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 20 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 58 13
Rank change year-on-year -61 -45 +47
Permanent jobs citing QA 148 379 1,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.30% 3.73% 13.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.35% 25.69% 49.68%
Number of salaries quoted 99 311 313
10th Percentile £37,887 £31,114 £33,150
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% -9.52% +13.92%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £81,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

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 1,198 1,475 2,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.65% 14.52% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 532 1,138 977
10th Percentile £28,822 £25,750 £29,550
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,251 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,063 £63,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,411 £75,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% +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 20 March 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 20 March 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
West Midlands -67 79 £55,000 +10.00% 59
East Midlands -8 69 £47,500 +5.56% 56
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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 7 (4.73%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.03%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.57%) Azure
2 18 (12.16%) Power Platform
3 16 (10.81%) SaaS
4 12 (8.11%) AWS
4 12 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.03%) Datadog
6 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.03%) Figma
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.03%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.35%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.68%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (0.68%) Serverless
8 1 (0.68%) SonarCloud
8 1 (0.68%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) WAN
2 4 (2.70%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.70%) VLAN
2 4 (2.70%) Wireless
3 2 (1.35%) Broadband
3 2 (1.35%) VoIP
3 2 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.35%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.68%) BGP
4 1 (0.68%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.68%) Firewall
4 1 (0.68%) Internet
4 1 (0.68%) LTE
4 1 (0.68%) MPLS
4 1 (0.68%) VPLS
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.49%) Power BI
2 15 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.43%) Metadata
3 11 (7.43%) Metadata Repository
4 5 (3.38%) MySQL
4 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.35%) Power Query
5 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.68%) DataStage
6 1 (0.68%) DB2
6 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.68%) QualityStage
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (14.86%) Selenium
2 20 (13.51%) Postman
3 14 (9.46%) JIRA
4 7 (4.73%) GitLab
5 6 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.05%) WebDriver
6 5 (3.38%) Git
7 4 (2.70%) Appium
7 4 (2.70%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.70%) Subversion
8 3 (2.03%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.03%) JMeter
8 3 (2.03%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.03%) TortoiseSVN
9 2 (1.35%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.35%) Metasploit
9 2 (1.35%) NUnit
9 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.68%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 58 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.19%) Manufacturing
3 19 (12.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.14%) Finance
6 14 (9.46%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (6.76%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.73%) Retail
9 6 (4.05%) Automotive
9 6 (4.05%) Games
9 6 (4.05%) Police
10 5 (3.38%) Billing
11 4 (2.70%) Marketing
11 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.03%) Law
12 3 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.35%) Back Office
13 2 (1.35%) Legal
13 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (22.30%) Senior
2 28 (18.92%) Analyst
3 21 (14.19%) Lead
4 17 (11.49%) Developer
5 16 (10.81%) QA Engineer
6 13 (8.78%) Tester
7 9 (6.08%) Test Analyst
8 6 (4.05%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.05%) QA Analyst
8 6 (4.05%) QA Leader
8 6 (4.05%) Quality Analyst
8 6 (4.05%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.38%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.38%) Network Engineer
9 5 (3.38%) Software Tester
9 5 (3.38%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (2.70%) Lead Developer
10 4 (2.70%) Project Leader
10 4 (2.70%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.51%) .NET
2 8 (5.41%) Playwright
3 5 (3.38%) JSON
4 4 (2.70%) React
4 4 (2.70%) Swagger
5 3 (2.03%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.03%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.03%) Entity Framework
5 3 (2.03%) Node.js
6 2 (1.35%) CSS
6 2 (1.35%) HTML
6 2 (1.35%) REST
6 2 (1.35%) RESTful
7 1 (0.68%) ADO
7 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.68%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.68%) Spring
7 1 (0.68%) Symfony
7 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.49%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.11%) Mobile App
3 10 (6.76%) Virtual Team
4 8 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.70%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.03%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.03%) IoT
6 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.35%) Blog
7 2 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.35%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.35%) Robotics
8 1 (0.68%) CMDB
8 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.70%) Android
2 4 (2.70%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.35%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.46%) Agile
2 41 (27.70%) Mentoring
3 36 (24.32%) Test Automation
4 35 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (16.22%) Software Testing
6 22 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (14.19%) Manual Testing
8 20 (13.51%) Project Management
9 19 (12.84%) DevOps
10 18 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (11.49%) Collaborative Working
12 16 (10.81%) API Testing
13 15 (10.14%) CAD
13 15 (10.14%) Project Delivery
13 15 (10.14%) Scrum
14 14 (9.46%) Data Governance
14 14 (9.46%) Design for Manufacturing
14 14 (9.46%) SDLC
14 14 (9.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.62%) C#
2 20 (13.51%) SQL
3 10 (6.76%) Java
4 9 (6.08%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.41%) Python
6 7 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.38%) PHP
8 4 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.35%) R
9 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) Ruby
10 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (18.24%) Degree
2 8 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.38%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.03%) PMP
6 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.35%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.35%) Cyber Scheme
6 2 (1.35%) GIAC
6 2 (1.35%) GPEN
6 2 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.35%) OSCP
6 2 (1.35%) OSWP
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) CBAP
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (7.43%) GDPR
3 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.35%) GMP
4 2 (1.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (4.05%) Docker
2 3 (2.03%) LXC
3 2 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.03%) Terraform
2 2 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.35%) Nessus
2 2 (1.35%) Nmap
3 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 20 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.41%) SAP
3 5 (3.38%) Cisco
3 5 (3.38%) SolarWinds
4 4 (2.70%) Avaya
4 4 (2.70%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.68%) F5
5 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.68%) IBM
5 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle
5 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.68%) Pega
5 1 (0.68%) Remedy
5 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.68%) UiPath