QA Jobs in the Thames Valley

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 77 65 38
Rank change year-on-year -12 -27 +13
Permanent jobs citing QA 141 237 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.87% 3.51% 6.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.59% 27.30% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 22 138 122
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,175 £37,750
25th Percentile £44,063 £40,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £48,925 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -8.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £55,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £74,750 £63,677 £87,250
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
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 551 868 848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.13% 12.87% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 231 485 442
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,350 £30,100
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £39,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £45,000 £49,976
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% -9.96% -4.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £64,750 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +43.89% -10.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for QA in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +39 67 £27,500 -45.00% 13
Berkshire -19 51 £55,000 +10.00% 68
Oxfordshire -8 23 £57,500 +27.78% 41
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (4.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.71%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.75%) Azure
2 46 (32.62%) AWS
3 44 (31.21%) GCP
4 24 (17.02%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.13%) SaaS
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.71%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.71%) Google Drive
6 1 (0.71%) IaaS
6 1 (0.71%) PaaS
6 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (24.11%) TCP/IP
1 34 (24.11%) VPN
2 1 (0.71%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.44%) Metadata
2 25 (17.73%) Data Lake
3 24 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.96%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (29.08%) Cucumber
2 34 (24.11%) Robot Framework
3 16 (11.35%) Git
4 9 (6.38%) JIRA
5 7 (4.96%) SonarQube
6 6 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.26%) GitLab
6 6 (4.26%) Maven
6 6 (4.26%) Selenium
6 6 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.42%) Moq
7 2 (1.42%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.71%) MLflow
8 1 (0.71%) NUnit
8 1 (0.71%) Postman
8 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (50.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 64 (45.39%) Social Skills
3 38 (26.95%) Law
4 34 (24.11%) Telecoms
5 32 (22.70%) Manufacturing
6 16 (11.35%) Marketing
7 8 (5.67%) Banking
7 8 (5.67%) Finance
8 4 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.42%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.42%) Legal
9 2 (1.42%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Advertising
10 1 (0.71%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (53.19%) Senior
2 34 (24.11%) Test Automation Engineer
2 34 (24.11%) Test Engineer
3 26 (18.44%) Lead
4 15 (10.64%) Developer
4 15 (10.64%) Senior Developer
5 14 (9.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (9.93%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 14 (9.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (9.93%) Senior Web Developer
5 14 (9.93%) Web Developer
6 9 (6.38%) Software Engineer
7 4 (2.84%) Analyst
7 4 (2.84%) Junior
7 4 (2.84%) Junior Analyst
7 4 (2.84%) Junior QA Analyst
7 4 (2.84%) QA Analyst
7 4 (2.84%) QA Specialist
7 4 (2.84%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (2.13%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.60%) CSS
1 22 (15.60%) HTML
1 22 (15.60%) React
2 14 (9.93%) Node.js
2 14 (9.93%) RESTful
3 7 (4.96%) REST
4 6 (4.26%) Hibernate
4 6 (4.26%) JPA
4 6 (4.26%) Kafka
4 6 (4.26%) Redux
4 6 (4.26%) Spring
4 6 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.13%) .NET
5 3 (2.13%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.13%) OAuth
5 3 (2.13%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.13%) SOAP
6 2 (1.42%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (24.11%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.42%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.42%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.71%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.71%) NHS
5 1 (0.71%) Online Games
5 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (25.53%) Linux
2 34 (24.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (46.81%) Mentoring
2 63 (44.68%) DevOps
3 58 (41.13%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (40.43%) Test Automation
5 35 (24.82%) Agile
5 35 (24.82%) System Testing
6 34 (24.11%) Coaching
6 34 (24.11%) Test Management
7 32 (22.70%) CAD
8 31 (21.99%) Design for Manufacturing
9 27 (19.15%) Analytics
9 27 (19.15%) Validation
10 26 (18.44%) CI/CD
10 26 (18.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (17.73%) Asset Management
11 25 (17.73%) Data Management
11 25 (17.73%) Data Modelling
11 25 (17.73%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (17.73%) ETL
11 25 (17.73%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.68%) Python
2 57 (40.43%) JavaScript
3 38 (26.95%) SQL
4 34 (24.11%) Bash
4 34 (24.11%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.67%) Java
6 4 (2.84%) C#
6 4 (2.84%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.71%) Groovy
7 1 (0.71%) Perl
7 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 97 (68.79%) Degree
2 6 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.02%) Accessibility
1 24 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.84%) GMP
3 1 (0.71%) CDISC
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (16.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.42%) Terraform
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.71%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (4.26%) Solace
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.71%) Databricks
4 1 (0.71%) Google
4 1 (0.71%) IBM
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle
4 1 (0.71%) Rollbar