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 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 72 72 47
Rank change year-on-year 0 -25 +67
Permanent jobs citing QA 281 264 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.20% 4.24% 6.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.51% 27.91% 33.66%
Number of salaries quoted 157 128 251
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £39,500 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,200 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,325 £83,750
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 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 1,060 946 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.05% 15.20% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 651 687 905
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,075 £29,954
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,294 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,500 £83,250
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 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 26 July 2024.

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 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
Bristol -7 82 £53,750 +7.50% 30
Gloucestershire +18 56 £35,000 -12.50% 10
Wiltshire +1 49 £30,000 -40.00% 11
Dorset -24 40 £35,000 -26.32% 7
Somerset +9 23 £35,000 -22.22% 16
Devon -2 15 £62,500 +51.52% 9
Cornwall -7 8 £26,000 -35.00% 6
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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 5 (1.78%) Confluence
2 2 (0.71%) CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Drupal
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
3 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.14%) InfoPath
3 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.71%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 68 (24.20%) Azure
2 54 (19.22%) AWS
3 49 (17.44%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (11.74%) GCP
5 10 (3.56%) SaaS
6 6 (2.14%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.78%) IaaS
7 5 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.78%) PaaS
7 5 (1.78%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.71%) BrowserStack
9 2 (0.71%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) BGP
1 1 (0.36%) Firewall
1 1 (0.36%) HSRP
1 1 (0.36%) Intranet
1 1 (0.36%) VLAN
1 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.52%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (11.39%) BigQuery
2 32 (11.39%) Looker
3 12 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.78%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.42%) Power BI
6 3 (1.07%) Big Data
6 3 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.07%) Tableau
7 2 (0.71%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.36%) MySQL
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (7.12%) JIRA
2 18 (6.41%) Selenium
3 10 (3.56%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.20%) Cypress.io
4 9 (3.20%) Git
4 9 (3.20%) Postman
4 9 (3.20%) TeamCity
5 8 (2.85%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.42%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.42%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.42%) JMeter
7 4 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.07%) Appium
9 2 (0.71%) GitLab
9 2 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.71%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.71%) TestComplete
General
1 69 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.78%) Manufacturing
3 55 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.39%) Billing
5 30 (10.68%) Pharmaceutical
6 22 (7.83%) Finance
7 14 (4.98%) Law
7 14 (4.98%) Retail
8 13 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.85%) Marketing
10 7 (2.49%) Electronics
10 7 (2.49%) Legal
10 7 (2.49%) Military
11 6 (2.14%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.07%) Banking
14 3 (1.07%) Games
14 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (19.57%) Senior
2 35 (12.46%) Engineering Manager
2 35 (12.46%) QA Engineer
3 33 (11.74%) Data Manager
4 26 (9.25%) Developer
5 25 (8.90%) QA Specialist
6 24 (8.54%) Quality Engineer
7 21 (7.47%) Lead
8 20 (7.12%) Quality Manager
8 20 (7.12%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 19 (6.76%) QA Manager
10 11 (3.91%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.56%) Senior Manager
12 9 (3.20%) Product Manager
12 9 (3.20%) QA Leader
12 9 (3.20%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.49%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.49%) Support Assistant
13 7 (2.49%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.14%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.19%) React
2 19 (6.76%) CSS
2 19 (6.76%) HTML
3 16 (5.69%) .NET
3 16 (5.69%) AngularJS
4 13 (4.63%) REST
5 9 (3.20%) Gherkin
5 9 (3.20%) Spring
6 8 (2.85%) ASP.NET
6 8 (2.85%) Vue
7 7 (2.49%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (2.14%) jQuery
8 6 (2.14%) KnockoutJS
9 5 (1.78%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.78%) SOAP
10 4 (1.42%) Laravel
10 4 (1.42%) Servlets
10 4 (1.42%) Web Services
10 4 (1.42%) XML
11 2 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.95%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.85%) FMCG
2 8 (2.85%) Mobile App
3 4 (1.42%) Driving Licence
3 4 (1.42%) Low-Code
3 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.07%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.71%) Acoustics
5 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.71%) AS400
5 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.71%) NHS
5 2 (0.71%) Replication
5 2 (0.71%) Robotics
5 2 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.36%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.63%) Windows
2 9 (3.20%) Linux
3 4 (1.42%) AIX
4 3 (1.07%) Android
4 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (35.23%) Agile
3 66 (23.49%) Scrum
4 58 (20.64%) DevOps
5 54 (19.22%) Line Management
6 52 (18.51%) Project Management
7 46 (16.37%) CI/CD
8 41 (14.59%) Mentoring
9 40 (14.23%) ETL
10 39 (13.88%) Data Modelling
11 37 (13.17%) Coaching
11 37 (13.17%) Product Backlog
12 36 (12.81%) Backlog Management
13 35 (12.46%) Business Strategy
14 33 (11.74%) Data Engineering
15 32 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
16 30 (10.68%) Test Automation
17 26 (9.25%) QMS
18 23 (8.19%) Analytics
19 22 (7.83%) CAPA
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.68%) JavaScript
2 21 (7.47%) Java
3 18 (6.41%) SQL
4 17 (6.05%) Python
5 15 (5.34%) C#
6 7 (2.49%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.42%) PHP
7 4 (1.42%) VBA
8 2 (0.71%) C
8 2 (0.71%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.71%) Ruby
9 1 (0.36%) C++
9 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.36%) R
9 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 59 (21.00%) Degree
2 20 (7.12%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.85%) ISTQB
3 8 (2.85%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.78%) ISEB
5 5 (1.78%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.07%) CSPO
6 3 (1.07%) IIBA
7 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CCNP
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) MBA
8 1 (0.36%) MCSA
8 1 (0.36%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.25%) GMP
2 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.07%) ISO 13485
2 3 (1.07%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.07%) SLA
3 2 (0.71%) Def Stans
3 2 (0.71%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.36%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.36%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.36%) PMO
4 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (1.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.36%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.36%) SCCM
2 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.39%) Google
3 4 (1.42%) ConnectWise
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle
4 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.07%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.07%) Twitter
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe
5 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.36%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.36%) Databricks
5 1 (0.36%) Facebook
5 1 (0.36%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.36%) Instagram
5 1 (0.36%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.36%) SAP
5 1 (0.36%) Thales
5 1 (0.36%) VMware