QA Jobs in Merseyside

Quality Assurance (QA)
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 21 55
Rank change year-on-year -30 +34 -13
Permanent jobs citing QA 45 115 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.34% 10.80% 4.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.13% 62.50% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 22 6 35
10th Percentile £24,400 - -
25th Percentile £25,875 £22,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £30,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% -13.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,125 £47,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £55,055
North West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,333
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.45% +1.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 213 184 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 15.82% 17.28% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 145 60 138
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,188 £31,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £49,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £53,750 £67,875
North West median annual salary £47,842 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -4.32% +1.01% +4.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Merseyside

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Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for QA in Merseyside

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Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Merseyside over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Merseyside

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Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 24 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
Liverpool -28 38 £48,500 +120.45% 9
Wirral - 3 £26,500 -
Birkenhead - 2 £22,000 -
Bootle - 1 - - 2
Prescot - 1 £30,000 -
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North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) SaaS
2 3 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (4.44%) Serverless
4 1 (2.22%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
3 2 (4.44%) JDeveloper
4 1 (2.22%) Appium
4 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) Selenium
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (40.00%) Finance
2 15 (33.33%) Legal
3 11 (24.44%) Manufacturing
4 10 (22.22%) Law
5 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
9 2 (4.44%) Retail
10 1 (2.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Project Manager
2 8 (17.78%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) QA Specialist
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Graduate
6 3 (6.67%) Help Desk Adviser
6 3 (6.67%) Help Desk Support
6 3 (6.67%) Junior
6 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (4.44%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Junior C# Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) RESTful
2 3 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (6.67%) CSS
2 3 (6.67%) JSON
2 3 (6.67%) XML
3 2 (4.44%) EJB
3 2 (4.44%) JavaBeans
3 2 (4.44%) Node.js
3 2 (4.44%) React
3 2 (4.44%) Spring
3 2 (4.44%) Vue
4 1 (2.22%) CSS3
4 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.22%) HTML
4 1 (2.22%) HTML5
4 1 (2.22%) REST
4 1 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) e-Health
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.44%) Housing Association
3 2 (4.44%) iPad
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.89%) Roadmaps
3 12 (26.67%) Agile
4 11 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (24.44%) Lean Six Sigma
4 11 (24.44%) Migration
4 11 (24.44%) Six Sigma
5 10 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 10 (22.22%) Project Governance
6 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (15.56%) Coaching
7 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
7 7 (15.56%) QMS
8 6 (13.33%) Clean Code
8 6 (13.33%) Code Quality
8 6 (13.33%) Customer Service
8 6 (13.33%) Project Delivery
9 5 (11.11%) Logistics
9 5 (11.11%) SDLC
10 4 (8.89%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) C#
5 3 (6.67%) R
5 3 (6.67%) Ruby
6 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 2 (4.44%) Go
6 2 (4.44%) Perl
6 2 (4.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (24.44%) PMO
2 4 (8.89%) GMP
3 1 (2.22%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (2.22%) Aderant
3 1 (2.22%) Ceridian
3 1 (2.22%) iManage