Software Quality Assurance Job Trends in Shropshire

Software Quality Assurance
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.54% 1.04% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.57% 9.09% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £42,750 - -
25th Percentile £43,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 -
75th Percentile £46,875 - -
90th Percentile £47,250 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Shropshire

Software Quality Assurance 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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 84 11 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 15.00% 11.46% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 46 10 22
10th Percentile £26,000 £35,750 £19,825
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,813 £53,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £50,500 £74,800
West Midlands median annual salary £54,068 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.99% - +2.44%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Quality Assurance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Software Quality Assurance job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Software Quality Assurance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Assurance
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Quality Assurance within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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
Telford -12 3 £45,000 - 1
Software Quality Assurance
West Midlands

Software Quality Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Siteimprove
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) TestRail
1 3 (100.00%) Toad
1 3 (100.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) QA Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle