QA Jobs in Merseyside

Quality Assurance (QA)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 53 20
Rank change year-on-year +19 -33 +37
Permanent jobs citing QA 24 45 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.35% 3.41% 10.82%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.80% 21.03% 62.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4 22 6
10th Percentile - £24,400 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £25,875 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £39,000 £30,250
Median % change year-on-year +62.82% +28.93% -12.32%
75th Percentile £88,438 £52,500 £47,125
90th Percentile £101,375 £68,750 £53,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +3.45%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 71 214 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 15.81% 16.20% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 45 146 60
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £50,000 £77,500 £49,813
90th Percentile £60,150 £90,000 £53,750
North West median annual salary £47,683 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.66% -4.00% +1.01%

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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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
Liverpool +22 15 £63,500 +30.93% 55
Prescot +7 3 - -
St Helens - 3 - -
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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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) IBM Domino
2 3 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.17%) Google Ads
4 1 (4.17%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Cucumber
2 9 (37.50%) Bitbucket
2 9 (37.50%) GitLab
2 9 (37.50%) JIRA
2 9 (37.50%) Maven
2 9 (37.50%) Selenium
2 9 (37.50%) SonarQube
2 9 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.17%) ESLint
3 1 (4.17%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.17%) Storybook
3 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (41.67%) Manufacturing
3 9 (37.50%) Banking
4 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
5 6 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 6 (25.00%) Retail
6 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) QA Manager
2 8 (33.33%) Quality Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) QA Officer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) React
2 9 (37.50%) CSS
2 9 (37.50%) HTML
2 9 (37.50%) JPA
2 9 (37.50%) Kafka
2 9 (37.50%) Redux
2 9 (37.50%) Spring
2 9 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 7 (29.17%) Jest
3 7 (29.17%) REST
4 6 (25.00%) CSS3
4 6 (25.00%) HTML5
4 6 (25.00%) RESTful
4 6 (25.00%) Sass
5 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 2 (8.33%) .NET
7 1 (4.17%) JSON
7 1 (4.17%) Next.js
7 1 (4.17%) OAuth
7 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 9 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (41.67%) Front End Development
2 10 (41.67%) Microservices
2 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 9 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) SDLC
3 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 8 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
4 8 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
4 8 (33.33%) Logistics
4 8 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 7 (29.17%) User Experience
6 6 (25.00%) Migration
6 6 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 9 (37.50%) Java
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) GMP
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Solace
2 1 (4.17%) Google