QA Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Quality Assurance (QA)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 6 28
Rank change year-on-year -58 +22 +28
Permanent jobs citing QA 35 210 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.66% 22.98% 6.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.83% 81.71% 34.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12 28 53
10th Percentile £36,426 £42,475 £26,625
25th Percentile £40,988 £52,875 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,137 £62,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% +47.06% +7.59%
75th Percentile £55,625 £67,500 £50,250
90th Percentile £71,000 £88,750 £58,500
North East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +35.29% +11.84%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Tyne and Wear

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 253 257 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.21% 28.12% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 181 68 180
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,624 £22,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,438 £22,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,968 £55,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +42.86% -3.75%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £50,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £70,125
North East median annual salary £50,000 £47,711 £38,500
% change year-on-year +4.80% +23.92% -3.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for QA in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Tyne and Wear

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Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -49 32 £53,750 -14.00% 14
Gateshead -6 1 - - 2
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North East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
1 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) GitHub
3 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.86%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
General
1 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (14.29%) Automotive
6 4 (11.43%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (11.43%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Billing
7 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.86%) Local Government
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Senior
2 4 (11.43%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.43%) QA Specialist
2 4 (11.43%) Technical Support
3 3 (8.57%) Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Head of Project Management
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) Project Leader
3 3 (8.57%) Senior Project Leader
4 2 (5.71%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Development Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Digital Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Head of Digital
4 2 (5.71%) Head of PMO
4 2 (5.71%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.71%) IT Support
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (5.71%) Software Development Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Software Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) React
1 2 (5.71%) Spring
1 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.86%) Playwright
2 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Blockchain
1 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (2.86%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Mentoring
2 15 (42.86%) Agile
3 14 (40.00%) User Experience
4 13 (37.14%) Project Management
5 12 (34.29%) SDLC
6 11 (31.43%) Coaching
7 10 (28.57%) DevOps
8 9 (25.71%) Change Control
9 5 (14.29%) Line Management
10 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.43%) Process Improvement
10 4 (11.43%) Web Development
11 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
11 3 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (8.57%) Data Modelling
11 3 (8.57%) Project Delivery
11 3 (8.57%) Scrum
11 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
12 2 (5.71%) Customer Experience
12 2 (5.71%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Java
1 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.86%) C#
2 1 (2.86%) Scala
2 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.86%) CCSP
2 1 (2.86%) CISA
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.86%) CISM
2 1 (2.86%) CISSP
2 1 (2.86%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) PMO
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.71%) GMP
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Google