Software Quality Assurance Job Trends in London

Software Quality Assurance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 368 492
Rank change year-on-year -19 +124 +113
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 19 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.092% 0.090% 0.030%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.69% 0.53% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19 9 7
10th Percentile - - £55,500
25th Percentile - £47,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £57,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £82,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +3.85% +39.60%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

Software Quality Assurance 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 2,748 2,088 3,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.26% 17.01% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,822 1,268 2,457
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £36,250
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 £112,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Software Quality Assurance job vacancy trend in London

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Software Quality Assurance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Quality Assurance in London

Software Quality Assurance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Quality Assurance within the London region over the 6 months to 21 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
West London - 8 £30,000 -
East London - 2 £30,000 -
Software Quality Assurance
England

Software Quality Assurance
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:

Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (15.79%) GitHub
1 3 (15.79%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Tester
2 11 (57.89%) Software Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) ETL Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 12 (63.16%) Software Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
3 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (21.05%) System Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Translating Business Requirements
3 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) ERP
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.26%) Agile
5 1 (5.26%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Data Validation
5 1 (5.26%) ETL
5 1 (5.26%) Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Test Management
5 1 (5.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft