QA Jobs in the South East

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 58 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing QA 499 561 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.31% 4.84% 5.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.39% 34.17% 33.35%
Number of salaries quoted 288 299 703
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,859 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% -3.51% +14.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,965 1,642 3,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.02% 14.17% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 1,009 2,078
10th Percentile £24,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the South East.

Salary trend for QA in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Thames Valley -8 208 £48,925 -2.15% 38
Hampshire -26 99 £40,000 -30.43% 28
Oxfordshire -9 89 £45,000 -21.74% 19
Berkshire -16 84 £48,925 -11.05% 8
Surrey +14 79 £47,500 +8.57% 9
Kent -5 51 £40,000 -36.51% 10
Buckinghamshire -9 35 £47,500 +11.25% 11
West Sussex -1 29 £64,000 +16.36% 5
East Sussex -3 17 £52,500 -16.00% 4
Sussex - 8 £62,500 - 2
Middlesex -18 1 £32,000 -55.86% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.40%) Documentum
3 7 (1.40%) Kinematics
4 5 (1.00%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) CMS
5 4 (0.80%) TWiki
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 28 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.40%) TrackWise
2 7 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.20%) Maximo
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (17.43%) Azure
2 51 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (9.42%) SaaS
4 46 (9.22%) AWS
5 33 (6.61%) GCP
6 20 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.41%) Power Platform
8 16 (3.21%) GitHub
9 7 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.20%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.20%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.60%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.60%) Serverless
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (0.40%) BrowserStack
12 2 (0.40%) Smartsheet
12 2 (0.40%) Veeva
13 1 (0.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 1 (0.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.60%) Firewall
2 7 (1.40%) Internet
2 7 (1.40%) RFID
3 5 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (0.80%) 5G
4 4 (0.80%) Bluetooth
4 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.80%) Wireless
5 3 (0.60%) MQTT
5 3 (0.60%) RS-485
6 2 (0.40%) 4G
6 2 (0.40%) DNS
6 2 (0.40%) GSM
6 2 (0.40%) ISDN
6 2 (0.40%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.40%) LTE
6 2 (0.40%) Modbus
6 2 (0.40%) PSTN
6 2 (0.40%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 26 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 25 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.81%) BigQuery
4 24 (4.81%) Looker
5 16 (3.21%) Power BI
6 13 (2.61%) MySQL
7 12 (2.40%) Big Data
8 11 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (2.00%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.80%) Tableau
11 8 (1.60%) Crystal Reports
12 7 (1.40%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.20%) EDMS
14 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.80%) PowerPivot
16 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
17 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
18 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
18 1 (0.20%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 59 (11.82%) Selenium
2 31 (6.21%) Git
3 30 (6.01%) JIRA
4 17 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.81%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.61%) Visual Studio
7 12 (2.40%) TestRail
8 11 (2.20%) WebDriver
9 9 (1.80%) eggPlant
10 8 (1.60%) NUnit
11 7 (1.40%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.40%) Postman
12 6 (1.20%) JUnit
13 5 (1.00%) Bugzilla
13 5 (1.00%) GitLab
13 5 (1.00%) Maven
13 5 (1.00%) SpecFlow
13 5 (1.00%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.80%) JMeter
15 3 (0.60%) SoapUI
General
1 196 (39.28%) Social Skills
2 123 (24.65%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (15.43%) Manufacturing
4 58 (11.62%) Finance
5 52 (10.42%) Pharmaceutical
6 42 (8.42%) Aerospace
7 39 (7.82%) Marketing
8 30 (6.01%) Electronics
9 25 (5.01%) Legal
10 24 (4.81%) Billing
11 23 (4.61%) Telecoms
12 22 (4.41%) Retail
13 16 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.61%) Public Sector
16 12 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.80%) Law
17 9 (1.80%) Police
18 7 (1.40%) Local Government
19 6 (1.20%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 52 (10.42%) Developer
2 48 (9.62%) QA Manager
3 42 (8.42%) Analyst
4 38 (7.62%) QA Engineer
5 36 (7.21%) Quality Manager
6 33 (6.61%) Quality Engineer
7 30 (6.01%) Lead
8 29 (5.81%) Senior
9 27 (5.41%) Engineering Manager
10 25 (5.01%) Data Manager
11 22 (4.41%) IT Manager
11 22 (4.41%) Test Analyst
12 20 (4.01%) Tester
13 19 (3.81%) Software Engineer
14 18 (3.61%) Automation Tester
15 17 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
16 16 (3.21%) Systems Manager
16 16 (3.21%) Test Engineer
17 15 (3.01%) QA Specialist
18 14 (2.81%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.42%) .NET
2 29 (5.81%) CSS
3 25 (5.01%) HTML
4 19 (3.81%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.21%) .NET Core
6 15 (3.01%) JSON
6 15 (3.01%) XML
7 14 (2.81%) .NET Framework
7 14 (2.81%) HTML5
7 14 (2.81%) React
8 13 (2.61%) jQuery
9 12 (2.40%) Web Services
10 10 (2.00%) Playwright
11 9 (1.80%) CSS3
11 9 (1.80%) Laravel
11 9 (1.80%) Symfony
12 7 (1.40%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.40%) WPF
13 6 (1.20%) Node.js
13 6 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.42%) Management Information System
2 37 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.61%) Life Science
4 23 (4.61%) Biopharmaceutical
5 20 (4.01%) IoT
6 15 (3.01%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.61%) LIMS
7 13 (2.61%) Satnav
8 11 (2.20%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.80%) Taxonomies
11 8 (1.60%) Learning Management System
11 8 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.40%) GNSS
12 7 (1.40%) Pharmacovigilance
13 6 (1.20%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.20%) Housing Association
13 6 (1.20%) SCORM
14 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.82%) Windows
2 19 (3.81%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.81%) Linux
4 9 (1.80%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.80%) Windows NT
4 9 (1.80%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.60%) Android
5 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (32.87%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (29.86%) Agile
3 109 (21.84%) Test Automation
4 86 (17.23%) Project Management
5 76 (15.23%) DevOps
6 69 (13.83%) Collaborative Working
7 67 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (12.02%) CI/CD
9 58 (11.62%) Test Scripting
10 57 (11.42%) Mentoring
10 57 (11.42%) Scrum
11 52 (10.42%) Software Testing
12 50 (10.02%) Validation
13 48 (9.62%) Quality Management
14 46 (9.22%) QMS
15 38 (7.62%) Computer Science
15 38 (7.62%) Software Engineering
15 38 (7.62%) Test Assurance
16 37 (7.41%) ETL
17 36 (7.21%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 74 (14.83%) SQL
2 61 (12.22%) C#
3 58 (11.62%) JavaScript
4 34 (6.81%) Python
5 31 (6.21%) C++
6 29 (5.81%) Java
7 28 (5.61%) C
8 12 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.00%) Go
10 9 (1.80%) PHP
11 7 (1.40%) XAML
12 4 (0.80%) PL/1
13 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.60%) VB
14 2 (0.40%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.20%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.20%) R
15 1 (0.20%) Tcl
15 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (23.85%) Degree
2 71 (14.23%) Security Cleared
3 41 (8.22%) DV Cleared
4 40 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 25 (5.01%) ISTQB
6 21 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.81%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 10 (2.00%) MBA
9 10 (2.00%) PhD
10 7 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.20%) HNC
12 2 (0.40%) EMC Certification
12 2 (0.40%) ISEB
13 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.20%) CCA
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.21%) GMP
2 20 (4.01%) GxP
2 20 (4.01%) ISO 9001
3 17 (3.41%) ISO 14001
4 15 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.40%) Good Clinical Practice
5 12 (2.40%) ISO 22301
5 12 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.40%) NEBOSH
6 11 (2.20%) GDPR
6 11 (2.20%) Software Quality Assurance
7 9 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.40%) ISO 13485
10 5 (1.00%) SLA
11 2 (0.40%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) COSHH
12 1 (0.20%) IFRS
12 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (4.41%) Docker
1 22 (4.41%) Firmware
2 10 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.80%) SCCM
2 9 (1.80%) Sysprep
2 9 (1.80%) WSUS
3 6 (1.20%) Ansible
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.00%) Terraform
5 4 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
6 3 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.60%) Podman
6 3 (0.60%) Puppet
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.61%) Google
3 20 (4.01%) SAP
4 12 (2.40%) Oracle
5 9 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.80%) HP
7 4 (0.80%) Openreach
8 3 (0.60%) BT
9 2 (0.40%) Atmel
9 2 (0.40%) EMC
9 2 (0.40%) Freescale
10 1 (0.20%) ANSYS
10 1 (0.20%) Ariba
10 1 (0.20%) Databricks
10 1 (0.20%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.20%) Splunk
10 1 (0.20%) Sun
10 1 (0.20%) VMware