QA Jobs in Poole

Quality Assurance (QA)
Dorset > Poole

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Poole 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 27 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -10
Permanent jobs citing QA 2 1 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Poole 2.82% 0.72% 11.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 8.33% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 22
10th Percentile - - £41,375
25th Percentile £29,750 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £33,250 - £48,750
90th Percentile - - £53,700
Dorset median annual salary £33,250 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -5.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Poole

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 Poole.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 12 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Poole 30.99% 8.63% 23.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 35
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,479 £41,750
25th Percentile £44,938 £33,015 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £43,646 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -8.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £53,750 £54,500
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary £61,500 £45,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +36.67% -12.62% +3.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Poole

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Poole

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Salary Trend in Poole

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

Salary trend for QA in Poole

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Poole 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL