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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 62 6
Rank change year-on-year +48 -56 +35
Permanent jobs citing QA 97 56 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.76% 3.01% 20.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 62.58% 17.50% 73.41%
Number of salaries quoted 27 30 35
10th Percentile £41,895 £36,667 £26,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £40,000 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65,750 £61,058 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,250 £70,125 £84,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% -

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 155 320 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 20.39% 17.20% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 72 221 109
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £31,450
25th Percentile £47,188 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +23.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £69,649
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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +20 52 £81,764 +45.81% 3
Tyne and Wear +41 41 £55,000 +31.66% 31
Northumberland +5 4 £61,000 +52.50%
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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 (4.12%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (2.06%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.31%) Azure
2 4 (4.12%) AWS
3 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.06%) GitHub
4 2 (2.06%) Slack
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.03%) Bitrise
5 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.03%) Firebase
5 1 (1.03%) GCP
5 1 (1.03%) IaaS
5 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.06%) SAN
3 1 (1.03%) Network Security
3 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Selenium
2 4 (4.12%) JIRA
3 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.09%) Git
3 3 (3.09%) GitLab
3 3 (3.09%) Maven
3 3 (3.09%) SonarQube
3 3 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.06%) NUnit
4 2 (2.06%) Postman
4 2 (2.06%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.03%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.03%) JUnit
General
1 70 (72.16%) Finance
1 70 (72.16%) Social Skills
2 64 (65.98%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (63.92%) Marketing
4 6 (6.19%) Games
5 5 (5.15%) Retail
6 4 (4.12%) Electronics
6 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Automotive
7 3 (3.09%) Banking
8 2 (2.06%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Legal
9 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 63 (64.95%) Development Manager
2 62 (63.92%) Product Development Manager
2 62 (63.92%) Product Manager
3 14 (14.43%) Senior
3 14 (14.43%) Software Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (5.15%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Developer
7 3 (3.09%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Lead
8 2 (2.06%) .NET Web Developer
8 2 (2.06%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (2.06%) C# Web Developer
8 2 (2.06%) Lead Consultant
8 2 (2.06%) QA Officer
8 2 (2.06%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) .NET
2 7 (7.22%) React
3 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.12%) CSS
4 4 (4.12%) REST
5 3 (3.09%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.09%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.09%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (3.09%) Blazor
5 3 (3.09%) HTML
5 3 (3.09%) JPA
5 3 (3.09%) Kafka
5 3 (3.09%) Redux
5 3 (3.09%) Spring
5 3 (3.09%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.06%) CSS3
6 2 (2.06%) HTML5
6 2 (2.06%) Jest
6 2 (2.06%) RESTful
6 2 (2.06%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 62 (63.92%) FMCG
2 4 (4.12%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.06%) ASTM
4 2 (2.06%) NHS
4 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.03%) PropTech
5 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Android
2 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (68.04%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (67.01%) Project Management
3 62 (63.92%) Commercialisation
3 62 (63.92%) Competitor Analysis
3 62 (63.92%) Product Strategy
4 21 (21.65%) Software Engineering
5 18 (18.56%) Mentoring
6 17 (17.53%) Agile
7 16 (16.49%) Test Automation
8 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.31%) CI/CD
10 9 (9.28%) Unit Testing
11 8 (8.25%) DevOps
12 7 (7.22%) TDD
13 6 (6.19%) Clean Code
13 6 (6.19%) Microservices
14 5 (5.15%) E-Commerce
14 5 (5.15%) Performance Optimisation
14 5 (5.15%) SOLID
15 4 (4.12%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.25%) SQL
2 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.19%) C#
3 6 (6.19%) Java
3 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.15%) PHP
5 4 (4.12%) C
6 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (70.10%) Degree
2 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.06%) GMP
2 2 (2.06%) SLA
3 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.03%) NCSC
3 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (4.12%) Firmware
2 3 (3.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.09%) Solace
3 2 (2.06%) Adobe
3 2 (2.06%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle
4 1 (1.03%) JD Edwards