QA Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring QA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 51 32
Rank change year-on-year -14 -19 +5
Permanent jobs citing QA 4 31 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 0.62% 2.54% 5.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.12% 10.10% 48.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 18
10th Percentile £36,616 £43,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £48,041 £55,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,694 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £62,188
90th Percentile £91,500 £92,500 £88,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 97 307 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 15.02% 25.14% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 89 53 40
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,750 £22,900
25th Percentile £28,750 £37,500 £31,198
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -46.36% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £37,500 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £46,878 £99,000 £82,500
East Midlands median annual salary £35,500 £45,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year -21.11% -15.49% +18.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Nottinghamshire

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Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Nottinghamshire

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Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Nottingham 0 3 £54,388 -9.35% 10
QA
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (25.00%) SAP MM
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Retail
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) SAP MM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP