59%) GMP
4 13 (1.59%) PMO
5 9 (1.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 9 (1.10%) CDISC
5 9 (1.10%) GDPR
6 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.74%) NIST
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
9 4 (0.49%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.37%) COBIT
10 3 (0.37%) GRC
10 3 (0.37%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) PMBOK
11 2 (0.25%) UCITS
System Software
1 51 (6.25%) Docker
2 11 (1.35%) Firmware
3 10 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.98%) HDFS
6 2 (0.25%) Varnish
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.57%) Terraform
3 10 (1.23%) Ansible
4 7 (0.86%) Puppet
5 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.37%) Kibana
6 3 (0.37%) Packer
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 137 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.13%) Google
3 22 (2.70%) SAP
4 15 (1.84%) Databricks
5 12 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.35%) Oracle
7 10 (1.23%) Aderant
7 10 (1.23%) Adobe
8 9 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.98%) IBM
9 8 (0.98%) Marketo
9 8 (0.98%) QAD
10 7 (0.86%) CheckPoint
11 6 (0.74%) Cognos
11 6 (0.74%) IFS
12 5 (0.61%) Cisco
12 5 (0.61%) Meraki
12 5 (0.61%) UiPath
13 4 (0.49%) Adyen
13 4 (0.49%) OpenAI