Quality Assurance (QA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 70 34 57
Rank change year-on-year -36 +23 +8
Permanent jobs citing QA 2,206 8,672 6,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.22% 7.09% 5.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.56% 39.89% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 4,012 4,604
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,723 21,738 19,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 17.78% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,686 11,782 12,692
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.06%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for QA in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for QA in the UK

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Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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 -31 1,969 £65,000 +8.33% 1,248
UK excluding London -46 1,200 £55,000 - 885
Work from Home -9 1,041 £62,500 +4.17% 527
London -8 872 £75,000 +7.14% 507
South East -3 358 £58,500 +1.74% 265
North of England -52 261 £55,000 - 246
South West -25 207 £60,000 +26.32% 73
Midlands -64 160 £52,500 - 141
North West -49 134 £55,000 - 140
Yorkshire -53 108 £65,000 +27.45% 77
West Midlands -55 96 £50,000 - 82
East of England -22 86 £57,500 +27.78% 66
Scotland -93 66 £47,557 -13.53% 70
East Midlands -47 60 £55,000 +3.01% 59
Wales -47 42 £35,000 -30.00% 32
Northern Ireland +27 27 £50,000 -16.67% 12
North East +4 19 £57,291 +16.92% 31
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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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 71 (3.22%) Confluence
2 65 (2.95%) SAS
3 33 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 26 (1.18%) CMS
5 14 (0.63%) WebSphere
5 14 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (0.36%) IIS
6 8 (0.36%) OpenEdge
6 8 (0.36%) WordPress
7 7 (0.32%) Drupal
8 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.23%) Apache
10 4 (0.18%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) Apache Pig
11 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.091%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.091%) Moodle
12 2 (0.091%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.045%) MQSeries
Applications
1 73 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.41%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.23%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.18%) Simulink
10 4 (0.18%) SPSS
11 3 (0.14%) Sketch
12 2 (0.091%) 3ds Max
12 2 (0.091%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.091%) Blender
12 2 (0.091%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.091%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.091%) UXPin
12 2 (0.091%) XMetaL
12 2 (0.091%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.41%) Sage X3
3 9 (0.41%) SAP QM
3 9 (0.41%) Shopify
4 6 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.23%) Infor M3
5 5 (0.23%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.18%) Ringtail
7 2 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.091%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.091%) Endur
7 2 (0.091%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.091%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.045%) JDE OneWorld
8 1 (0.045%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.045%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.045%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 449 (20.35%) Azure
2 360 (16.32%) AWS
3 181 (8.20%) GCP
4 156 (7.07%) SaaS
5 153 (6.94%) Serverless
6 149 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (4.67%) Power Platform
8 54 (2.45%) GitHub
9 45 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
11 32 (1.45%) PaaS
12 29 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
14 26 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 23 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
17 21 (0.95%) PowerApps
18 20 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (0.91%) Amazon S3
19 18 (0.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (0.95%) LAN
2 15 (0.68%) Firewall
3 13 (0.59%) DNS
4 11 (0.50%) DHCP
4 11 (0.50%) HTTP
5 10 (0.45%) WAN
6 8 (0.36%) Internet
7 6 (0.27%) Network Security
7 6 (0.27%) SAN
7 6 (0.27%) VPN
7 6 (0.27%) Wireless
7 6 (0.27%) WLAN
8 5 (0.23%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.18%) 3GPP
9 4 (0.18%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.18%) FlexRay
9 4 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.18%) SSL
9 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.18%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (6.98%) Relational Database
2 128 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 117 (5.30%) RDBMS
4 88 (3.99%) Oracle Database
5 80 (3.63%) Power BI
6 67 (3.04%) Metadata
7 64 (2.90%) Base SAS
8 60 (2.72%) NoSQL
9 55 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
10 44 (1.99%) MySQL
11 43 (1.95%) Redis
12 34 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.50%) MongoDB
14 25 (1.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
15 24 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
16 23 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (0.91%) Big Data
18 17 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 16 (0.73%) DynamoDB
20 15 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 250 (11.33%) Git
2 247 (11.20%) Selenium
3 181 (8.20%) JIRA
4 169 (7.66%) Cucumber
5 156 (7.07%) Jenkins
6 145 (6.57%) Postman
7 83 (3.76%) Cypress.io
8 49 (2.22%) GitLab
9 48 (2.18%) Artifactory
10 45 (2.04%) SpecFlow
11 36 (1.63%) JDeveloper
12 34 (1.54%) WebDriver
13 33 (1.50%) SonarQube
14 32 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 31 (1.41%) Appium
15 31 (1.41%) Visual Studio
16 30 (1.36%) REST Assured
17 27 (1.22%) JUnit
18 26 (1.18%) Maven
18 26 (1.18%) TestRail
General
1 551 (24.98%) Social Skills
2 436 (19.76%) Finance
3 246 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 184 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
5 144 (6.53%) Manufacturing
6 88 (3.99%) Public Sector
7 85 (3.85%) Retail
8 80 (3.63%) Front Office
9 78 (3.54%) Marketing
9 78 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (3.13%) Banking
11 63 (2.86%) Electronics
12 61 (2.77%) Legal
13 56 (2.54%) Law
