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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 24 May 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Quality Assurance (QA) UK |
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6 months to
24 May 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
44 |
55 |
62 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+11 |
+7 |
-3 |
| Permanent jobs citing QA |
7,731 |
8,501 |
8,005 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
5.32% |
4.93% |
4.73% |
| As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category |
38.42% |
38.51% |
39.42% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
5,682 |
6,738 |
6,257 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£48,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+3.09% |
+2.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,250 |
£31,250 |
£29,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£76,250 |
£74,050 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£44,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.27% |
+10.00% |
-1.23% |
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 |
20,123 |
22,073 |
20,306 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.86% |
12.80% |
11.99% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
14,593 |
16,983 |
15,885 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£27,500 |
£28,000 |
£26,250 |
| 90th Percentile |
£82,500 |
£80,000 |
£77,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+12.50% |
-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 24 May 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 24 May 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 |
+7 |
7,196 |
£51,500 |
+3.00% |
548 |
| UK excluding London |
+5 |
3,899 |
£45,000 |
+2.27% |
385 |
| London |
+11 |
3,671 |
£60,000 |
+4.35% |
195 |
| South East |
+4 |
1,312 |
£46,000 |
+2.22% |
119 |
| North of England |
-7 |
841 |
£42,500 |
- |
106 |
| Midlands |
+19 |
590 |
£41,000 |
-3.53% |
64 |
| North West |
+7 |
522 |
£45,000 |
-1.64% |
54 |
| South West |
-12 |
397 |
£40,000 |
-5.88% |
29 |
| East of England |
+1 |
360 |
£45,000 |
- |
35 |
| West Midlands |
+14 |
339 |
£40,000 |
-5.88% |
31 |
| Scotland |
+61 |
253 |
£41,500 |
+3.75% |
19 |
| East Midlands |
+19 |
251 |
£42,500 |
+1.19% |
33 |
| Yorkshire |
-58 |
242 |
£42,500 |
+6.25% |
33 |
| Wales |
+15 |
131 |
£41,000 |
+9.33% |
9 |
| North East |
+18 |
77 |
£40,000 |
-4.76% |
19 |
| Northern Ireland |
-8 |
30 |
£42,500 |
-10.53% |
4 |
For the 6 months to 24 May 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 |
4,381 (56.67%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,238 (41.88%) |
Test Automation |
| 3 |
2,042 (26.41%) |
Java |
| 4 |
1,884 (24.37%) |
SQL |
| 5 |
1,630 (21.08%) |
Selenium |
| 6 |
1,607 (20.79%) |
C# |
| 7 |
1,588 (20.54%) |
Finance |
| 8 |
1,580 (20.44%) |
Scrum |
| 9 |
1,286 (16.63%) |
JavaScript |
| 10 |
1,258 (16.27%) |
Degree |
| 11 |
1,095 (14.16%) |
Software Engineering |
| 12 |
1,040 (13.45%) |
JIRA |
| 13 |
1,035 (13.39%) |
.NET |
| 14 |
1,003 (12.97%) |
DevOps |
| 15 |
974 (12.60%) |
BDD |
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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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