QA Jobs in the North East

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 65 6
Rank change year-on-year +52 -59 +32
Permanent jobs citing QA 89 56 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 8.84% 2.67% 21.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 58.17% 16.14% 76.11%
Number of salaries quoted 19 31 36
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £40,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £59,916 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 153 347 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 15.19% 16.56% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 65 245 105
10th Percentile £28,500 £24,960 £31,350
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,504 £43,200 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.06% -9.05% +23.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,741 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,000 £72,860
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the North East.

Salary trend for QA in the North East

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the North East over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the North East region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Durham +16 52 £81,764 +55.74% 4
Tyne and Wear +44 36 £55,000 +31.66% 59
Northumberland 0 1 £61,000 +52.50% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (4.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (2.25%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.87%) Azure
2 6 (6.74%) AWS
3 3 (3.37%) GitHub
4 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.25%) GCP
4 2 (2.25%) Slack
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.12%) Bitrise
5 1 (1.12%) Firebase
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) SAN
2 1 (1.12%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.12%) Network Security
2 1 (1.12%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.12%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.12%) Impala
2 1 (1.12%) Metadata
2 1 (1.12%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (1.12%) MySQL
2 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.12%) Power BI
2 1 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (1.12%) QlikView
2 1 (1.12%) Spark SQL
2 1 (1.12%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Selenium
2 4 (4.49%) Git
2 4 (4.49%) JIRA
3 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.37%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.37%) GitLab
3 3 (3.37%) Maven
3 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
3 3 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.25%) NUnit
4 2 (2.25%) Postman
4 2 (2.25%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.12%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.12%) JUnit
General
1 70 (78.65%) Finance
2 67 (75.28%) Social Skills
3 64 (71.91%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (69.66%) Marketing
5 4 (4.49%) Games
5 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.37%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.25%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Advertising
8 1 (1.12%) Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 62 (69.66%) Development Manager
1 62 (69.66%) Product Development Manager
1 62 (69.66%) Product Manager
2 9 (10.11%) Senior
2 9 (10.11%) Software Engineer
3 5 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (3.37%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (3.37%) Lead
4 3 (3.37%) PHP Software Engineer
5 2 (2.25%) Consultant
5 2 (2.25%) DBA
5 2 (2.25%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (2.25%) QA Officer
6 1 (1.12%) Architect
6 1 (1.12%) Developer
6 1 (1.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (1.12%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.12%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.62%) .NET
1 5 (5.62%) REST
2 4 (4.49%) CSS
2 4 (4.49%) Kafka
2 4 (4.49%) React
2 4 (4.49%) Spring
2 4 (4.49%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.37%) HTML
3 3 (3.37%) JPA
3 3 (3.37%) Redux
4 2 (2.25%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.25%) CSS3
4 2 (2.25%) HTML5
4 2 (2.25%) Jest
4 2 (2.25%) RESTful
4 2 (2.25%) Sass
4 2 (2.25%) Web Services
5 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.12%) iOS SDK
5 1 (1.12%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 62 (69.66%) FMCG
2 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.25%) ASTM
3 2 (2.25%) NHS
3 2 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.12%) PropTech
4 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.12%) Android
2 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (74.16%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (73.03%) Project Management
3 62 (69.66%) Commercialisation
3 62 (69.66%) Competitor Analysis
3 62 (69.66%) Product Strategy
4 14 (15.73%) Software Engineering
5 13 (14.61%) Agile
5 13 (14.61%) Mentoring
6 12 (13.48%) Test Automation
7 10 (11.24%) CI/CD
7 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.99%) DevOps
9 5 (5.62%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (4.49%) API Testing
10 4 (4.49%) Clean Code
10 4 (4.49%) Containerisation
10 4 (4.49%) Microservices
10 4 (4.49%) TDD
10 4 (4.49%) Test Strategy
10 4 (4.49%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.87%) Java
2 6 (6.74%) SQL
3 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.37%) PHP
5 2 (2.25%) C#
5 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.25%) Python
6 1 (1.12%) Bash
6 1 (1.12%) C
6 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.12%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.12%) R
6 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (75.28%) Degree
2 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.25%) GMP
2 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.12%) NCSC
2 1 (1.12%) NIST
2 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.12%) Firmware
2 1 (1.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Kibana
2 1 (1.12%) logstash
2 1 (1.12%) Oozie
2 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.37%) Solace
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe
2 2 (2.25%) Nimble Storage
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle
3 1 (1.12%) Databricks
3 1 (1.12%) Informatica
3 1 (1.12%) JD Edwards
3 1 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (1.12%) SAP