13 56 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
14 54 (2.45%) Police
15 34 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
16 32 (1.45%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.22%) Tech for Good
18 26 (1.18%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 372 (16.86%) Senior
2 350 (15.87%) Developer
3 270 (12.24%) Software Engineer
4 252 (11.42%) Lead
5 221 (10.02%) Analyst
6 196 (8.88%) QA Engineer
7 132 (5.98%) .NET Developer
8 119 (5.39%) Tester
9 90 (4.08%) Architect
10 89 (4.03%) Project Manager
11 87 (3.94%) Ruby Engineer
12 86 (3.90%) .NET Software Developer
13 79 (3.58%) .NET Software Engineer
13 79 (3.58%) Senior Developer
14 78 (3.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 66 (2.99%) Software Manager
16 65 (2.95%) Programmer
17 64 (2.90%) SAS Programmer
17 64 (2.90%) SAS Statistical Programmer
17 64 (2.90%) Statistical Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (15.00%) .NET
2 298 (13.51%) React
3 187 (8.48%) Node.js
4 166 (7.52%) ASP.NET
5 164 (7.43%) REST
6 161 (7.30%) AngularJS
7 139 (6.30%) HTML
8 128 (5.80%) CSS
9 102 (4.62%) XML
10 93 (4.22%) .NET Framework
11 89 (4.03%) Vue
12 88 (3.99%) ASP.NET Core
13 82 (3.72%) Redux
14 79 (3.58%) ASP.NET Web API
14 79 (3.58%) RESTful
15 77 (3.49%) Web Services
16 60 (2.72%) .NET Core
17 57 (2.58%) JSON
18 54 (2.45%) Kafka
19 45 (2.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 112 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 101 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 83 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 80 (3.63%) Derivative
4 80 (3.63%) Hedge funds
5 78 (3.54%) Fixed Income
5 78 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 66 (2.99%) Life Science
7 62 (2.81%) Equities
8 59 (2.67%) Management Information System
9 45 (2.04%) Mobile App
10 34 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 34 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.09%) Cloud Native
12 24 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
13 23 (1.04%) Blog
14 21 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
15 19 (0.86%) Client/Server
16 18 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 115 (5.21%) Linux
2 90 (4.08%) Windows
3 55 (2.49%) Android
4 53 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 48 (2.18%) Unix
6 32 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.50%) AIX
8 11 (0.50%) Fedora
8 11 (0.50%) HPUX
8 11 (0.50%) Solaris
9 10 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.091%) VMS
15 1 (0.045%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (38.03%) Agile
2 582 (26.38%) DevOps
3 564 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
4 518 (23.48%) Test Automation
5 434 (19.67%) Software Engineering
6 349 (15.82%) CI/CD
7 327 (14.82%) Project Management
8 290 (13.15%) Scrum
9 272 (12.33%) Mentoring
10 250 (11.33%) Microservices
11 221 (10.02%) Computer Science
12 209 (9.47%) Unit Testing
13 203 (9.20%) Test Strategy
14 198 (8.98%) Clean Code
15 196 (8.88%) BDD
16 195 (8.84%) Software Testing
17 192 (8.70%) TDD
18 191 (8.66%) Code Quality
19 188 (8.52%) Continuous Integration
20 185 (8.39%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 446 (20.22%) Java
2 437 (19.81%) JavaScript
3 396 (17.95%) C#
4 357 (16.18%) Python
5 351 (15.91%) SQL
6 165 (7.48%) TypeScript
7 123 (5.58%) Bash
8 115 (5.21%) Ruby
9 113 (5.12%) Go
10 110 (4.99%) Perl
11 64 (2.90%) SAS Macro
12 62 (2.81%) PowerShell
13 55 (2.49%) T-SQL
14 46 (2.09%) C++
15 33 (1.50%) C
16 30 (1.36%) PHP
17 20 (0.91%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.54%) Rust
18 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 393 (17.82%) Degree
2 288 (13.06%) Security Cleared
3 207 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 101 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (3.58%) ISTQB
6 57 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 39 (1.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 38 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 32 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
11 28 (1.27%) ISEB
12 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (1.13%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 17 (0.77%) Azure Certification
16 17 (0.77%) HNC
17 14 (0.63%) HND
18 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
18 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (2.90%) CDISC
2 60 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.63%) PMO
4 45 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 39 (1.77%) Software Quality Assurance
6 20 (0.91%) ISO 9001
6 20 (0.91%) SLA
7 18 (0.82%) GMP
8 15 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.54%) GDPR
10 9 (0.41%) WCAG
11 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.36%) ISO 26262
12 7 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.27%) IASME
14 5 (0.23%) GRC
14 5 (0.23%) ITGC
15 4 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 157 (7.12%) Docker
2 49 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.41%) Firmware
4 9 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.18%) IAG
6 3 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.14%) HDFS
7 2 (0.091%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.091%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.045%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 145 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 72 (3.26%) Terraform
3 63 (2.86%) Ansible
4 18 (0.82%) Packer
5 16 (0.73%) Grafana
6 12 (0.54%) Kustomize
7 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.32%) Argo
8 7 (0.32%) SCCM
9 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (0.23%) Puppet
11 4 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.14%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.045%) cPanel
13 1 (0.045%) Istio
13 1 (0.045%) linkerd
13 1 (0.045%) Podman
Vendors
1 250 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.66%) Oracle
3 108 (4.90%) Google
4 98 (4.44%) SAP
5 43 (1.95%) Splunk
6 27 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.09%) Finsemble
8 21 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 20 (0.91%) AppDynamics
9 20 (0.91%) Red Hat
9 20 (0.91%) VMware
10 19 (0.86%) CyberArk
10 19 (0.86%) TOWER Software
11 18 (0.82%) Databricks
11 18 (0.82%) Sun
12 17 (0.77%) Atlassian
13 16 (0.73%) Dell
14 14 (0.63%) Adobe
15 10 (0.45%) Sage
16 9 (0.41%) IBM