QA Jobs in the North of England

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 23 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 77 16
Rank change year-on-year +15 -61 +54
Permanent jobs citing QA 414 375 2,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.35% 3.47% 12.91%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.46% 26.13% 58.80%
Number of salaries quoted 139 227 272
10th Percentile £25,800 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +6.96%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,127 1,435 3,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.22% 13.29% 21.96%
Number of salaries quoted 850 1,041 1,201
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,291 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.73% -0.36% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for QA in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 January 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
North West -6 223 £50,000 +5.26% 70
North East +38 96 £61,000 +10.91% 14
Yorkshire -9 95 £43,500 -20.91% 27
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.21%) CMS
2 5 (1.21%) IIS
3 4 (0.97%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (0.97%) WordPress
4 3 (0.72%) Confluence
4 3 (0.72%) Drupal
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) Moodle
6 1 (0.24%) Totara
6 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 36 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.72%) Blender
4 3 (0.72%) Maya
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.24%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.24%) Pro Tools
5 1 (0.24%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.29%) Azure
2 24 (5.80%) AWS
3 23 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.90%) SaaS
5 10 (2.42%) Serverless
6 7 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (1.45%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.21%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.97%) Azure Functions
10 3 (0.72%) GCP
10 3 (0.72%) GitHub
10 3 (0.72%) PaaS
11 2 (0.48%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.48%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.21%) Internet
2 4 (0.97%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.48%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.48%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) Modbus
4 1 (0.24%) Broadband
4 1 (0.24%) SAN
4 1 (0.24%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.97%) MySQL
2 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.48%) Power BI
3 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (5.80%) JIRA
2 17 (4.11%) Selenium
3 16 (3.86%) Postman
4 13 (3.14%) Cucumber
5 10 (2.42%) Git
6 9 (2.17%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.69%) GitLab
9 6 (1.45%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.45%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.97%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.97%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.97%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.97%) TestRail
11 2 (0.48%) JMeter
12 1 (0.24%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.24%) Maven
12 1 (0.24%) TestComplete
12 1 (0.24%) TestNG
12 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 175 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 141 (34.06%) Analytical Skills
3 130 (31.40%) Finance
4 71 (17.15%) Marketing
5 53 (12.80%) Manufacturing
6 44 (10.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 28 (6.76%) Retail
8 25 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.38%) Automotive
9 14 (3.38%) Games
9 14 (3.38%) Legal
10 13 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.90%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.17%) Law
12 9 (2.17%) Local Government
13 7 (1.69%) Military
14 6 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.21%) Electronics
16 4 (0.97%) Banking
16 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (16.91%) Development Manager
2 66 (15.94%) Product Development Manager
2 66 (15.94%) Product Manager
3 60 (14.49%) Analyst
4 48 (11.59%) Senior
5 35 (8.45%) QA Manager
6 34 (8.21%) Tester
7 31 (7.49%) Business Analyst
8 26 (6.28%) Developer
9 21 (5.07%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.35%) Business Development Analyst
10 18 (4.35%) Development Analyst
10 18 (4.35%) Project Analyst
10 18 (4.35%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.35%) Software Analyst
10 18 (4.35%) Software Development Analyst
10 18 (4.35%) Software Development Business Analyst
11 16 (3.86%) Lead
12 15 (3.62%) Software Tester
13 13 (3.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.63%) .NET
2 22 (5.31%) AngularJS
3 21 (5.07%) REST
4 20 (4.83%) React
5 17 (4.11%) ASP.NET
6 14 (3.38%) .NET Core
7 13 (3.14%) ASP.NET Web API
7 13 (3.14%) JSON
8 12 (2.90%) Blazor
9 11 (2.66%) XML
10 9 (2.17%) CSS
10 9 (2.17%) HTML
10 9 (2.17%) Web Services
11 8 (1.93%) SOAP
12 7 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (1.21%) Unreal Engine
15 4 (0.97%) RxJS
15 4 (0.97%) Sass
16 3 (0.72%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.94%) FMCG
2 41 (9.90%) Management Information System
3 31 (7.49%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.14%) Social Media
6 12 (2.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.21%) EMV
10 5 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.72%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.72%) Life Science
12 3 (0.72%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.86%) Windows
2 12 (2.90%) Linux
2 12 (2.90%) Windows Vista
3 3 (0.72%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (35.75%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (28.02%) Project Management
3 104 (25.12%) Agile
4 77 (18.60%) Mentoring
5 68 (16.43%) Test Automation
6 66 (15.94%) Coaching
6 66 (15.94%) Commercialisation
6 66 (15.94%) Competitor Analysis
6 66 (15.94%) Product Strategy
7 57 (13.77%) Software Testing
8 50 (12.08%) Validation
9 48 (11.59%) DevOps
10 46 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 41 (9.90%) QMS
12 33 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (7.25%) Microservices
14 28 (6.76%) SDLC
14 28 (6.76%) Unit Testing
15 26 (6.28%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 44 (10.63%) JavaScript
2 40 (9.66%) SQL
3 39 (9.42%) C#
4 27 (6.52%) Java
5 21 (5.07%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.83%) Python
7 7 (1.69%) C++
8 6 (1.45%) Groovy
8 6 (1.45%) Perl
8 6 (1.45%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.45%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.21%) C
10 4 (0.97%) PHP
11 3 (0.72%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.48%) Ruby
12 2 (0.48%) VB
12 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.48%) VB6
13 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (29.23%) Degree
2 19 (4.59%) ISTQB
3 15 (3.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 14 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.14%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.42%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.93%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.93%) PMP
8 6 (1.45%) CBAP
8 6 (1.45%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (0.72%) APMG
11 2 (0.48%) HNC
11 2 (0.48%) MCP
11 2 (0.48%) NVQ Level 4
12 1 (0.24%) CISSP
12 1 (0.24%) ISEB
12 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.87%) GMP
2 25 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.69%) ISO 9001
4 6 (1.45%) WAI
4 6 (1.45%) WCAG
5 5 (1.21%) SLA
6 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.97%) ITGC
7 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.24%) P3O
9 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (0.97%) Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.17%) Terraform
2 8 (1.93%) Ansible
3 7 (1.69%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.45%) Packer
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Puppet
5 1 (0.24%) Salt
Vendors
1 58 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.45%) Aderant
2 6 (1.45%) AppDynamics
2 6 (1.45%) Atlassian
2 6 (1.45%) IBM
2 6 (1.45%) SAP
3 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.72%) ANSYS
4 3 (0.72%) Google
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle
4 3 (0.72%) Salesforce
4 3 (0.72%) Siemens
5 2 (0.48%) Adobe
5 2 (0.48%) BT
5 2 (0.48%) Cisco
5 2 (0.48%) NEC
5 2 (0.48%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.24%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.24%) OutSystems