QA Jobs in Southampton

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 67 46
Rank change year-on-year +40 -21 +26
Permanent jobs citing QA 12 11 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 3.56% 1.26% 3.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.27% 13.41% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 24
10th Percentile £38,000 - £26,750
25th Percentile £45,125 £59,250 £38,249
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £54,688 £61,750 £71,563
90th Percentile £72,500 - £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £46,750 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.89% -18.18% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 41 82 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 12.17% 9.40% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 37 64 81
10th Percentile £35,850 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £39,166
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £54,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £60,000 £78,750
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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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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Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Southampton over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram 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:

Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Productboard
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (16.67%) Marketing
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 2 (16.67%) Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (8.33%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Delphi Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Software Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Tester
3 1 (8.33%) QA Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (25.00%) Coaching
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Product Management
4 3 (25.00%) Project Management
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
6 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Delphi
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) C
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce