Software Quality Assurance Jobs in Northern Ireland

Software Quality Assurance
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.35% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.63% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £66,250 £55,024 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.40% -4.31% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northern Ireland

Software Quality Assurance 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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 38 88 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 13.19% 12.72% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6 28 42
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £31,622 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £48,454 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.05% -3.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £89,688 £68,750 £61,063
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,875 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Software Quality Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in Northern Ireland

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Software Quality Assurance in Northern Ireland

Software Quality Assurance
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Quality Assurance within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 4
Software Quality Assurance
UK

Software Quality Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA