Quality Management Job Trends

Quality Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Quality Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 416 433
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 +39
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 395 287 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.62% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.68% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 148 112 299
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,875 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +29.41% -15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Quality Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 70,129 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,378 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -9.09%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quality Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Quality Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Quality Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quality Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quality Management

Quality Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Management over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. 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
Jobs
England -4 340 £45,000 -17.87% 98
UK excluding London +19 300 £45,000 -18.18% 84
North of England -60 95 £55,750 +30.41% 18
Midlands +40 85 £45,000 +12.50% 26
Work from Home +29 81 £50,000 -20.00% 24
London -36 68 £55,000 +10.00% 22
North West +50 58 £60,000 -9.59% 7
West Midlands +22 53 £50,000 +25.00% 20
South East -23 41 £36,500 -41.60% 19
South West -41 33 £41,250 -11.29% 10
East Midlands +12 32 £29,000 -30.95% 6
Yorkshire -107 21 £56,500 +50.67% 8
North East -31 16 £34,500 -28.13% 3
Scotland +30 15 £45,000 -40.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 12 - - 1
East of England -4 11 £40,000 -60.00% 11
Wales -35 8 £25,400 -21.85%

Quality Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 49 (12.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (6.58%) SAP QM
2 22 (5.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (4.81%) SAP ERP
4 8 (2.03%) SAP PP
5 7 (1.77%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.51%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.51%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) Primavera
8 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG-M
8 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 22 (5.57%) Power Platform
2 21 (5.32%) Azure
3 13 (3.29%) AWS
3 13 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 11 (2.78%) GCP
5 7 (1.77%) SaaS
6 5 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.27%) Power Automate
7 3 (0.76%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.51%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.51%) Zapier
9 1 (0.25%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.25%) Collibra
9 1 (0.25%) Dagster
9 1 (0.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.01%) Network Security
2 2 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.25%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.57%) Power BI
2 17 (4.30%) Metadata
3 7 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.27%) Tableau
5 3 (0.76%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.51%) MySQL
6 2 (0.51%) Power Query
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.25%) Big Data
7 1 (0.25%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.77%) JIRA
2 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 186 (47.09%) Social Skills
2 146 (36.96%) Finance
3 127 (32.15%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (25.82%) Manufacturing
5 44 (11.14%) Influencing Skills
6 30 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (7.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 23 (5.82%) Legal
8 21 (5.32%) Retail
9 19 (4.81%) Aerospace
10 17 (4.30%) Banking
10 17 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.28%) Electronics
12 7 (1.77%) Advertising
12 7 (1.77%) Law
12 7 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.77%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.52%) Local Government
14 5 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (18.23%) Head of QA
2 36 (9.11%) Quality Engineer
2 36 (9.11%) Technologist
3 31 (7.85%) Quality Manager
3 31 (7.85%) Senior
4 25 (6.33%) Systems Engineer
5 21 (5.32%) Lead
6 18 (4.56%) Administrator
7 16 (4.05%) Analyst
7 16 (4.05%) Systems Manager
8 12 (3.04%) QA Manager
8 12 (3.04%) QA Officer
9 11 (2.78%) Data Manager
9 11 (2.78%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 11 (2.78%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 10 (2.53%) Audit Manager
10 10 (2.53%) Project Manager
11 9 (2.28%) Support Engineer
11 9 (2.28%) Technical Support
11 9 (2.28%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.81%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (1.77%) LangChain
2 7 (1.77%) LangGraph
2 7 (1.77%) PyTorch
2 7 (1.77%) scikit-learn
2 7 (1.77%) TensorFlow
3 3 (0.76%) Java RMI
4 2 (0.51%) Kafka
4 2 (0.51%) Web Services
5 1 (0.25%) .NET
5 1 (0.25%) ADO
5 1 (0.25%) IDoc
5 1 (0.25%) Playwright
5 1 (0.25%) PySpark
5 1 (0.25%) pytest
5 1 (0.25%) REST
5 1 (0.25%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 79 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.28%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.52%) Cyberattack
5 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.27%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.01%) Blog
7 4 (1.01%) FMCG
7 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.76%) PMI
9 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.51%) Life Science
9 2 (0.51%) Robotics
10 1 (0.25%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.25%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (46.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 133 (33.67%) QMS
3 95 (24.05%) Analytics
4 93 (23.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 91 (23.04%) Root Cause Analysis
6 88 (22.28%) Actionable Insight
7 87 (22.03%) Change Management
7 87 (22.03%) Service Delivery
8 81 (20.51%) PRINCE2
9 76 (19.24%) Customer Experience
10 72 (18.23%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 52 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (12.41%) Roadmaps
13 44 (11.14%) AI
13 44 (11.14%) Decision-Making
14 42 (10.63%) Internal Audit
15 39 (9.87%) Coaching
16 38 (9.62%) ERP
17 34 (8.61%) Project Management
18 33 (8.35%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 13 (3.29%) Python
2 12 (3.04%) SQL
3 9 (2.28%) ABAP
4 1 (0.25%) C#
4 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.25%) Scala
4 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (18.23%) IRCA
2 57 (14.43%) Degree
3 19 (4.81%) DBS Check
4 18 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.28%) Postgraduate
6 8 (2.03%) ACCA
6 8 (2.03%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.77%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.52%) CISSP
8 6 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.01%) CCSP
10 4 (1.01%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.01%) CRISC
10 4 (1.01%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.76%) CCA
11 3 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (47.09%) QA
2 114 (28.86%) ISO 9001
3 87 (22.03%) GDPR
4 51 (12.91%) Data Quality
5 24 (6.08%) Accessibility
6 20 (5.06%) GMP
7 12 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (1.27%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.27%) COSHH
9 5 (1.27%) GxP
9 5 (1.27%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.27%) NIST
10 4 (1.01%) IFRS
11 3 (0.76%) GLP
11 3 (0.76%) Good Clinical Practice
11 3 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.76%) PMO
12 2 (0.51%) GAMP
12 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.01%) Terraform
2 2 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 67 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 47 (11.90%) SAP
3 8 (2.03%) Google
4 7 (1.77%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.76%) Databricks
7 2 (0.51%) Informatica
7 2 (0.51%) Sage
8 1 (0.25%) Genesys
8 1 (0.25%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.25%) TOWER Software