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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 22 September 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Quality Assurance (QA) UK |
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6 months to
22 Sep 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
52 |
51 |
62 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-1 |
+11 |
-6 |
| Permanent jobs citing QA |
6,853 |
8,375 |
8,458 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.93% |
5.03% |
4.79% |
| As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category |
37.03% |
38.27% |
38.80% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
5,216 |
6,542 |
6,083 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,250 |
£31,250 |
£30,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£81,250 |
£77,500 |
£75,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
£42,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
- |
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.
| All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills |
18,506 |
21,885 |
21,797 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.30% |
13.14% |
12.34% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
13,669 |
16,628 |
16,149 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
| 10th Percentile |
£28,000 |
£28,500 |
£27,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£82,500 |
£80,000 |
£77,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
£42,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
- |
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QA
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing QA as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
QA
Salary Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA.
QA
Salary Histogram
The salary distribution of IT jobs citing QA over the 6 months to 22 September 2019.
QA
Top 16 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 22 September 2019.
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
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
-3 |
6,327 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
939 |
| UK excluding London |
+4 |
3,703 |
£45,000 |
- |
728 |
| London |
+1 |
2,969 |
£62,500 |
+4.17% |
291 |
| South East |
-7 |
1,222 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
187 |
| North of England |
-3 |
927 |
£44,624 |
+5.00% |
211 |
| North West |
+15 |
562 |
£43,250 |
-2.81% |
106 |
| Midlands |
+10 |
499 |
£43,500 |
-1.14% |
114 |
| South West |
-5 |
406 |
£43,156 |
+1.54% |
65 |
| West Midlands |
+13 |
288 |
£45,000 |
-5.26% |
77 |
| East of England |
-4 |
281 |
£47,500 |
+5.56% |
71 |
| Yorkshire |
-59 |
249 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
66 |
| Scotland |
+28 |
237 |
£45,000 |
+12.50% |
57 |
| East Midlands |
+6 |
210 |
£40,000 |
- |
37 |
| North East |
+53 |
118 |
£44,812 |
+19.50% |
39 |
| Wales |
-7 |
116 |
£45,000 |
+20.00% |
15 |
| Northern Ireland |
+13 |
30 |
£33,500 |
-36.19% |
7 |
For the 6 months to 22 September 2019, IT jobs citing QA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for QA.
| 1 |
3,787 (55.26%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,838 (41.41%) |
Test Automation |
| 3 |
1,759 (25.67%) |
SQL |
| 4 |
1,611 (23.51%) |
Java |
| 5 |
1,510 (22.03%) |
C# |
| 6 |
1,416 (20.66%) |
Selenium |
| 7 |
1,352 (19.73%) |
Scrum |
| 8 |
1,335 (19.48%) |
Finance |
| 9 |
1,204 (17.57%) |
JavaScript |
| 10 |
1,193 (17.41%) |
DevOps |
| 11 |
1,025 (14.96%) |
.NET |
| 12 |
1,020 (14.88%) |
JIRA |
| 13 |
947 (13.82%) |
BDD |
| 14 |
909 (13.26%) |
Degree |
| 15 |
900 (13.13%) |
Microsoft |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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