QA Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Quality Assurance (QA)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 63 5
Rank change year-on-year +42 -58 +27
Permanent jobs citing QA 41 36 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.80% 2.68% 22.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 46.07% 14.23% 81.08%
Number of salaries quoted 22 11 29
10th Percentile £41,139 £35,920 £41,450
25th Percentile £46,563 £40,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,774 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.66% -33.16% +38.89%
75th Percentile £65,751 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £88,750
North East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +27.78%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 89 253 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.10% 18.82% 28.24%
Number of salaries quoted 62 177 71
10th Percentile £25,900 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £38,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +42.86%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £88,750
North East median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +23.38%

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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 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +31 29 £55,000 +4.76% 24
Sunderland - 11 - - 5
Gateshead +5 1 £52,500 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (4.88%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub
4 2 (4.88%) Slack
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.44%) Bitrise
5 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.44%) Firebase
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) SAN
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Selenium
2 4 (9.76%) JIRA
3 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.32%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.32%) Git
3 3 (7.32%) GitLab
3 3 (7.32%) Maven
3 3 (7.32%) SonarQube
3 3 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.88%) NUnit
4 2 (4.88%) Postman
4 2 (4.88%) SpecFlow
4 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.44%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) JUnit
General
1 18 (43.90%) Finance
1 18 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (26.83%) Marketing
4 6 (14.63%) Games
5 5 (12.20%) Retail
6 3 (7.32%) Automotive
6 3 (7.32%) Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.88%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.44%) Advertising
8 1 (2.44%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Development Manager
2 11 (26.83%) Product Development Manager
2 11 (26.83%) Product Manager
3 10 (24.39%) Senior
3 10 (24.39%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) PHP Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (4.88%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (4.88%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.88%) C# Web Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) DBA
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) QA Officer
6 2 (4.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) .NET
2 7 (17.07%) React
3 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.76%) CSS
4 4 (9.76%) REST
5 3 (7.32%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET
5 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (7.32%) Blazor
5 3 (7.32%) HTML
5 3 (7.32%) JPA
5 3 (7.32%) Kafka
5 3 (7.32%) Redux
5 3 (7.32%) Spring
5 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.88%) CSS3
6 2 (4.88%) Jest
6 2 (4.88%) RESTful
6 2 (4.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) FMCG
2 3 (7.32%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) ASTM
3 2 (4.88%) NHS
3 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) PropTech
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Android
1 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Agile
1 17 (41.46%) Software Engineering
2 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (34.15%) Mentoring
3 14 (34.15%) Project Management
4 12 (29.27%) Test Automation
5 11 (26.83%) Commercialisation
5 11 (26.83%) Competitor Analysis
5 11 (26.83%) Product Strategy
6 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
7 9 (21.95%) Unit Testing
8 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (19.51%) DevOps
9 7 (17.07%) TDD
10 6 (14.63%) Clean Code
10 6 (14.63%) Microservices
11 5 (12.20%) E-Commerce
11 5 (12.20%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (12.20%) SOLID
12 4 (9.76%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) SQL
2 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.63%) C#
3 6 (14.63%) Java
3 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.20%) PHP
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) GMP
2 2 (4.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Solace
3 2 (4.88%) Adobe
3 2 (4.88%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) JD Edwards