QA Job Trends in Surrey

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 75 64
Rank change year-on-year +26 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing QA 71 22 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 3.29% 2.00% 3.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.13% 12.87% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 54 13 47
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £50,606 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -5.47%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £87,500 -
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -13.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 307 171 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 14.23% 15.56% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 225 115 306
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,713 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +31.78% -27.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,200 £76,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

QA job vacancy trend in Surrey

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Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Surrey over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Surrey

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Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
Reigate +6 17 £41,585 - 3
Guildford -16 11 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Leatherhead 0 9 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Staines 0 8 £72,500 +26.09% 1
Epsom +5 6 £35,000 -58.82%
Woking -15 6 - - 1
Egham - 4 £65,000 - 1
Godalming - 2 £38,500 - 1
Weybridge -5 1 - -
Redhill - 1 - - 2
Cobham - 1 - -
QA
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.04%) IIS
1 5 (7.04%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.08%) Azure
1 10 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (12.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 9 (12.68%) Azure Monitor
2 9 (12.68%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (7.04%) Azure AKS
3 5 (7.04%) Azure Pipelines
3 5 (7.04%) Cloudflare
4 4 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (4.23%) AWS
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) NAS
2 1 (1.41%) Broadband
2 1 (1.41%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.23%) Power BI
4 3 (4.23%) Tableau
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Git
2 5 (7.04%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (4.23%) Selenium
4 2 (2.82%) JIRA
4 2 (2.82%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.82%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.41%) JUnit
5 1 (1.41%) TestNG
5 1 (1.41%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Influencing Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Local Government
3 6 (8.45%) Automotive
3 6 (8.45%) Games
4 5 (7.04%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.63%) Marketing
5 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.41%) Electronics
6 1 (1.41%) Finance
6 1 (1.41%) Legal
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) QA Manager
1 18 (25.35%) Quality Manager
2 14 (19.72%) QA Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Senior
3 11 (15.49%) Consultant
3 11 (15.49%) Management Consultant
3 11 (15.49%) Programme Management Office Consultant
3 11 (15.49%) Programme Office Consultant
4 9 (12.68%) Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Lead
5 8 (11.27%) Senior Manager
5 8 (11.27%) Senior QA Manager
5 8 (11.27%) Senior Quality Manager
6 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) QA Automation Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Quality Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) .NET
2 5 (7.04%) ARM Templates
2 5 (7.04%) Loki
2 5 (7.04%) REST
3 4 (5.63%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.63%) ASP.NET
3 4 (5.63%) Blazor
3 4 (5.63%) gRPC
4 3 (4.23%) Vue
5 2 (2.82%) CSS
5 2 (2.82%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.82%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.82%) HTML
5 2 (2.82%) Laravel
5 2 (2.82%) React
5 2 (2.82%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.41%) NestJS
6 1 (1.41%) Node.js
6 1 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.41%) IoT
5 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Linux
2 5 (7.04%) Windows
3 1 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (19.72%) Decision-Making
2 14 (19.72%) Test Automation
3 12 (16.90%) Configuration Management
3 12 (16.90%) Project Management
3 12 (16.90%) Release Management
4 11 (15.49%) Asset Management
4 11 (15.49%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (15.49%) DevOps
4 11 (15.49%) Microservices
4 11 (15.49%) Programme Management
5 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
6 9 (12.68%) Performance Optimisation
7 8 (11.27%) Agile
7 8 (11.27%) Fintech
8 7 (9.86%) Performance Management
8 7 (9.86%) Service Delivery
8 7 (9.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.72%) C#
2 12 (16.90%) Python
3 6 (8.45%) SQL
4 5 (7.04%) Bicep
4 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.63%) Java
6 3 (4.23%) Go
6 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.82%) PHP
8 1 (1.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.41%) CISA
2 1 (1.41%) CISM
2 1 (1.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) PMO
2 4 (5.63%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (5.63%) GMP
2 4 (5.63%) GxP
3 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) NIST
4 1 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Grafana
1 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
1 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.23%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.63%) Citrix
2 4 (5.63%) QNAP
2 4 (5.63%) Synology
2 4 (5.63%) Veeam