QA Jobs in Milton Keynes

Quality Assurance (QA)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 -23
Permanent jobs citing QA 3 41 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 1.30% 3.91% 3.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.50% 29.71% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 0 24 15
10th Percentile - £33,375 £31,250
25th Percentile - £43,750 £39,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £48,750 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.80% -18.14%
75th Percentile - £56,500 £56,875
90th Percentile - £58,750 £62,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £42,894
% change year-on-year +15.79% +10.74% -22.01%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 40 138 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 17.32% 13.16% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 24 86 81
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £33,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £90,813 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £71,250 £68,750
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £59,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +32.22% -5.26% -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Milton Keynes

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Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Salary trend for QA in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Robot Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Redux
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Solace