QA Jobs in Staffordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 44 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 +7
Permanent jobs citing QA 35 54 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.59% 4.58% 7.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.41% 25.59% 34.23%
Number of salaries quoted 17 35 17
10th Percentile £48,117 - -
25th Percentile - £30,000 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £61,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - £96,000 £68,500
West Midlands median annual salary £53,688 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.26% -4.55% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 119 211 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 19.01% 17.88% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 88 157 85
10th Percentile - £23,800 £26,800
25th Percentile £28,822 £27,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £53,688 £56,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,442 £63,750 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +1.92% +9.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Staffordshire

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Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Staffordshire

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Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Staffordshire

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Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Stafford - 15 £53,688 - 2
Stoke-on-Trent -8 4 £65,000 +97.68% 6
Leek -7 2 £52,137 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 8 (22.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (2.86%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (22.86%) Power Automate
2 8 (22.86%) Power Platform
2 8 (22.86%) PowerApps
3 7 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.71%) VLAN
1 2 (5.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (51.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (48.57%) JIRA
2 16 (45.71%) Bitbucket
2 16 (45.71%) Cucumber
2 16 (45.71%) GitLab
2 16 (45.71%) Maven
2 16 (45.71%) Selenium
2 16 (45.71%) SonarQube
2 16 (45.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.86%) TestComplete
4 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 18 (51.43%) Finance
2 16 (45.71%) Banking
2 16 (45.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (37.14%) Police
4 10 (28.57%) Retail
5 9 (25.71%) Corporate Banking
5 9 (25.71%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Software Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Control Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (2.86%) Software Tester
6 1 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) React
2 16 (45.71%) CSS
2 16 (45.71%) HTML
2 16 (45.71%) JPA
2 16 (45.71%) Kafka
2 16 (45.71%) Redux
2 16 (45.71%) Spring
2 16 (45.71%) Spring Boot
3 10 (28.57%) .NET
3 10 (28.57%) Jest
4 9 (25.71%) CSS3
4 9 (25.71%) HTML5
4 9 (25.71%) REST
4 9 (25.71%) RESTful
4 9 (25.71%) Sass
5 7 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.71%) Web Services
7 1 (2.86%) Ionic Framework
7 1 (2.86%) Node.js
7 1 (2.86%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) Product Ownership
2 16 (45.71%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) SCADA
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Agile
1 19 (54.29%) User Experience
2 18 (51.43%) CI/CD
3 17 (48.57%) Containerisation
3 17 (48.57%) DevOps
3 17 (48.57%) Front End Development
3 17 (48.57%) SDLC
3 17 (48.57%) Software Engineering
3 17 (48.57%) Test Automation
4 16 (45.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (45.71%) Microservices
4 16 (45.71%) Performance Optimisation
5 12 (34.29%) Impact Assessments
6 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (28.57%) Data Transformation
6 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 10 (28.57%) Release Management
7 9 (25.71%) Migration
7 9 (25.71%) Responsive Web Design
7 9 (25.71%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) Java
2 19 (54.29%) SQL
3 17 (48.57%) JavaScript
4 12 (34.29%) C#
5 10 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.86%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 17 (48.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Solace
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Avaya
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.86%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.86%) Siemens