QA Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Quality Assurance (QA)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 56 4
Rank change year-on-year +36 -52 +29
Permanent jobs citing QA 24 31 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.77% 2.94% 24.81%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.92% 16.40% 82.68%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 30
10th Percentile £43,125 - £41,475
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,988 £52,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £72,500 £88,750
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £41,774 £62,500
% change year-on-year +31.66% -33.16% +38.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 65 189 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.04% 17.93% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 49 125 66
10th Percentile £47,375 £32,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +57.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £77,500 £88,750
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.90% -4.55% +42.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for QA in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) ArcGIS
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Slack
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Bitrise
5 1 (4.17%) Firebase
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.17%) HBase
2 1 (4.17%) Impala
2 1 (4.17%) Neo4j
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (4.17%) QlikView
2 1 (4.17%) Spark SQL
2 1 (4.17%) SQLite
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Selenium
2 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Maven
2 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (8.33%) NUnit
3 2 (8.33%) Postman
3 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.17%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Games
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Advertising
5 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Senior
1 8 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) PHP Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) DBA
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) QA Officer
5 1 (4.17%) Accounts Assistant
5 1 (4.17%) Android Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
1 5 (20.83%) REST
2 4 (16.67%) CSS
2 4 (16.67%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) React
2 4 (16.67%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.50%) HTML
3 3 (12.50%) JPA
3 3 (12.50%) Redux
4 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.33%) CSS3
4 2 (8.33%) HTML5
4 2 (8.33%) Jest
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Sass
5 1 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.17%) Plotly
5 1 (4.17%) Shiny
5 1 (4.17%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) ASTM
2 2 (8.33%) NHS
2 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 12 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 12 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (45.83%) Test Automation
4 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (33.33%) DevOps
7 5 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (16.67%) API Testing
8 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
8 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.67%) Microservices
8 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.67%) TDD
8 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
8 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (12.50%) Project Management
9 3 (12.50%) Scrum
9 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) PHP
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) Python
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.17%) PROC SQL
6 1 (4.17%) R
6 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) GMP
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Flume
2 1 (4.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Kibana
2 1 (4.17%) logstash
2 1 (4.17%) Oozie
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) Solace
2 2 (8.33%) Adobe
2 2 (8.33%) Nimble Storage
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Informatica
3 1 (4.17%) JD Edwards
3 1 (4.17%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
94 QA jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne