QA Job Trends in Sunderland

Quality Assurance (QA)
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sunderland requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QA 6 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Sunderland 3.30% - 2.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.22% - 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15,982
25th Percentile - - £21,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 - £31,240
75th Percentile - - £42,495
90th Percentile - - £48,498
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £41,774
% change year-on-year +10.53% +13.71% -35.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 27 3 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 14.84% 5.45% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 20 3 13
10th Percentile £28,925 - £35,700
25th Percentile £29,250 £56,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £57,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +47.44% +40.10%
75th Percentile £51,500 £59,375 £52,500
90th Percentile £78,225 £59,750 £58,750
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year - +41.03% -25.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Sunderland.

QA job vacancy trend in Sunderland

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Salary Trend in Sunderland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Lead C# Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Officer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Epics
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) People Management
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Fluentd
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace