QA Jobs in Southampton

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hampshire > Southampton

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 48 66
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 -1
Permanent jobs citing QA 9 32 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 1.06% 4.05% 3.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.25% 30.77% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5 26 40
10th Percentile - £26,750 £42,375
25th Percentile £59,250 £39,374 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% +7.69% +21.88%
75th Percentile £61,750 £61,563 £58,750
90th Percentile - £80,000 £62,500
Hampshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Southampton

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 80 104 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 9.45% 13.16% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 62 87 121
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,958 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.64%
75th Percentile £54,750 £65,000 £60,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £75,500 £67,500
Hampshire median annual salary £47,500 £49,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Southampton

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Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Southampton.

Salary trend for QA in Southampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
1 5 (55.56%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) JBehave
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
3 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
1 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) QA Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Quality Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Disruptive Innovation
2 3 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (33.33%) Logistics
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 3 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 3 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle