QA Jobs in the South West

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > South West

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 59 41
Rank change year-on-year -37 -18 +7
Permanent jobs citing QA 90 385 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.50% 3.57% 6.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.61% 29.84% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58 213 122
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,000 £32,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £27,050 £40,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,568 £60,000 £57,188
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,534 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +1.58%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 542 1,290 1,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.08% 11.96% 17.63%
Number of salaries quoted 267 825 656
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,650 £34,905 £39,158
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,396 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -4.74% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for QA in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the South West over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 June 2025. 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
Bristol +11 51 £65,684 +19.42% 155
Wiltshire +2 16 £56,745 +89.15% 47
Devon +21 11 £52,500 +31.25% 76
Gloucestershire +5 4 £56,250 +60.71% 123
Dorset -7 4 £37,500 -21.05% 62
Somerset -20 2 £56,250 +87.50% 97
Cornwall +4 1 - - 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (6.67%) Appian
2 5 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.44%) Confluence
4 2 (2.22%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.67%) Azure
2 11 (12.22%) AWS
3 10 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.44%) Collibra
5 4 (4.44%) SaaS
5 4 (4.44%) Serverless
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.33%) OCI
6 3 (3.33%) PaaS
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.22%) Scribe Online
7 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) ATM
1 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.11%) DHCP
2 1 (1.11%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) VLAN
2 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) Power BI
2 4 (4.44%) Ataccama
2 4 (4.44%) Metadata
2 4 (4.44%) Metadata Repository
2 4 (4.44%) Tableau
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Selenium
2 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 5 (5.56%) SpecFlow
3 3 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.33%) Git
3 3 (3.33%) GitLab
3 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (3.33%) Xcode
3 3 (3.33%) XCTest
3 3 (3.33%) Zephyr
4 2 (2.22%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.22%) Gatling
4 2 (2.22%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.22%) Locust
4 2 (2.22%) Postman
4 2 (2.22%) TestRail
5 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (31.11%) Finance
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Retail
4 11 (12.22%) Banking
5 7 (7.78%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.56%) Law
8 4 (4.44%) Electronics
8 4 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.33%) Games
9 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.33%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.22%) Aviation
10 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.22%) Marketing
10 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (15.56%) Lead
2 13 (14.44%) Senior
3 10 (11.11%) Analyst
4 9 (10.00%) Developer
5 8 (8.89%) Change and Release Manager
5 8 (8.89%) Change Manager
5 8 (8.89%) IT Change Manager
5 8 (8.89%) IT Manager
5 8 (8.89%) Release Manager
6 7 (7.78%) QA Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Manager
7 6 (6.67%) Appian Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Quality Manager
7 6 (6.67%) Test Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Consultant
8 5 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 5 (5.56%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.44%) QA Leader
9 4 (4.44%) QA Specialist
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (3.33%) SwiftUI
2 2 (2.22%) Playwright
3 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.11%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.11%) Middleware
3 1 (1.11%) pytest
3 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.11%) React
3 1 (1.11%) REST
3 1 (1.11%) Spring
3 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.33%) W3C
4 2 (2.22%) Replication
5 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.11%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.11%) EPoS
5 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.33%) Windows
2 11 (12.22%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.33%) Android
3 3 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (56.67%) Agile
2 25 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (25.56%) Test Automation
4 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (22.22%) DevOps
5 18 (20.00%) SDLC
5 18 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
7 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 13 (14.44%) Project Management
9 12 (13.33%) Project Delivery
9 12 (13.33%) Release Management
9 12 (13.33%) Unit Testing
9 12 (13.33%) User Experience
10 11 (12.22%) Computer Science
10 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.22%) Process Improvement
10 11 (12.22%) Roadmaps
10 11 (12.22%) Scrum
11 10 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.00%) Java
1 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (10.00%) Python
2 7 (7.78%) SQL
3 6 (6.67%) C#
4 4 (4.44%) C++
4 4 (4.44%) PHP
5 3 (3.33%) Bash
5 3 (3.33%) Swift
5 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.11%) Bicep
7 1 (1.11%) C
7 1 (1.11%) Go
7 1 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.22%) CITP
5 2 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CCNP
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.33%) PMO
3 2 (2.22%) GLP
3 2 (2.22%) GMP
4 1 (1.11%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.11%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) Google
4 3 (3.33%) Planview
4 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) VMware