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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 85 40
Rank change year-on-year +10 -45 +10
Permanent jobs citing QA 529 806 2,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.09% 3.42% 6.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.34% 24.05% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 382 629 1,286
10th Percentile £29,069 £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 £103,500 £112,500 £106,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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 2,088 3,352 5,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.15% 14.21% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 2,471 3,637
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,650 £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%

QA
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

QA
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA in London

QA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 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 -14 90 £75,000 - 80
West London +17 17 £30,000 -64.71% 52
South London -29 6 £58,322 +16.64% 17
North London -2 4 £65,000 +62.50% 4
East London -27 3 £100,000 +53.85% 20
QA
England

QA
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 10 (1.89%) Confluence
2 8 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.13%) CMS
4 5 (0.95%) Liferay
4 5 (0.95%) nginx
5 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) Appian
7 2 (0.38%) 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 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.95%) Trello
5 4 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.38%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 9 (1.70%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.57%) CA PPM
4 3 (0.57%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.38%) 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
1 109 (20.60%) Azure
2 70 (13.23%) AWS
3 39 (7.37%) GCP
4 34 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (5.86%) GitHub
6 26 (4.91%) Serverless
7 21 (3.97%) Power Platform
8 20 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (2.08%) SaaS
12 10 (1.89%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.32%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.27%) Firewall
1 12 (2.27%) Multicast
2 6 (1.13%) VLAN
3 4 (0.76%) DNS
3 4 (0.76%) Network Security
4 3 (0.57%) BGP
4 3 (0.57%) HSRP
4 3 (0.57%) HTTP
4 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.57%) WAN
4 3 (0.57%) Wireless
5 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) eduroam
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) Intranet
6 1 (0.19%) SSH
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) Value-Added Service
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (4.16%) Relational Database
3 20 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.40%) MySQL
5 18 (3.40%) Power BI
6 15 (2.84%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.89%) RDBMS
10 9 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.70%) Tableau
11 7 (1.32%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.95%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.76%) Big Data
13 4 (0.76%) Metadata
13 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.57%) OLTP
14 3 (0.57%) Redis
14 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (8.70%) JIRA
2 45 (8.51%) Git
3 42 (7.94%) Selenium
4 24 (4.54%) Postman
5 21 (3.97%) Jenkins
6 16 (3.02%) GitLab
7 14 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.27%) Gradle
8 12 (2.27%) JMeter
8 12 (2.27%) SoapUI
8 12 (2.27%) SpecFlow
9 11 (2.08%) Appium
10 9 (1.70%) JUnit
10 9 (1.70%) TestNG
11 7 (1.32%) Maven
11 7 (1.32%) MSTest
11 7 (1.32%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.13%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.13%) Mocha
13 5 (0.95%) Moq
General
1 218 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 160 (30.25%) Finance
3 108 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.02%) Manufacturing
5 52 (9.83%) Marketing
6 38 (7.18%) Banking
7 35 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (6.43%) Legal
9 29 (5.48%) Games
10 28 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (5.29%) Publishing
11 27 (5.10%) Public Sector
12 25 (4.73%) Retail
13 22 (4.16%) Telecoms
14 20 (3.78%) Health Technology
15 19 (3.59%) Electronics
16 17 (3.21%) Tech for Good
17 14 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (2.27%) Law
19 11 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (23.25%) Senior
2 100 (18.90%) Developer
3 58 (10.96%) Senior Developer
4 53 (10.02%) Lead
5 45 (8.51%) Analyst
6 44 (8.32%) QA Engineer
7 29 (5.48%) QA Officer
8 24 (4.54%) Consultant
8 24 (4.54%) Project Manager
9 23 (4.35%) Support Manager
10 21 (3.97%) Senior Manager
11 20 (3.78%) Business Analyst
11 20 (3.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 20 (3.78%) Software Engineer
12 19 (3.59%) Software Developer
13 18 (3.40%) Python Developer
13 18 (3.40%) QA Leader
13 18 (3.40%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 17 (3.21%) Android Developer
14 17 (3.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.56%) React
2 30 (5.67%) .NET
3 29 (5.48%) RESTful
4 28 (5.29%) REST
5 24 (4.54%) pytest
5 24 (4.54%) Swagger
6 23 (4.35%) Playwright
7 22 (4.16%) CSS
7 22 (4.16%) HTML
8 17 (3.21%) Node.js
9 16 (3.02%) FIX Protocol
10 14 (2.65%) Next.js
11 13 (2.46%) Web Services
12 11 (2.08%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 11 (2.08%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.70%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.70%) JSON
14 8 (1.51%) OAuth
14 8 (1.51%) Spring
14 8 (1.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.73%) Mobile Games
1 25 (4.73%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.40%) Algorithms
3 17 (3.21%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.02%) Fixed Income
4 16 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.02%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.27%) Derivative
5 12 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.08%) Educational Technology
6 11 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.70%) Equities
9 8 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 8 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.51%) Digital Media
9 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.75%) Linux
2 27 (5.10%) Android
3 25 (4.73%) Apple iOS
4 15 (2.84%) Windows
5 9 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.32%) CentOS
7 3 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.57%) Rocky
8 2 (0.38%) Unix
8 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (32.14%) Agile
2 144 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (21.74%) Test Automation
4 111 (20.98%) DevOps
5 104 (19.66%) Project Management
6 93 (17.58%) CI/CD
7 76 (14.37%) Mentoring
8 73 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (11.15%) Software Testing
10 56 (10.59%) Computer Science
11 55 (10.40%) Scrum
12 48 (9.07%) Project Delivery
12 48 (9.07%) Software Engineering
13 46 (8.70%) Test Scripting
14 39 (7.37%) Process Improvement
14 39 (7.37%) Quality Management
15 38 (7.18%) ITIL
15 38 (7.18%) Roadmaps
16 37 (6.99%) Change Management
17 36 (6.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 108 (20.42%) Python
2 91 (17.20%) SQL
3 59 (11.15%) Java
4 54 (10.21%) JavaScript
5 53 (10.02%) C#
6 40 (7.56%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.78%) Swift
8 18 (3.40%) Kotlin
9 17 (3.21%) C++
9 17 (3.21%) Objective-C
10 11 (2.08%) Bash
11 9 (1.70%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.13%) PHP
13 3 (0.57%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.57%) Go
13 3 (0.57%) Ruby
13 3 (0.57%) Scala
13 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 117 (22.12%) Degree
2 37 (6.99%) PMI Certification
3 36 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (6.43%) PMP
5 29 (5.48%) ISTQB
6 23 (4.35%) CISSP
7 13 (2.46%) DBS Check
8 11 (2.08%) SC Cleared
8 11 (2.08%) Security Cleared
9 10 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.32%) ISEB
11 6 (1.13%) CCNP
11 6 (1.13%) CCSAS
12 5 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.95%) CSPO
12 5 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.45%) GMP
2 21 (3.97%) GDPR
3 18 (3.40%) PMO
4 17 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (1.89%) Software Quality Assurance
7 9 (1.70%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.13%) Good Clinical Practice
9 4 (0.76%) CDISC
9 4 (0.76%) P3O
9 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.76%) SLA
10 3 (0.57%) NCSC
11 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.19%) DICOM
12 1 (0.19%) HL7
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (7.56%) Docker
2 6 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.73%) Terraform
3 13 (2.46%) Ansible
4 11 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.70%) Grafana
6 8 (1.51%) Argo
7 7 (1.32%) Nagios
8 3 (0.57%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.38%) SCCM
10 1 (0.19%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.19%) logstash
10 1 (0.19%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.19%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (7.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.91%) Google
3 25 (4.73%) SAP
4 13 (2.46%) Adobe
5 12 (2.27%) New Relic
6 9 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.51%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.32%) Databricks
9 6 (1.13%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.76%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.76%) IBM
10 4 (0.76%) iManage
10 4 (0.76%) Intapp
10 4 (0.76%) JD Edwards
10 4 (0.76%) Marketo
10 4 (0.76%) Planview
10 4 (0.76%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.76%) Splunk
11 3 (0.57%) Pegasus
11 3 (0.57%) VMware