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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 20 April 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Quality Assurance (QA) UK |
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6 months to
20 Apr 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
55 |
62 |
61 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+7 |
-1 |
-2 |
| Permanent jobs citing QA |
8,802 |
8,245 |
9,769 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.96% |
4.78% |
4.77% |
| As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category |
38.17% |
39.31% |
36.28% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
7,091 |
6,527 |
8,090 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
£46,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+3.26% |
+2.22% |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,250 |
£29,250 |
£27,750 |
| 90th Percentile |
£75,000 |
£74,700 |
£72,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£42,500 |
£40,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
- |
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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 |
23,058 |
20,974 |
26,925 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
12.99% |
12.16% |
13.16% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
17,889 |
16,596 |
21,322 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
£47,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
- |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£28,000 |
£26,250 |
£26,250 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,000 |
£77,500 |
£75,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£40,500 |
£42,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
+11.11% |
-4.71% |
+6.25% |
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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 20 April 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 20 April 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 |
8,439 |
£50,000 |
+3.09% |
1,268 |
| UK excluding London |
+5 |
4,745 |
£42,500 |
+6.25% |
852 |
| London |
-2 |
3,947 |
£57,500 |
+4.55% |
506 |
| South East |
+14 |
1,572 |
£45,000 |
+9.76% |
224 |
| North of England |
+7 |
1,144 |
£42,500 |
+13.33% |
202 |
| Midlands |
0 |
715 |
£42,500 |
+6.25% |
139 |
| North West |
+10 |
628 |
£45,000 |
+20.00% |
114 |
| East of England |
-5 |
626 |
£45,000 |
- |
123 |
| South West |
+28 |
457 |
£42,500 |
- |
73 |
| Yorkshire |
+18 |
424 |
£40,000 |
- |
73 |
| West Midlands |
-9 |
384 |
£40,000 |
-3.61% |
82 |
| East Midlands |
+10 |
331 |
£45,000 |
+20.00% |
57 |
| Scotland |
-13 |
147 |
£40,000 |
- |
58 |
| Wales |
+36 |
112 |
£38,500 |
-14.44% |
22 |
| North East |
+4 |
93 |
£42,000 |
+20.00% |
15 |
| Northern Ireland |
-4 |
18 |
£47,500 |
-15.56% |
9 |
For the 6 months to 20 April 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 |
4,950 (56.24%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,693 (41.96%) |
Test Automation |
| 3 |
2,296 (26.08%) |
Java |
| 4 |
2,191 (24.89%) |
Finance |
| 5 |
2,135 (24.26%) |
Selenium |
| 6 |
2,114 (24.02%) |
SQL |
| 7 |
1,860 (21.13%) |
C# |
| 8 |
1,774 (20.15%) |
Scrum |
| 9 |
1,630 (18.52%) |
JavaScript |
| 10 |
1,398 (15.88%) |
TDD |
| 11 |
1,331 (15.12%) |
.NET |
| 12 |
1,320 (15.00%) |
BDD |
| 13 |
1,194 (13.57%) |
SDLC |
| 14 |
1,140 (12.95%) |
Degree |
| 15 |
1,139 (12.94%) |
JIRA |
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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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