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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 8 December 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Quality Assurance (QA) UK |
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6 months to
8 Dec 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
56 |
47 |
57 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-9 |
+10 |
0 |
| Permanent jobs citing QA |
6,185 |
8,069 |
8,964 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.65% |
5.08% |
4.99% |
| As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category |
36.43% |
37.41% |
39.56% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
4,832 |
6,201 |
6,716 |
| UK median annual salary |
£52,500 |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
- |
+5.26% |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,250 |
£30,750 |
£30,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£80,588 |
£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 |
16,977 |
21,568 |
22,661 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
12.77% |
13.57% |
12.60% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
12,946 |
16,091 |
17,087 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
| 10th Percentile |
£28,500 |
£27,500 |
£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 8 December 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 8 December 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 |
-4 |
5,713 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
1,068 |
| UK excluding London |
-9 |
3,314 |
£45,000 |
- |
811 |
| London |
-6 |
2,674 |
£62,500 |
+4.17% |
334 |
| South East |
-15 |
1,142 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
214 |
| North of England |
+8 |
798 |
£42,500 |
- |
221 |
| North West |
+16 |
454 |
£42,500 |
- |
101 |
| Midlands |
-9 |
445 |
£42,500 |
-1.16% |
141 |
| South West |
0 |
377 |
£42,500 |
+6.25% |
83 |
| West Midlands |
+11 |
311 |
£45,000 |
+2.27% |
71 |
| East of England |
-6 |
261 |
£51,250 |
+13.89% |
76 |
| Yorkshire |
-21 |
261 |
£42,500 |
- |
83 |
| Scotland |
-9 |
196 |
£43,750 |
+9.38% |
51 |
| East Midlands |
-41 |
133 |
£40,000 |
-3.61% |
70 |
| North East |
+34 |
84 |
£45,000 |
+12.50% |
37 |
| Wales |
-42 |
70 |
£45,000 |
+24.14% |
20 |
| Northern Ireland |
+6 |
35 |
£34,250 |
-14.38% |
7 |
For the 6 months to 8 December 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 |
3,310 (53.52%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,544 (41.13%) |
Test Automation |
| 3 |
1,523 (24.62%) |
SQL |
| 4 |
1,411 (22.81%) |
Java |
| 5 |
1,327 (21.46%) |
C# |
| 6 |
1,285 (20.78%) |
Selenium |
| 7 |
1,273 (20.58%) |
Scrum |
| 8 |
1,155 (18.67%) |
Finance |
| 9 |
1,149 (18.58%) |
JavaScript |
| 10 |
1,096 (17.72%) |
DevOps |
| 11 |
907 (14.66%) |
JIRA |
| 12 |
847 (13.69%) |
.NET |
| 13 |
833 (13.47%) |
Python |
| 14 |
824 (13.32%) |
BDD |
| 15 |
798 (12.90%) |
SDLC |
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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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