QA Jobs in Preston

Quality Assurance (QA)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -17 -11 +16
Permanent jobs citing QA 1 2 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 0.39% 0.91% 8.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.86% 4.65% 62.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £30,730
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -19.13% +37.72%
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,250 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £78,000
Lancashire median annual salary £47,500 £30,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +58.33% -40.00% -13.04%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 35 43 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 13.67% 19.55% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17 31 23
10th Percentile - £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £36,250 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -18.18% +77.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,820 £62,500 £75,000
Lancashire median annual salary £47,683 £41,774 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.15% -16.45% +35.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Preston

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Salary Trend in Preston

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

Salary trend for QA in Preston

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript