QA Jobs in the Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 53 12
Rank change year-on-year -34 -41 +47
Permanent jobs citing QA 218 486 1,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.20% 3.83% 12.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.51% 27.27% 46.63%
Number of salaries quoted 99 365 272
10th Percentile £39,774 £30,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £49,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.57% -4.39% +10.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £79,750 £78,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,178 1,782 2,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.29% 14.04% 25.76%
Number of salaries quoted 538 1,279 895
10th Percentile £28,822 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,685 £31,863 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for QA in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
East Midlands -16 111 £55,000 +15.79% 482
West Midlands -35 107 £53,688 -0.12% 652
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 51 (23.39%) Confluence
2 9 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.46%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.46%) WinCC
Applications
1 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (5.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (38.07%) Azure
2 76 (34.86%) AWS
3 48 (22.02%) GCP
4 33 (15.14%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.17%) Power Automate
5 20 (9.17%) PowerApps
6 15 (6.88%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.21%) SaaS
9 5 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.38%) Datadog
11 3 (1.38%) Figma
12 1 (0.46%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.46%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.46%) Sauce Labs
12 1 (0.46%) Serverless
12 1 (0.46%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.46%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.34%) TCP/IP
2 15 (6.88%) VPN
3 5 (2.29%) VLAN
4 4 (1.83%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.83%) WAN
5 1 (0.46%) Firewall
5 1 (0.46%) LTE
5 1 (0.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (30.73%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.47%) Power BI
3 9 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.75%) Metadata
4 6 (2.75%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (2.29%) MySQL
6 3 (1.38%) Tableau
7 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.46%) DataStage
8 1 (0.46%) DB2
8 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 78 (35.78%) Cucumber
2 77 (35.32%) Selenium
3 75 (34.40%) JIRA
4 69 (31.65%) GitLab
5 63 (28.90%) Bitbucket
5 63 (28.90%) Maven
5 63 (28.90%) SonarQube
5 63 (28.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (6.88%) Robot Framework
7 10 (4.59%) Postman
8 6 (2.75%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.83%) Appium
9 4 (1.83%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.83%) Git
9 4 (1.83%) Jenkins
10 3 (1.38%) JMeter
10 3 (1.38%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.92%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.92%) NUnit
11 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (46.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 76 (34.86%) Finance
3 64 (29.36%) Banking
4 61 (27.98%) Social Skills
5 22 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.09%) Retail
6 20 (9.17%) Manufacturing
7 18 (8.26%) Telecoms
8 16 (7.34%) Corporate Banking
8 16 (7.34%) Investment Banking
9 14 (6.42%) Police
10 8 (3.67%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.21%) Automotive
11 7 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.29%) Law
14 2 (0.92%) Billing
14 2 (0.92%) Games
14 2 (0.92%) Legal
14 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (29.82%) Software Engineer
2 34 (15.60%) Developer
3 31 (14.22%) Analyst
4 27 (12.39%) Senior
5 18 (8.26%) Lead
6 17 (7.80%) Test Engineer
7 16 (7.34%) Power Platform Developer
8 15 (6.88%) Test Automation Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Test Analyst
10 9 (4.13%) CRM Developer
10 9 (4.13%) Quality Analyst
11 8 (3.67%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
11 8 (3.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 8 (3.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 8 (3.67%) QA Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) QA Analyst
12 7 (3.21%) Tester
13 6 (2.75%) Business Analyst
14 5 (2.29%) Data Analyst
14 5 (2.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (32.11%) React
2 65 (29.82%) HTML
2 65 (29.82%) Redux
3 64 (29.36%) CSS
3 64 (29.36%) Spring
3 64 (29.36%) Spring Boot
4 63 (28.90%) JPA
4 63 (28.90%) Kafka
5 47 (21.56%) Hibernate
6 32 (14.68%) .NET
7 18 (8.26%) Jest
8 17 (7.80%) REST
8 17 (7.80%) RESTful
9 16 (7.34%) CSS3
9 16 (7.34%) HTML5
9 16 (7.34%) Sass
10 10 (4.59%) Playwright
11 4 (1.83%) Swagger
12 3 (1.38%) .NET Core
12 3 (1.38%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 67 (30.73%) Product Ownership
2 63 (28.90%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (6.88%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.05%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.38%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.46%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.46%) IoT
10 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.46%) NHS
10 1 (0.46%) Robotics
10 1 (0.46%) SCADA
10 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.26%) Linux
2 17 (7.80%) Windows
3 4 (1.83%) Android
3 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (46.33%) Test Automation
2 97 (44.50%) Agile
3 88 (40.37%) DevOps
4 78 (35.78%) SDLC
5 74 (33.94%) Software Engineering
6 73 (33.49%) CI/CD
7 68 (31.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 64 (29.36%) Containerisation
8 64 (29.36%) Front End Development
8 64 (29.36%) Performance Optimisation
9 63 (28.90%) Microservices
10 62 (28.44%) Mentoring
11 61 (27.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (24.31%) TDD
13 50 (22.94%) Clean Code
14 47 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (14.22%) User Experience
16 26 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
17 24 (11.01%) Test Management
18 23 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (40.83%) JavaScript
2 79 (36.24%) Java
2 79 (36.24%) SQL
3 40 (18.35%) C#
4 26 (11.93%) TypeScript
5 21 (9.63%) Python
6 15 (6.88%) Bash
6 15 (6.88%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.83%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.38%) PHP
9 2 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (17.43%) Degree
2 10 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.21%) ISTQB
4 4 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (1.83%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.92%) PMP
7 1 (0.46%) CBAP
7 1 (0.46%) CCNP
7 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.46%) ISEB
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.46%) NVQ Level 4
7 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.80%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (2.75%) GDPR
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (1.38%) PMO
6 2 (0.92%) GMP
7 1 (0.46%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) NCSC
7 1 (0.46%) NIST
7 1 (0.46%) P3O
System Software
1 67 (30.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.38%) LXC
3 2 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (29.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (28.90%) Solace
2 22 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.13%) SAP
4 4 (1.83%) Avaya
4 4 (1.83%) Cisco
4 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
4 4 (1.83%) Zscaler
5 3 (1.38%) Oracle
6 1 (0.46%) Google
6 1 (0.46%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.46%) IBM
6 1 (0.46%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.46%) Siemens
6 1 (0.46%) Snow
6 1 (0.46%) UiPath