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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 358 351
Rank change year-on-year -81 -7 +176
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 446 344 556
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.70% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.79% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 251 90 159
10th Percentile £30,134 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £38,625 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £78,005
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,369 £55,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -21.15% +18.28% -10.14%

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 85,482 43,719 62,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.07% 88.75% 81.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58,986 24,656 34,489
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -59 407 £45,000 -10.00% 479
UK excluding London -64 336 £43,369 -21.15% 363
Work from Home -11 100 £50,000 -23.08% 158
London -29 92 £52,500 +5.00% 136
Midlands +20 91 £43,750 +0.13% 59
North of England -81 81 £52,500 -4.55% 81
South East -96 72 £40,000 -38.46% 89
West Midlands +5 65 £45,000 +12.50% 33
North West +22 53 £52,500 -19.23% 42
East of England -3 33 £41,919 +14.06% 49
South West -60 31 £35,000 -10.26% 35
East Midlands -8 26 £42,500 -6.37% 26
Scotland +18 18 £60,000 +21.38% 36
Yorkshire -107 18 £53,250 - 26
North East -58 10 £41,919 -12.67% 13
Wales -73 6 £30,196 -36.39% 10
Northern Ireland -83 4 - - 8

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 14 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) IIS
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 48 (10.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.95%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.69%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (4.26%) SAP QM
2 17 (3.81%) SAP ERP
3 12 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.57%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.12%) Primavera
5 5 (1.12%) SAP EHS
5 5 (1.12%) SAP R/3
6 4 (0.90%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.67%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.22%) FastStats
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.43%) Power Platform
2 49 (10.99%) Azure
3 27 (6.05%) AWS
4 18 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
6 15 (3.36%) GCP
7 7 (1.57%) SaaS
8 6 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.12%) Smartsheet
10 4 (0.90%) Collibra
10 4 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.90%) GitHub
10 4 (0.90%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.67%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.45%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.90%) Network Security
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) Wireless
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.43%) Power BI
2 26 (5.83%) Metadata
3 24 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (2.02%) Power Query
7 5 (1.12%) GIS
7 5 (1.12%) SAP BW
7 5 (1.12%) Tableau
8 4 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.45%) MySQL
10 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.22%) EDMS
11 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.81%) JIRA
2 8 (1.79%) Git
3 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.45%) MLflow
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 164 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 126 (28.25%) Manufacturing
3 113 (25.34%) Finance
4 106 (23.77%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (12.56%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (10.31%) Legal
7 45 (10.09%) Aerospace
8 27 (6.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (6.05%) Retail
9 23 (5.16%) Public Sector
10 22 (4.93%) Banking
11 21 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (4.26%) Electronics
12 19 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (3.36%) Law
14 11 (2.47%) Military
15 10 (2.24%) Aviation
16 9 (2.02%) Fire and Rescue
17 7 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (10.09%) Quality Engineer
2 44 (9.87%) Lead
3 40 (8.97%) Senior
4 35 (7.85%) Quality Manager
5 26 (5.83%) Systems Engineer
6 20 (4.48%) QA Engineer
6 20 (4.48%) QA Manager
7 19 (4.26%) Administrator
7 19 (4.26%) Analyst
8 18 (4.04%) Data Manager
9 17 (3.81%) Technologist
10 14 (3.14%) Compliance Manager
11 13 (2.91%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 13 (2.91%) Operations Manager
11 13 (2.91%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.69%) IT Manager
12 12 (2.69%) QA Officer
13 11 (2.47%) Consultant
13 11 (2.47%) Senior Manager
14 10 (2.24%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.36%) PyTorch
1 15 (3.36%) scikit-learn
1 15 (3.36%) TensorFlow
2 13 (2.91%) LangChain
2 13 (2.91%) LangGraph
3 12 (2.69%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.12%) EDI
5 4 (0.90%) Terraform
6 3 (0.67%) Java RMI
7 2 (0.45%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (0.45%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.45%) gRPC
7 2 (0.45%) Hugging Face
7 2 (0.45%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.45%) NumPy
7 2 (0.45%) ONNX
7 2 (0.45%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.45%) Pandas
7 2 (0.45%) REST
8 1 (0.22%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.23%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.61%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.26%) Driving Licence
4 18 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.91%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.91%) PMI
6 11 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.02%) Operational Technology
8 8 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.79%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.57%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.35%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.12%) Blog
11 5 (1.12%) FMCG
12 4 (0.90%) BYOD
12 4 (0.90%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (42.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 142 (31.84%) QMS
3 94 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (18.61%) Decision-Making
5 73 (16.37%) Roadmaps
6 68 (15.25%) AI
7 58 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (12.78%) ERP
9 52 (11.66%) Project Management
10 51 (11.43%) Service Delivery
11 50 (11.21%) Data Governance
12 49 (10.99%) Coaching
12 49 (10.99%) Internal Audit
13 47 (10.54%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (10.54%) Risk Management
14 43 (9.64%) Analytics
15 42 (9.42%) Agile
16 40 (8.97%) Project Delivery
17 39 (8.74%) ITIL
18 37 (8.30%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 40 (8.97%) SQL
2 28 (6.28%) Python
3 9 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.22%) ABAP
5 1 (0.22%) Bicep
5 1 (0.22%) Perl
5 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.22%) Scala
5 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 119 (26.68%) Degree
2 39 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.71%) DBS Check
6 15 (3.36%) HNC
6 15 (3.36%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.69%) Postgraduate
8 9 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.79%) Chartered Engineer
10 7 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.57%) HND
11 6 (1.35%) ACCA
11 6 (1.35%) CISSP
11 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.12%) 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%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (30.94%) QA
2 89 (19.96%) ISO 9001
3 68 (15.25%) Data Quality
4 34 (7.62%) GDPR
5 33 (7.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (5.38%) Accessibility
7 18 (4.04%) GMP
8 12 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (2.24%) ISO 14001
10 8 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (1.35%) ISO 22301
11 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 6 (1.35%) NIST
11 6 (1.35%) PCI DSS
12 5 (1.12%) PMO
13 4 (0.90%) AQAP
13 4 (0.90%) ECSS
14 3 (0.67%) COSHH
14 3 (0.67%) ISO 26262
14 3 (0.67%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.22%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 78 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.88%) SAP
3 16 (3.59%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.14%) Oracle
5 10 (2.24%) Google
6 8 (1.79%) Rockwell
6 8 (1.79%) Siemens
7 5 (1.12%) Sage
7 5 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.90%) Informatica
9 3 (0.67%) Cisco
9 3 (0.67%) Databricks
9 3 (0.67%) Genesys
9 3 (0.67%) NCR
9 3 (0.67%) Veritas
10 2 (0.45%) Avaya
10 2 (0.45%) NEC
10 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.45%) Thales
10 2 (0.45%) Xero