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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 18 January 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Quality Assurance (QA) UK |
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6 months to
18 Jan 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
45 |
57 |
57 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+12 |
0 |
-3 |
| Permanent jobs citing QA |
7,949 |
8,710 |
8,427 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
5.25% |
5.01% |
4.75% |
| As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category |
38.08% |
39.89% |
37.66% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
5,981 |
6,802 |
6,782 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£49,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+1.01% |
+10.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£30,250 |
£30,500 |
£29,263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£77,500 |
£75,000 |
£75,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£42,500 |
£42,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
- |
+6.25% |
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 |
20,874 |
21,837 |
22,375 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.78% |
12.55% |
12.62% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
15,349 |
16,835 |
17,721 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£27,500 |
£27,500 |
£26,875 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£80,000 |
£77,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£42,500 |
£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 18 January 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 18 January 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 |
+10 |
7,381 |
£50,000 |
- |
1,240 |
| UK excluding London |
+11 |
4,113 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
825 |
| London |
0 |
3,614 |
£57,500 |
- |
494 |
| South East |
+14 |
1,469 |
£47,500 |
+7.95% |
229 |
| North of England |
+7 |
864 |
£42,500 |
+1.19% |
222 |
| Midlands |
-4 |
609 |
£42,500 |
- |
135 |
| North West |
-3 |
462 |
£42,500 |
-5.56% |
118 |
| East of England |
0 |
405 |
£45,000 |
- |
87 |
| South West |
+8 |
377 |
£40,000 |
- |
73 |
| West Midlands |
0 |
348 |
£43,250 |
+8.13% |
78 |
| Yorkshire |
+25 |
340 |
£42,500 |
+13.33% |
72 |
| East Midlands |
-9 |
254 |
£42,500 |
-7.61% |
57 |
| Scotland |
+20 |
243 |
£40,000 |
+3.90% |
46 |
| Wales |
+20 |
131 |
£35,000 |
+3.14% |
25 |
| North East |
+5 |
63 |
£38,750 |
-7.74% |
32 |
| Northern Ireland |
-6 |
34 |
£40,000 |
-5.88% |
8 |
For the 6 months to 18 January 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 |
4,370 (54.98%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,310 (41.64%) |
Test Automation |
| 3 |
2,103 (26.46%) |
Java |
| 4 |
1,854 (23.32%) |
SQL |
| 5 |
1,812 (22.80%) |
Finance |
| 6 |
1,808 (22.74%) |
Selenium |
| 7 |
1,743 (21.93%) |
C# |
| 8 |
1,559 (19.61%) |
Scrum |
| 9 |
1,462 (18.39%) |
JavaScript |
| 10 |
1,380 (17.36%) |
Degree |
| 11 |
1,124 (14.14%) |
.NET |
| 12 |
1,076 (13.54%) |
Software Engineering |
| 13 |
1,065 (13.40%) |
JIRA |
| 14 |
998 (12.56%) |
BDD |
| 15 |
952 (11.98%) |
TDD |
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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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