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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 16 November 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Quality Assurance (QA) UK |
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6 months to
16 Nov 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
50 |
58 |
57 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+8 |
-1 |
-3 |
| Permanent jobs citing QA |
8,285 |
8,966 |
9,149 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
5.08% |
4.97% |
4.80% |
| As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category |
38.16% |
39.75% |
37.07% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
6,448 |
6,601 |
7,478 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,000 |
£30,000 |
£30,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£77,500 |
£75,000 |
£77,500 |
| 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 |
21,709 |
22,554 |
24,678 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.32% |
12.51% |
12.94% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
16,374 |
16,870 |
19,497 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£49,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+2.04% |
+7.78% |
| 10th Percentile |
£28,000 |
£27,500 |
£27,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£77,500 |
£77,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£42,500 |
£42,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
- |
+2.41% |
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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 16 November 2018.
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 16 November 2018.
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 |
+8 |
7,733 |
£50,000 |
- |
1,376 |
| UK excluding London |
+13 |
4,375 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
939 |
| London |
-3 |
3,712 |
£60,000 |
+4.35% |
532 |
| South East |
+21 |
1,553 |
£47,500 |
+5.56% |
233 |
| North of England |
+19 |
982 |
£42,500 |
+6.25% |
256 |
| Midlands |
-12 |
581 |
£44,000 |
+3.53% |
147 |
| North West |
-2 |
498 |
£42,500 |
- |
118 |
| South West |
+19 |
439 |
£40,000 |
- |
108 |
| East of England |
+13 |
431 |
£45,000 |
- |
100 |
| Yorkshire |
+39 |
425 |
£42,500 |
+13.33% |
100 |
| West Midlands |
-20 |
316 |
£45,000 |
+12.50% |
80 |
| East Midlands |
-7 |
257 |
£40,500 |
-12.90% |
67 |
| Scotland |
+22 |
237 |
£40,000 |
- |
45 |
| Wales |
+17 |
163 |
£37,500 |
+10.51% |
35 |
| North East |
-3 |
60 |
£40,000 |
- |
38 |
| Northern Ireland |
-14 |
24 |
£40,000 |
- |
15 |
For the 6 months to 16 November 2018, 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 |
4,557 (55.00%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,533 (42.64%) |
Test Automation |
| 3 |
2,179 (26.30%) |
Java |
| 4 |
2,078 (25.08%) |
Finance |
| 5 |
1,962 (23.68%) |
Selenium |
| 6 |
1,888 (22.79%) |
SQL |
| 7 |
1,879 (22.68%) |
C# |
| 8 |
1,665 (20.10%) |
JavaScript |
| 9 |
1,511 (18.24%) |
Scrum |
| 10 |
1,298 (15.67%) |
.NET |
| 11 |
1,265 (15.27%) |
Degree |
| 12 |
1,092 (13.18%) |
BDD |
| 13 |
1,069 (12.90%) |
TDD |
| 14 |
1,053 (12.71%) |
JIRA |
| 15 |
992 (11.97%) |
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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