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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 429 390
Rank change year-on-year +17 -39 +112
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 443 292 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.65% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 191 101 177
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £98,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -23.73% +11.32% -7.83%

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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -4 385 £45,000 -24.37% 337
UK excluding London +20 347 £45,000 -23.73% 274
North of England -45 105 £52,500 -13.49% 60
Midlands +28 88 £45,000 +7.14% 57
Work from Home -2 86 £50,000 -23.08% 118
London -52 74 £50,000 - 105
North West +57 64 £52,500 -20.89% 37
West Midlands +19 60 £50,000 +25.00% 32
South East -18 56 £36,500 -41.60% 59
South West -25 38 £42,500 -15.00% 28
East Midlands -5 28 £35,000 -19.90% 25
Yorkshire -92 23 £53,250 -3.18% 17
East of England -6 19 £40,000 -11.11% 33
Scotland +29 18 £70,000 +41.61% 24
North East -41 18 £34,500 -28.13% 6
Northern Ireland - 16 - - 11
Wales -57 7 £32,000 -1.54% 7

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 13 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 48 (10.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (5.19%) SAP QM
2 16 (3.61%) SAP ERP
2 16 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.58%) SAP PP
4 5 (1.13%) Primavera
4 5 (1.13%) Q-Pulse
4 5 (1.13%) SAP EHS
5 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.68%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.23%) FastStats
8 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-M
8 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 43 (9.71%) Azure
2 37 (8.35%) Power Platform
3 23 (5.19%) AWS
4 17 (3.84%) Microsoft Purview
5 13 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.26%) GCP
7 6 (1.35%) SaaS
8 5 (1.13%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.13%) Smartsheet
9 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.90%) Collibra
10 3 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.45%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.90%) Network Security
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.35%) Power BI
2 21 (4.74%) Metadata
3 16 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (1.81%) Power Query
6 7 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.13%) Tableau
8 3 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.68%) GIS
8 3 (0.68%) MySQL
8 3 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.23%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (3.39%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 191 (43.12%) Social Skills
2 153 (34.54%) Analytical Skills
3 152 (34.31%) Finance
4 118 (26.64%) Manufacturing
5 39 (8.80%) Organisational Skills
6 38 (8.58%) Legal
7 35 (7.90%) Aerospace
7 35 (7.90%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (6.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 25 (5.64%) Retail
10 18 (4.06%) Banking
10 18 (4.06%) Electronics
11 15 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.26%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.03%) Law
13 9 (2.03%) Military
14 8 (1.81%) Aviation
15 7 (1.58%) Advertising
15 7 (1.58%) Fire and Rescue
15 7 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (16.25%) Head of QA
2 43 (9.71%) Quality Engineer
3 39 (8.80%) Lead
4 32 (7.22%) Quality Manager
5 30 (6.77%) Senior
6 29 (6.55%) Systems Engineer
7 26 (5.87%) Technologist
8 18 (4.06%) Analyst
9 16 (3.61%) QA Manager
10 15 (3.39%) Data Manager
11 14 (3.16%) Operations Manager
12 13 (2.93%) Administrator
13 12 (2.71%) QA Engineer
13 12 (2.71%) QA Officer
14 11 (2.48%) Senior Quality Engineer
14 11 (2.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 10 (2.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.26%) Systems Manager
16 9 (2.03%) IT Manager
16 9 (2.03%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.61%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (2.03%) LangChain
2 9 (2.03%) LangGraph
2 9 (2.03%) PyTorch
2 9 (2.03%) scikit-learn
2 9 (2.03%) TensorFlow
3 3 (0.68%) EDI
3 3 (0.68%) Java RMI
4 2 (0.45%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (0.45%) Kafka
4 2 (0.45%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.23%) CSS
5 1 (0.23%) HTML
5 1 (0.23%) IDoc
5 1 (0.23%) NestJS
5 1 (0.23%) Playwright
5 1 (0.23%) PySpark
5 1 (0.23%) pytest
5 1 (0.23%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 81 (18.28%) Analytical Mindset
2 28 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.93%) PMI
6 11 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.26%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.35%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.13%) Blog
12 4 (0.90%) BYOD
12 4 (0.90%) Culture of Ownership
12 4 (0.90%) FMCG
12 4 (0.90%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.90%) Robotics
12 4 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (49.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 144 (32.51%) QMS
3 103 (23.25%) Analytics
4 101 (22.80%) Service Delivery
5 96 (21.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 95 (21.44%) Actionable Insight
6 95 (21.44%) Change Management
6 95 (21.44%) PRINCE2
7 88 (19.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 78 (17.61%) Customer Experience
8 78 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (16.25%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 69 (15.58%) Roadmaps
11 67 (15.12%) Decision-Making
12 57 (12.87%) AI
13 51 (11.51%) ERP
13 51 (11.51%) Project Management
14 43 (9.71%) Data Governance
15 41 (9.26%) Agile
16 39 (8.80%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.32%) SQL
2 22 (4.97%) Python
3 7 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.13%) ABAP
5 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.23%) Perl
6 1 (0.23%) Scala
6 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (19.86%) Degree
2 73 (16.48%) IRCA
3 26 (5.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (4.06%) DBS Check
5 17 (3.84%) Security Cleared
6 16 (3.61%) PMI Certification
7 14 (3.16%) SC Cleared
8 13 (2.93%) Postgraduate
9 8 (1.81%) Chartered Engineer
9 8 (1.81%) HNC
10 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.35%) CISSP
11 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.35%) HND
12 5 (1.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 4 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.90%) CCSP
13 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (44.47%) QA
2 135 (30.47%) ISO 9001
3 93 (20.99%) GDPR
4 65 (14.67%) Data Quality
5 24 (5.42%) Accessibility
6 21 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (4.29%) GMP
8 9 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.13%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.13%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 5 (1.13%) NIST
10 5 (1.13%) PMO
11 4 (0.90%) COSHH
11 4 (0.90%) GxP
11 4 (0.90%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.68%) GLP
12 3 (0.68%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 2 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 72 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.74%) SAP
3 14 (3.16%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.26%) Oracle
5 9 (2.03%) Google
6 5 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.90%) Informatica
8 3 (0.68%) Databricks
8 3 (0.68%) Sage
9 2 (0.45%) Avaya
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco
9 2 (0.45%) Genesys
9 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.45%) Rockwell
9 2 (0.45%) Siemens
10 1 (0.23%) EMC
10 1 (0.23%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.23%) Remedy