QA Job Trends in Nottingham

Quality Assurance (QA)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 28 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 0
Permanent jobs citing QA 28 38 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 5.52% 7.39% 4.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.73% 34.23% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 16
10th Percentile £26,000 £42,260 £31,875
25th Percentile £29,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,625
90th Percentile - £67,500 £68,750
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% -4.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 83 111 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 16.37% 21.60% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 60 35 39
10th Percentile £26,250 £40,130 £23,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £55,000 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year -39.09% +6.35% -5.97%
75th Percentile £48,125 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,500 £69,500
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £33,750 £55,000 £50,858
% change year-on-year -38.64% +8.14% -11.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

QA job vacancy trend in Nottingham

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Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Nottingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Nottingham over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Nottingham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.57%) SAP MM
1 1 (3.57%) SAP Retail
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) SaaS
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Postman
1 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (32.14%) Manufacturing
1 9 (32.14%) Retail
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Automotive
2 1 (3.57%) Law
2 1 (3.57%) Marketing
2 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) QA Manager
2 9 (32.14%) Quality Manager
3 8 (28.57%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 8 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) ERP Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) ERP Support
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (14.29%) SaaS Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Software Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Software Support Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.57%) Playwright
1 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) Analytical Thinking
2 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (32.14%) E-Commerce
2 9 (32.14%) ERP
2 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
3 8 (28.57%) CRM
3 8 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 8 (28.57%) Data Privacy
3 8 (28.57%) Logistics
3 8 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (7.14%) Quality Management
5 1 (3.57%) Agile
5 1 (3.57%) Agile Testing
5 1 (3.57%) Business Transformation
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL
5 1 (3.57%) Manual Testing
5 1 (3.57%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (3.57%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) C#
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GMP
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle
1 1 (3.57%) SAP