QA Jobs in Portsmouth

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 41 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +26
Permanent jobs citing QA 5 13 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 1.25% 2.50% 6.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.26% 24.07% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 15
10th Percentile £39,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £60,500 £60,750 £68,750
Hampshire median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% -18.18% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 54 54 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 13.53% 10.36% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 22 46 54
10th Percentile £28,950 £42,500 £28,770
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,539 £48,500 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +12.45% +1.57% +46.92%
75th Percentile £69,463 £51,875 £59,364
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £68,375
Hampshire median annual salary £49,800 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.84% -5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Portsmouth

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Salary Trend in Portsmouth

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

Salary trend for QA in Portsmouth

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Salary Histogram in Portsmouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) pytest
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Test Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CMMI
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Product Breakdown Structure
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) QMS
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) V-Model
2 1 (20.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) AQAP
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance