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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 40 60
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 -33
Permanent jobs citing QA 8 36 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 3.35% 4.05% 3.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.51% 33.33% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 22 16
10th Percentile - £41,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £43,750 £40,898
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £50,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +13.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £34,375 £58,438 £54,688
90th Percentile £44,500 £67,061 £61,875
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £27,500 £50,000 £42,894
% change year-on-year -45.00% +16.57% -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 39 108 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 16.32% 12.16% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 23 71 82
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,125 £54,688
90th Percentile £77,150 £71,250 £68,750
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -9.52%

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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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Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Salary histogram 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Junior
1 4 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Junior QA Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) QA Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) JPA
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) Redux
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Time Management
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) System Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Test Management
6 1 (12.50%) Logistics
6 1 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Solace