QA Jobs in Surrey

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 67 78
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 -16
Permanent jobs citing QA 20 94 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 1.55% 3.63% 2.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.30% 18.61% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 13 46 27
10th Percentile £46,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £50,606 £31,875 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -1.04% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £87,500 £58,250 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £48,793 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.47% -11.29% -3.51%

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 177 505 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 13.73% 19.48% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 114 370 141
10th Percentile £26,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £24,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,606 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.90% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £66,125 £55,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,650 £72,500 £86,250
South East median annual salary £64,750 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +43.89% -10.00% -4.76%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Surrey

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Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for QA in Surrey

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Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
Staines +9 5 £57,500 - 1
Epsom -4 4 £85,000 +30.77% 2
Reigate +8 2 - - 3
Weybridge - 2 £47,500 - 1
Woking +29 1 - -
Leatherhead +25 1 £57,500 - 2
Guildford +9 1 £57,500 +76.92% 5
Horley - 1 - - 1
QA
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Sprinklr
1 1 (5.00%) TrackWise
1 1 (5.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
1 9 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) RS-232
1 1 (5.00%) RS-422
1 1 (5.00%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.00%) Metadata
3 2 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) Pentaho
3 2 (10.00%) Triplestore
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Legal
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Korean Language
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Development Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Software Development Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Software Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Jena
3 2 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) ADO.NET
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) pytest
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
4 1 (5.00%) WCF
4 1 (5.00%) Web Services
4 1 (5.00%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) AS400
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Acoustics
3 1 (5.00%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
5 7 (35.00%) Scrum
5 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (25.00%) API Management
7 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
7 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
8 4 (20.00%) Business Analysis
8 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 4 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (20.00%) Regression Testing
9 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) C#
1 11 (55.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.00%) SPARQL
4 1 (5.00%) C
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded C
4 1 (5.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Dublin Core
2 1 (5.00%) GLP
2 1 (5.00%) GMP
2 1 (5.00%) GxP
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Databricks
2 4 (20.00%) Informatica
3 3 (15.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Talend
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce