Quality Management Job Trends in the South East

Quality Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Quality Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 250 254
Rank change year-on-year +82 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 100 44 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.96% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.56% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 16
10th Percentile £49,500 £42,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,813 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £56,509 £49,541
Median % change year-on-year +12.81% +14.07% +52.43%
75th Percentile £70,375 £68,438 £64,063
90th Percentile £73,300 £78,750 £84,875
England median annual salary £63,750 £46,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% +0.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Quality Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,351 7,921 7,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.19% 88.17% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,996 3,786 5,412
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,809 £45,000 £38,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quality Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Quality Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Quality Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Quality Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Quality Management

Quality Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Management in the South East over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Quality Management in the South East

Quality Management
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 Quality Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Thames Valley +83 88 £55,000 -5.59% 12
Berkshire +70 88 £55,000 - 5
Hampshire +36 7 £45,000 - 3
East Sussex - 4 £67,500 - 2
Quality Management
England

Quality Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 58 (58.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.00%) Primavera
2 1 (1.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.00%) Azure
2 30 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.00%) GCP
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) Modbus
1 2 (2.00%) MQTT
2 1 (1.00%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (30.00%) Power BI
2 28 (28.00%) Data Lake
2 28 (28.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.00%) Metadata
General
1 68 (68.00%) Manufacturing
2 67 (67.00%) Social Skills
3 61 (61.00%) Finance
4 58 (58.00%) Marketing
5 38 (38.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.00%) Automotive
6 5 (5.00%) Electronics
7 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (86.00%) Analyst
2 58 (58.00%) Senior
3 57 (57.00%) SAP Analyst
3 57 (57.00%) Senior Analyst
4 28 (28.00%) Report Analyst
4 28 (28.00%) Sustainability Analyst
5 6 (6.00%) Quality Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.00%) Programme Manager
8 2 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.00%) Implementation Engineer
8 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
8 2 (2.00%) Programme Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.00%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (1.00%) Data Manager
9 1 (1.00%) Data Quality Manager
9 1 (1.00%) Genesys Engineer
9 1 (1.00%) Planning Manager
9 1 (1.00%) Programme Planning Manager
9 1 (1.00%) Senior Genesys Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.00%) Middleware
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.00%) REST
1 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.00%) IoT
1 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 2 (2.00%) SCADA
2 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (91.00%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (58.00%) Data Management
2 58 (58.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 57 (57.00%) Architectural Design
3 57 (57.00%) Data Collection
3 57 (57.00%) Decision Quality
3 57 (57.00%) Impact Analysis
3 57 (57.00%) Incident Management
3 57 (57.00%) Logistics
3 57 (57.00%) SAP Implementation
3 57 (57.00%) Technical Leadership
3 57 (57.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 32 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (30.00%) Analytics
6 29 (29.00%) Data Modelling
7 28 (28.00%) GAP Analysis
7 28 (28.00%) Source to Pay
8 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (6.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (6.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (36.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 5 (5.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 5 (5.00%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
4 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.00%) ISO 9001
3 5 (5.00%) ISO 13485
3 5 (5.00%) QA
4 3 (3.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.00%) GDPR
5 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (86.00%) SAP
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.00%) Genesys
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle
3 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow