Software Quality Assurance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 738 705
Rank change year-on-year +183 -33 +99
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 2 28 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.040% 0.067%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.032% 0.29% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 19
10th Percentile - £45,450 £36,750
25th Percentile - £51,250 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile - £55,649 £47,500
90th Percentile - £57,547 £70,250
UK median annual salary £66,250 £55,024 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.40% -4.31% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,243 9,574 12,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.95% 13.62% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,050 6,349 4,736
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Quality Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Quality Assurance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
Software Quality Assurance
UK

Software Quality Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tester
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Pega