QA Job Trends in Taunton

Quality Assurance (QA)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QA 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 2.63% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 66.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 3.95% 4.35% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £22,625 - -
25th Percentile £26,563 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.50% - -
75th Percentile £42,063 £52,500 -
90th Percentile £46,075 - -
Somerset median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -38.46% +30.00%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

QA job vacancy trend in Taunton

QA
Salary Trend in Taunton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing QA

QA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification