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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 367 354
Rank change year-on-year -58 -13 +148
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 440 341 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.69% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.78% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 223 97 166
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,663 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £43,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £97,700 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £59,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +26.88% -13.49%

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 82,683 43,966 63,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.91% 88.62% 80.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57,515 24,838 36,851
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.37%

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 12 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 12 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 -56 395 £45,000 -23.73% 305
UK excluding London -63 337 £45,000 -23.73% 245
Work from Home -13 90 £50,000 -23.08% 159
North of England -60 90 £52,500 -4.55% 47
Midlands +28 87 £45,000 +2.99% 51
London -30 83 £50,000 -2.44% 89
South East -80 64 £40,000 -37.25% 67
West Midlands +8 62 £50,000 +25.00% 27
North West +33 58 £52,500 -30.00% 23
South West -56 35 £40,000 -20.00% 30
East of England -1 29 £40,000 +8.84% 27
East Midlands -17 25 £42,500 -6.37% 24
Yorkshire -112 20 £53,250 -3.18% 17
Scotland +22 17 £65,000 +31.49% 17
North East -53 12 £34,500 -28.13% 8
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 6
Wales -66 7 £28,392 -40.19% 6

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 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.23%) Confluence
3 1 (0.23%) IIS
3 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 47 (10.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (4.32%) SAP QM
2 16 (3.64%) SAP ERP
3 13 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.59%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.14%) Primavera
5 5 (1.14%) SAP EHS
6 4 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.91%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (0.91%) SAP R/3
7 3 (0.68%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.23%) FastStats
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 44 (10.00%) Azure
2 40 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.91%) AWS
4 17 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 14 (3.18%) GCP
7 6 (1.36%) SaaS
8 5 (1.14%) Smartsheet
9 4 (0.91%) Collibra
9 4 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.91%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.91%) Network Security
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.09%) Power BI
2 23 (5.23%) Metadata
3 20 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (1.82%) Power Query
5 8 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.14%) Tableau
7 4 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (0.91%) GIS
7 4 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.91%) SAP BW
8 3 (0.68%) MySQL
9 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (3.41%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.45%) MLflow
3 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 171 (38.86%) Social Skills
2 130 (29.55%) Finance
3 126 (28.64%) Manufacturing
4 117 (26.59%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (12.05%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (10.00%) Legal
7 43 (9.77%) Aerospace
8 28 (6.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 27 (6.14%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (6.14%) Retail
10 22 (5.00%) Banking
11 19 (4.32%) Electronics
12 16 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (3.41%) Law
14 11 (2.50%) Military
14 11 (2.50%) Public Sector
15 10 (2.27%) Aviation
16 8 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
17 7 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 45 (10.23%) Quality Engineer
2 43 (9.77%) Lead
3 35 (7.95%) Quality Manager
4 34 (7.73%) Senior
5 27 (6.14%) Systems Engineer
6 24 (5.45%) Head of QA
7 21 (4.77%) QA Manager
8 19 (4.32%) Technologist
9 18 (4.09%) Analyst
9 18 (4.09%) QA Engineer
10 17 (3.86%) Administrator
11 16 (3.64%) Data Manager
12 14 (3.18%) Operations Manager
13 13 (2.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 13 (2.95%) QA Officer
13 13 (2.95%) Software Engineer
14 11 (2.50%) Compliance Manager
14 11 (2.50%) IT Manager
15 9 (2.05%) Consultant
15 9 (2.05%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.41%) PyTorch
1 15 (3.41%) scikit-learn
1 15 (3.41%) TensorFlow
2 13 (2.95%) LangChain
2 13 (2.95%) LangGraph
3 12 (2.73%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.14%) EDI
5 3 (0.68%) Java RMI
5 3 (0.68%) Terraform
6 2 (0.45%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (0.45%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.45%) gRPC
6 2 (0.45%) Hugging Face
6 2 (0.45%) Kafka
6 2 (0.45%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.45%) NumPy
6 2 (0.45%) ONNX
6 2 (0.45%) OpenCV
6 2 (0.45%) Pandas
7 1 (0.23%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.14%) Management Information System
2 32 (7.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.41%) Driving Licence
6 13 (2.95%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.95%) PMI
7 11 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.59%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.59%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.36%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.36%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.14%) Blog
13 4 (0.91%) BYOD
13 4 (0.91%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.91%) FMCG
14 3 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (42.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 143 (32.50%) QMS
3 88 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (16.82%) Decision-Making
5 70 (15.91%) Roadmaps
6 65 (14.77%) AI
7 62 (14.09%) Service Delivery
8 58 (13.18%) Analytics
9 57 (12.95%) Root Cause Analysis
10 55 (12.50%) ERP
11 51 (11.59%) Actionable Insight
11 51 (11.59%) Project Management
12 48 (10.91%) Change Management
13 47 (10.68%) Internal Audit
13 47 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (10.23%) Data Governance
14 45 (10.23%) PRINCE2
14 45 (10.23%) Risk Management
15 41 (9.32%) Coaching
16 39 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.36%) SQL
2 27 (6.14%) Python
3 8 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.23%) ABAP
5 1 (0.23%) Perl
5 1 (0.23%) Scala
5 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 110 (25.00%) Degree
2 31 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.14%) IRCA
4 25 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (4.55%) DBS Check
7 15 (3.41%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.95%) HNC
9 12 (2.73%) Postgraduate
10 8 (1.82%) Chartered Engineer
10 8 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.59%) CISSP
11 7 (1.59%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.59%) HND
11 7 (1.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.14%) ACCA
14 4 (0.91%) CCSP
14 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.91%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (35.91%) QA
2 108 (24.55%) ISO 9001
3 64 (14.55%) Data Quality
4 56 (12.73%) GDPR
5 31 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (5.23%) Accessibility
7 18 (4.09%) GMP
8 12 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.82%) ISO 14001
10 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 6 (1.36%) NIST
11 5 (1.14%) ISO 22301
11 5 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.14%) PMO
12 4 (0.91%) AQAP
12 4 (0.91%) Automotive SPICE
12 4 (0.91%) ECSS
12 4 (0.91%) GxP
12 4 (0.91%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 2 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 73 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 53 (12.05%) SAP
3 15 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.73%) Oracle
5 10 (2.27%) Google
6 6 (1.36%) Rockwell
6 6 (1.36%) Siemens
7 5 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.91%) Informatica
8 4 (0.91%) Sage
9 3 (0.68%) NCR
9 3 (0.68%) Veritas
10 2 (0.45%) Avaya
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco
10 2 (0.45%) Databricks
10 2 (0.45%) Genesys
10 2 (0.45%) NEC
10 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.45%) Thales
11 1 (0.23%) EMC