QA Jobs in Stockport

Quality Assurance (QA)
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Stockport 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 28 1
Rank change year-on-year +13 -27 +10
Permanent jobs citing QA 5 1 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 8.33% 0.98% 50.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.41% 8.33% 84.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £67,875 - -
25th Percentile £68,438 £51,250 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £52,500 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.24% +98.11% -46.46%
75th Percentile £83,438 £53,750 £27,250
90th Percentile £83,625 - -
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 17 12 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 28.33% 11.76% 59.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 13
10th Percentile £69,000 £25,150 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £55,938 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +19.43% +1.49%
75th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £53,029
90th Percentile £83,250 £72,625 -
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% +3.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Stockport

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Salary Trend in Stockport

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

Salary trend for QA in Stockport

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stockport 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Maven
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Law
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) QA Manager
2 2 (40.00%) QA Test Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) JPA
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Redux
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Sass
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Solace
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft