Software Quality Assurance Job Trends in Telford

Software Quality Assurance
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Telford 1.04% 1.67% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.98% 11.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £42,750 - -
25th Percentile £43,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 -
75th Percentile £46,875 - -
90th Percentile £47,250 - -
Shropshire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Telford

Software Quality Assurance 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 Telford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 43 9 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Telford 14.88% 15.00% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 31 8 12
10th Percentile £26,000 - £17,150
25th Percentile £29,125 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -17.50% -19.66%
75th Percentile £46,250 £49,063 £65,375
90th Percentile £57,500 £51,500 £88,625
Shropshire median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -25.00% -16.67%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Quality Assurance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Software Quality Assurance job vacancy trend in Telford

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Trend in Telford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Software Quality Assurance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Siteimprove
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) TestRail
1 3 (100.00%) Toad
1 3 (100.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) QA Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle