QA Jobs in Oxfordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 40 13
Rank change year-on-year -13 -27 +23
Permanent jobs citing QA 20 82 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.71% 4.85% 12.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.97% 39.23% 49.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 43 51
10th Percentile £46,225 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,188 £35,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,293 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% -4.92% -33.33%
75th Percentile £69,688 £57,524 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,875 £64,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 77 209 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.43% 12.36% 26.26%
Number of salaries quoted 52 118 114
10th Percentile £27,100 £23,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,063 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £56,480 £65,750
90th Percentile £83,375 £64,125 £73,750
South East median annual salary £62,000 £45,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year +37.02% -11.27% -2.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Oxfordshire

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Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Oxfordshire

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Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Oxfordshire

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Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Oxford -5 5 £65,000 +19.27% 16
Bicester +14 2 - - 1
Kidlington +10 2 - -
Chinnor - 2 - -
Banbury +7 1 - -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
1 9 (45.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Cucumber
2 9 (45.00%) Robot Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 2 (10.00%) Moq
3 2 (10.00%) Selenium
3 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.00%) MLflow
General
1 11 (55.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 9 (45.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Business Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Business Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Project Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) OAuth
2 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (15.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (10.00%) FHIR
3 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (10.00%) JPA
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) Redux
3 2 (10.00%) SOAP
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 9 (45.00%) Coaching
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) System Testing
4 9 (45.00%) Test Management
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) Front End Development
6 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 4 (20.00%) Data Security
8 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
9 2 (10.00%) Database Migration
9 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (10.00%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (60.00%) Python
3 9 (45.00%) Bash
3 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (25.00%) SQL
5 3 (15.00%) C#
5 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) CDISC
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (10.00%) Solace
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks