QA Jobs in Northamptonshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 47 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +23
Permanent jobs citing QA 51 23 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.94% 3.23% 5.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 32.28% 34.85% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 10
10th Percentile £29,600 £14,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £29,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -16.28% +7.50%
75th Percentile £34,000 £76,250 £75,313
90th Percentile £34,600 £76,500 £104,100
East Midlands median annual salary £54,694 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +15.15% -1.04% +4.92%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 158 66 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 18.41% 9.26% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 44 40 36
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,240 £29,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £24,807 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £33,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -28.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £42,900 £60,313
90th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £71,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,000 £41,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% -13.68% +5.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Northamptonshire

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Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Northamptonshire

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Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Northampton -18 4 £32,500 -27.78% 12
Towcester - 2 - - 1
Kettering +10 1 - - 1
Daventry 0 1 - -
Brackley - 1 - -
Corby - 1 - -
Wellingborough - 1 - -
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East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 25 (49.02%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) AWS
1 25 (49.02%) Azure
1 25 (49.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) TCP/IP
1 11 (21.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (49.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (70.59%) Cucumber
2 25 (49.02%) Bitbucket
2 25 (49.02%) GitLab
2 25 (49.02%) JIRA
2 25 (49.02%) Maven
2 25 (49.02%) Selenium
2 25 (49.02%) SonarQube
2 25 (49.02%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (21.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 49 (96.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (49.02%) Banking
2 25 (49.02%) Finance
3 14 (27.45%) Manufacturing
4 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 12 (23.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (49.02%) Software Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Senior
3 11 (21.57%) Test Automation Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) Test Engineer
4 1 (1.96%) Quality Inspector
4 1 (1.96%) Software Tester
4 1 (1.96%) Tester
4 1 (1.96%) Trainee
4 1 (1.96%) Trainee Software Tester
4 1 (1.96%) Trainee Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (49.02%) CSS
1 25 (49.02%) Hibernate
1 25 (49.02%) HTML
1 25 (49.02%) JPA
1 25 (49.02%) Kafka
1 25 (49.02%) React
1 25 (49.02%) Redux
1 25 (49.02%) Spring
1 25 (49.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (49.02%) Enterprise Software
1 25 (49.02%) Product Ownership
2 11 (21.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Linux
1 11 (21.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) Test Automation
2 36 (70.59%) DevOps
3 26 (50.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (50.98%) SDLC
4 25 (49.02%) Agile
4 25 (49.02%) CI/CD
4 25 (49.02%) Clean Code
4 25 (49.02%) Containerisation
4 25 (49.02%) Front End Development
4 25 (49.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (49.02%) Microservices
4 25 (49.02%) Performance Optimisation
4 25 (49.02%) Software Engineering
4 25 (49.02%) TDD
5 24 (47.06%) Mentoring
6 13 (25.49%) CAD
6 13 (25.49%) Design for Manufacturing
7 12 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (21.57%) Coaching
8 11 (21.57%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (70.59%) JavaScript
2 25 (49.02%) Java
2 25 (49.02%) SQL
3 11 (21.57%) Bash
3 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
3 11 (21.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (47.06%) Degree
System Software
1 25 (49.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (49.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (49.02%) Solace