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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing QA 461 486 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.97% 6.40% 5.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.01% 36.49% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 261 236 388
10th Percentile £29,250 £22,625 £27,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,188 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.24% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

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 1,646 1,332 2,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.17% 17.54% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 980 796 1,325
10th Percentile £27,300 £27,760 £29,252
25th Percentile £30,563 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +10.00% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £76,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
West Midlands -15 265 £56,250 +2.27% 55
East Midlands -8 196 £45,000 -10.00% 49
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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 19 (4.12%) IIS
2 4 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.65%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.65%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.43%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (20.39%) Azure
2 48 (10.41%) AWS
3 39 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (4.12%) SaaS
5 11 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (2.39%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.17%) GCP
7 7 (1.52%) Azure Pipelines
7 7 (1.52%) Azure Stack
7 7 (1.52%) Serverless
8 6 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.30%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.30%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (1.08%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.87%) PaaS
10 4 (0.87%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.77%) 3GPP
2 14 (3.04%) Firewall
3 7 (1.52%) WAN
4 6 (1.30%) VLAN
5 5 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (1.08%) DHCP
5 5 (1.08%) DNS
5 5 (1.08%) NetScaler
5 5 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.87%) VoIP
6 4 (0.87%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.43%) 5G
8 2 (0.43%) Broadband
8 2 (0.43%) HTTP
8 2 (0.43%) LAN
8 2 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.43%) Wireless
9 1 (0.22%) FlexRay
9 1 (0.22%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.98%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.39%) Power BI
4 10 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (1.74%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.74%) Looker
5 8 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.30%) Power Query
6 6 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.87%) Pentaho
8 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.65%) MySQL
10 2 (0.43%) Metadata
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.22%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 27 (5.86%) Git
2 11 (2.39%) Jasmine
2 11 (2.39%) Karma Test Runner
3 10 (2.17%) JIRA
4 8 (1.74%) Postman
5 6 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.30%) Selenium
5 6 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.08%) MSTest
7 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.65%) gulp
8 3 (0.65%) NUnit
8 3 (0.65%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.43%) JMeter
9 2 (0.43%) TestRail
9 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.22%) TestComplete
General
1 92 (19.96%) Retail
2 84 (18.22%) Legal
3 61 (13.23%) Social Skills
4 60 (13.02%) Manufacturing
5 46 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (9.54%) Finance
7 29 (6.29%) Telecoms
8 24 (5.21%) Marketing
9 17 (3.69%) Agriculture
9 17 (3.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.39%) Police
11 10 (2.17%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.17%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.74%) Billing
12 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.87%) Banking
15 4 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 114 (24.73%) Analyst
2 80 (17.35%) Lead
3 76 (16.49%) Business Analyst
4 57 (12.36%) Developer
5 50 (10.85%) QA Manager
6 42 (9.11%) Team Leader
7 36 (7.81%) Lead Business Analyst
8 34 (7.38%) Business Analyst Team Leader
9 30 (6.51%) Quality Manager
10 29 (6.29%) Senior
11 21 (4.56%) Functional Analyst
12 18 (3.90%) C# Developer
13 15 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.25%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.04%) Engineering Manager
15 12 (2.60%) QA Officer
16 11 (2.39%) Linux Engineer
16 11 (2.39%) QA Specialist
16 11 (2.39%) Software Developer
17 10 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (11.50%) .NET
2 23 (4.99%) React
2 23 (4.99%) XML
3 22 (4.77%) ASP.NET
4 18 (3.90%) .NET Core
5 17 (3.69%) JSON
6 15 (3.25%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.25%) SOAP
7 14 (3.04%) Sass
8 13 (2.82%) Web Services
9 12 (2.60%) REST
9 12 (2.60%) XML Schema
10 11 (2.39%) CSS
10 11 (2.39%) HTML
10 11 (2.39%) RxJS
11 10 (2.17%) Blazor
11 10 (2.17%) Node.js
12 6 (1.30%) Next.js
12 6 (1.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 5 (1.08%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.42%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.12%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 9 (1.95%) Mobile App
5 8 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.87%) Driving Licence
7 4 (0.87%) Online Banking
7 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (0.65%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.65%) Digital Media
8 3 (0.65%) IoT
8 3 (0.65%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.43%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.43%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.43%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.43%) Online Games
9 2 (0.43%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.21%) Linux
2 18 (3.90%) Windows
3 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.87%) VMS
5 3 (0.65%) Android
5 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (22.13%) Agile
1 102 (22.13%) Software Testing
2 101 (21.91%) Coaching
3 95 (20.61%) ITIL
4 91 (19.74%) SDLC
5 81 (17.57%) Process Improvement
6 79 (17.14%) Logistics
7 78 (16.92%) DevOps
8 76 (16.49%) Business Analysis
8 76 (16.49%) Requirements Analysis
8 76 (16.49%) Telematics
9 75 (16.27%) Business Process Analysis
9 75 (16.27%) Business Process Improvement
9 75 (16.27%) Disaster Recovery
9 75 (16.27%) Feasibility Study
9 75 (16.27%) GAP Analysis
9 75 (16.27%) Impact Assessments
9 75 (16.27%) Resource Allocation
9 75 (16.27%) Stakeholder Analysis
10 65 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.85%) C#
2 43 (9.33%) SQL
3 38 (8.24%) JavaScript
4 18 (3.90%) TypeScript
5 16 (3.47%) VB
6 12 (2.60%) T-SQL
7 11 (2.39%) Python
7 11 (2.39%) VB.NET
7 11 (2.39%) VB6
8 6 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.08%) VBA
10 4 (0.87%) C
10 4 (0.87%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.87%) Java
10 4 (0.87%) PHP
10 4 (0.87%) R
11 3 (0.65%) C++
11 3 (0.65%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 159 (34.49%) Degree
2 15 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.82%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.30%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.08%) CCNA
6 5 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.08%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.08%) PMP
6 5 (1.08%) RHCSA
6 5 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.65%) CSPO
8 3 (0.65%) IIBA
9 2 (0.43%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.43%) HNC
10 1 (0.22%) HND
10 1 (0.22%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.77%) NCSC
2 11 (2.39%) GMP
3 5 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 4 (0.87%) SLA
5 3 (0.65%) GRC
5 3 (0.65%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.43%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.22%) MISRA
7 1 (0.22%) TickIT
System Software
1 19 (4.12%) Docker
2 7 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.08%) vSphere
3 5 (1.08%) XenDesktop
4 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.17%) Ansible
2 10 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (0.87%) Terraform
5 1 (0.22%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Kibana
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 55 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.12%) ServiceNow
3 10 (2.17%) Cisco
3 10 (2.17%) Google
4 7 (1.52%) Citrix
4 7 (1.52%) VMware
5 6 (1.30%) SAP
6 5 (1.08%) Avaya
6 5 (1.08%) Databricks
6 5 (1.08%) Dell
6 5 (1.08%) EMC
6 5 (1.08%) Oracle
6 5 (1.08%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.08%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.08%) Zscaler
7 4 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.65%) NEC
8 3 (0.65%) Siemens
8 3 (0.65%) SYSPRO
8 3 (0.65%) Xamarin