QA Jobs in Northampton

Quality Assurance (QA)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 51 34 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 +14
Permanent jobs citing QA 4 15 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 0.79% 3.65% 6.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.00% 29.41% 39.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £29,600 £14,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £22,875 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £34,000 £76,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £34,600 £76,750 £130,500
Northamptonshire median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -27.78% -16.28% +7.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 100 51 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 19.69% 12.41% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 32 33 11
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,240 £34,500
25th Percentile £28,469 £24,807 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £36,344 £42,500 £70,125
90th Percentile £59,750 £47,000 £71,500
Northamptonshire median annual salary £32,750 £35,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.09% -25.79% +5.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Northampton

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Salary Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Northampton.

Salary trend for QA in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Inspector
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Trainee
1 1 (25.00%) Trainee Software Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Trainee Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Solace