QA Manager Jobs

Quality Assurance Manager
UK

The median Quality Assurance Manager salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 659 594 871
Rank change year-on-year -65 +277 +245
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Manager 55 343 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.31% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.33% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 16 217 39
10th Percentile - £30,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,938 £55,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £70,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +61.11% -25.00% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,220 103,726 84,723
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.02% 94.76% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,439 73,309 55,187
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,605 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%

QA Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured QA Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QA Manager in the UK

QA Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Manager.

Salary trend for QA Manager in the UK

QA Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Manager over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Manager in the UK

QA Manager
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England -84 46 £52,500 +10.53% 24
UK excluding London -19 42 £72,500 +61.11% 17
North of England +43 25 £76,250 +117.86% 5
North West +23 25 £76,250 +154.17% 5
London +43 9 £42,500 -38.18% 9
South West +98 7 £72,500 +45.00% 2
Wales +17 5 - -
Work from Home +67 3 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Scotland +105 2 - - 1
East of England +24 2 - - 4
South East +33 1 £60,000 +13.21% 5

QA Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2025, QA Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring QA Manager in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) QA
2 31 (56.36%) Manufacturing
2 31 (56.36%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (47.27%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (47.27%) Degree
4 23 (41.82%) IBM Domino
5 21 (38.18%) Logistics
5 21 (38.18%) Innovative Thinking
5 21 (38.18%) Analytical Thinking
6 20 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
8 13 (23.64%) Internal Audit
8 13 (23.64%) GMP
8 13 (23.64%) Retail
9 11 (20.00%) Finance
10 8 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (12.73%) Data Management
11 7 (12.73%) Banking
12 6 (10.91%) Data Governance
12 6 (10.91%) Test Strategy
12 6 (10.91%) Data Quality
12 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
12 6 (10.91%) Coaching
13 5 (9.09%) Biochemistry
13 5 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
13 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (9.09%) Agile
13 5 (9.09%) Change Management
13 5 (9.09%) GLP
13 5 (9.09%) SAP

QA Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (41.82%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.64%) Azure
1 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (3.64%) PaaS
2 1 (1.82%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) JIRA
1 1 (1.82%) Selenium
General
1 31 (56.36%) Manufacturing
2 26 (47.27%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
4 13 (23.64%) Retail
5 11 (20.00%) Finance
6 7 (12.73%) Banking
7 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.64%) Law
9 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (56.36%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (38.18%) Analytical Thinking
2 21 (38.18%) Innovative Thinking
2 21 (38.18%) Logistics
3 20 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (23.64%) Internal Audit
5 8 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (12.73%) Data Management
7 6 (10.91%) Coaching
7 6 (10.91%) Data Governance
7 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
7 6 (10.91%) Test Strategy
8 5 (9.09%) Agile
8 5 (9.09%) Biochemistry
8 5 (9.09%) CAPA
8 5 (9.09%) Change Management
8 5 (9.09%) Chemistry
8 5 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (9.09%) Process Improvement
9 4 (7.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.82%) C#
1 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.82%) Python
1 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (47.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (100.00%) QA
2 13 (23.64%) GMP
3 6 (10.91%) Data Quality
4 5 (9.09%) GLP
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Google
1 5 (9.09%) SAP
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint